Nasrudin clip: One Pair of Eyes
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- The animated Nasrudin film, which became The Thief and the Cobbler, is excerpted with an interview with animator Richard Williams. It is unclear how much of the Nasrudin film was completed, as very little of it has been seen, but many shots and ideas from the original film survive in The Thief and the Cobbler- which was written and compiled as a hodgepodge of the best visual ideas from the unfinished Nasrudin film.
Kenneth Williams is the primary (only?) voice heard in this clip.
This is from a documentary series, One Pair of Eyes. The episode is called Dreamwalkers. The narrator is Idries Shah, who translated and wrote a series of Nasrudin books which were illustrated by Richard Williams in the 1960s, leading to this animated project which fell apart when Williams fell out with the Shah family over financial issues.
I like the voice of the look alike ZigZag. "He has admitted during a riorant saying that wise men at these are IGNORANT! IRRAVALUDE AND CONFUSED!"
Nice reupload man.
Me too but he actually said he has admitted going around saying, such wise men as these are IGNORANT! IRRESOLUTE AND CONFUSED!
That would be Kenneth Williams at his finest, also known for the Carry On films and Willo the Wisp. He did get a role in the Thief and the Cobbler as well, but a pretty minor one as Zigzag's minions.
Carry On star Kenneth Williams did the voice for many of these characters.
Wasn’t Kenneth Williams the same actor who narrated another one of Richard Williams’ animations, Squidgie Bod?
Yep.
0:21 the original zigzag
I really wanted to see this movie.
Saw parts of that. I think I'll stick to the re-cobbled cut. Has a fair bit of test footage, but no crappy insert songs and all of the actual animation is Williams' animation!
Bread. Stupid question. AH HA HUA.
Rest In Peace
@janemacross The original movie was in color?
cortyzz420 420 so do you know were is it?
cortyzz420 420 but if it was in color why did they even color it if it was going to be shot in black and white anyways?
@@bluebugaboo3344 This isn’t the actual colored film. The footage shown was a recapture shot on black and white film for a documentary.
what the heck, williams
What is breaaaaaaaad
1:00
@Recedebo ...and then was made even worse than this by Miramax :(
I think at least some of those Elders ended up being Zigzag's minions. I'm positive that last one did.
“Mombasa”
Nasrudin definitely has some Middle Eastern Socrates vibes, with a splash of Aristophanes.
His point is an interesting one: if the five wise men have such differing opinions on the subject of bread, then they probably have differing opinions on what constitutes heresy, which means that they would typically disagree with each other, with regards to claims of heresy. This raises the possibility that the wise men have ulterior motives, against Nasrudin. They want to silence a critic, to maintain their image, and their power.
Technically seven wise men, and they could've won if they followed the answers of the first and/or the second guy
I love how each of the wise men's answers gets increasingly pretentious as they go along, starting with a stuffy but scientifically accurate comment, pious jargon, that one guy who sounds like he just copied the answer from a book, and ending with a hilariously over played non-answer.
there was a 4th one not shown ( the script is available on the Orange Cow blog )
If some footage is found in the future., it might be anything short of a miracle...
Oh, yes. I really want to see more from this film. I know the script for the entire thing is out there, but I really want to see more footage, too.
Link please
@@WillCWilson I second, can I see the script?
0:21 Zigzag Prototype Version
What a waste! Time, effort, money! He worked in close association with Idries Shah head of Sufi movement, who had his brass plate on the studio door & whose brother had an office at the studio & was director. I gather Omar ran off with funds relating to the studio - I think Bob Balsar told me that when he was in Melbourne lecturing on the Y. Sub. Production years ago. Bob updated me on people who were around then, Dick, his animators & members of the Sub crew, who Dick viewed as "opposition".
2:20 "___ excellent question! I, for one, know it to be none other, than ___ dough..."
"A vexed question. I, for one, know it to be none other than baked dough!"
It is extraordinary how they improved this to be the thief and the cobbler
LMAO - I still remember the words - worked on this in '67 ... it was great fun - shame this isn't in colour.
You worked on Nasrudin?
Wait what, you worked on this??
Con-Few-Zed 0:36🤣? That’s got to be the funniest mispronunciation of the word: Confused, that I’ve ever heard since the Dark Haired Nameless Replacement of Peter from Tommy Wiseau’s The Room had mispronounced the word: Sensitive like this (Sens-A-Tive), I tell ya' Richard Williams-Animation Fans what.
The way that Richard Williams animated the movement of long fingers is so cool.
Wow, that is really cool. Must have been an awesome experience. I would love to see this in color too, that would be spectacular!
If only the rest of the wise men decided to follow the answers of the first two wise men instead of making their own answers, then nasrudin would've actually been executed instead of them.
I like how you can see features of the characters that are later used for The Thief and the Cobbler
It's also funny how thief was made and supposed to be in this movie, and his design is completely identical to his TTATC appearance.
@@SandzhievErdnihe likes traveling. From nasrudin to his own feature film (the thief and the cobbler) and then to the position of CEO in Electronic Arts
It's a such shame that Nasrudin film was never got made and instead turned into Thief and the Cobbler
WOW - I didn't know he scrapped the project - he brought someone all the way over from Canada to teach me to trace in colour (bloody awful job I tell you!) I am not exactly precision incarnate!! As far as I knew all of the Nasrudin films were completed - I wonder if they came out under Errol le Cain's name? He did so much work on them ......
The Nasrudin film was completed?
@@Peter-Luior yes there was apparently 3 hours of completed footage made for the film.
@@diettomato312 where are those 3 hours?
@@chickenflavor9880 there was a falling out between Richard Williams and and the owner of nasrudin. They lost the rights to the characters except the thief. Because of that the other than this bread scene the rest of it is basically lost or held by the nasrudin owners. However there were a lot of scenes in the movie that were reworked to be in the thief and the cobbler
Although I probably shouldn’t have said completely finished more that there was that many hours of animation they had. According to the composer (I think the composer anyway) he saw the footage and thought it was great but didn’t really flow like a actual movie and more of just many different stories in one movie
2:49 ngl, this last sage has a sorta Alan Rickman vibe in his voice.
I just noticed that Dick designed Anwar on Kenneth Williams's apearence! Kinda strange choice, considering Vincent Price was already cast as him. Or maybe there's something i'm missing here.
Kenneth Williams was playing the role at this point.
Is there a color version of this film?
0:21 the prototype zigzag of the real zigzag in 1995
I love this style
LOL - yes, initially @ 77 Dean Street Soho and then @ 13 Soho Square, until 1968 - amazing times - then I came to Australia and became a nurse which is what I always wanted to do - not nearly so glamorous!
Kenneth Williams voice stands out in the beginning! Infamy Infamy they've alllll got it in for me!
yooooo what's up with proto-zigzag
What year was it made
1964
The voices are incredibly annoying.