The Thief enters the War Machine, Restoration Comparison, The Thief and the Cobbler
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The Thief enters the War Machine, Restoration Comparison, The Thief and the Cobbler
Restoration by Garrett Gilchrist
Wow, I did not expect this film being restored further. This looks great!
Wait, is this the work you did for RCv4, or are you still working on it? If you are still restoring and improving, then you are a LEGEND. Thank you for all your hard work, regardless!
I looked at the Recobbled Cut Mark 4, and the screen on the top is the one in that version, meaning that he is still restoring it.
I am not doing a Recobbled Cut Mark 5, but I have decided to restore a few additional shots that I didn't get round to in 2013.
@@TheThiefArchive can I ask why?
Love the work you did into this, and I read your interview on that forum back in the day, so much pasion went into the project. Thanks!
AMAZING WORK !! Mabey Disney will see this and perhaps even fund the project further. you have done a great job cleaning it up yet still keeping the original intended look.
It's much improved now, well done
Beautiful restoration! Can't wait to see more!
Question: Who did Richard Williams base Zig Zag off of? I never found the video where he mentioned who it was.
Vincent Price, and the film's original producer Omar Shah.
@@TheThiefArchive Thanks
Awesome!
@TheThiefArchive don’t mind if you upload a higher quality version of the pencil and layout tests? I can’t see what is on them!
I think everything along those lines is at archive. org (ocpmovie channel) somewhere.
yes yes yes
I never cease to be amazed by the sheer amount of specks and kaka you're able to whisk away.
Must’ve been a nightmare fixing the film scratches but avoiding the flies.
The film is also usually animated on "ones" so I ended up restoring (repainting) every frame very carefully by hand here, and in a lot of my other work on this channel.
@@TheThiefArchive That's so awesome, dude. You're a legend for doing this lol
Who knows what program he used to remove the dirt from the film
A lot of people use Photoshop and save the individual frames as TIFF or PNG files.
@@ProfessorChocolateCake thanks
I did use Photoshop in this case. Sometimes PFClean as well, and other people I worked with on Raggedy Ann reel one used Phoenix.
Beautiful work sir
I wonder if you could get your hands on the rock and rule film, i would love to see a restoration of that
I found and released a soundtrack for Rock & Rule to Archive. (And that's the source for literally anyone posting certain songs from that soundtrack now.)
Otherwise, very little film is known to exist for Rock & Rule, and all of it is on Blu-Ray. (The "Ring of Power" cut of the film in HD, workprint sections of the beginning and end of the film, and the Canadian Cut as SD video.)
@@TheThiefArchive Thanks for highlighting that! I've enjoyed the fuzzy cassette version of "Triumph" since it was found, white noise and all. So hearing your crisper audio of it is a treat!
Thank you for doing such a service to these varied films.
@Oecobius33 I am the source for the full cassette versions of Triumph and Invocation Song, in any form ... (sourced from a journalist who received a rare review copy back in the day) ... sadly the cassette source was damaged after a certain point, becoming mono and lower quality. Current noise reduction software was used to improve the quality, but it's never going to be amazing. I also included all the music videos I was able to find, which were left off Blu-Ray/DVD releases for rights reasons.
Nice one
Woooow~! :D This is truly an honor to Richard Williams. God Bless him and his work.
I didn’t know what the difference was at first until I realised that all the graininess and dust had been removed from the final shot.
You're doing incredible work!
Do you ever plan on uploading a higher quality version of the original workprint?
You're thinking of "A Moment In Time," the later unfinished workprint, which the Academy (AMPAS) owns but I don't.
The HD 35mm film material in the Recobbled Cut MK4 is from other, earlier sources. (And comprises about 1/3rd of the film, plus some deleted scenes.)
I do not have access to 35mm prints of any complete version of the film, such as "A Moment In Time," "Arabian Knight," or "The Princess and the Cobbler."
These are very rare, partly because the film did not receive a large-scale theatrical release in any form, and has never had a home video release in high quality.
"A Moment In Time" was Richard's own copy of the workprint, and was not widely known to exist until 2013 or so. Richard Williams had not spoken about the film for twenty years at that point, but began screening this version after the relative success of the Recobbled Cuts.
I have uploaded most of my sources and materials in some form to the Ocpmovie channel at Archive. org.
So this project is basically finished as far as your involvement is concerned and over time other people have seen this work and it's a legend in the animation field.
If there's anything that still needs to be worked on I think it should be community animated. Surely there are enough artists willing to pay this movie an honor by finishing it.
Hopefully we can have both versions available. The scratches have a considerable beauty to them and give a real feeling of watching a genuine celluloid movie in a theatre (though it may be true we could do with somewhat less of it), and it's never good when an image is too pristine. Texture is beauty.
The film, in its Recobbled form, has about ten minutes of unfinished scenes and a lot of imperfections. It's important to do this sort of restoration to make the film easy to watch and accessible. In the Recobbled Cut, every source is altered in some way, and most shots have been restored and reworked for a better viewing experience that more closely resembles the director's intent.
they shoulda added the thief monologue. Seriously his dialogue was pure golden balls.
Nah. It's better without it.