Comments on: The best of YouTube (to date)?

The best of YouTube (to date)?

taosbat — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 19:58:57 -0800

The Thief And The Cobbler. Richard Williams via Garrett Gilchrist. The best of YouTube (to date)? You decide. Want some animated M.C. Escher, Rube Goldberg mayhem, magic, despair, true love, a happy ending...and more? Click the link and try the "Play All Videos" link on the right (17 segments make up the whole). Cast and Crew. If you categorically hate YouTube links, pass it by. via

By: ArsncHeart

ArsncHeart — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 20:11:52 -0800

Thank god SOMEone decided to recover this amazing film. I'll savor every grainy clip until someone glues together and burns a bootleg. Excellent post.

By: pantsrobot

pantsrobot — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 20:30:23 -0800

The story behind the movie: [...]It's taken from the Miramax version, the Calvert version, the Williams workprint, and other sources that he discovered. The quality, as you would expect, is highly variable. There are scenes taken from a pan & scan DVD, painstakingly overlayed and synchronized with the lesser-quality but CinemaScope ratio workprint. There are scenes that are only storyboards. There are scenes where a character's mouth has been re-animated by hand to synchronize with the original dialog, or lack thereof. It is a tremendous piece of work, the restoration of one man's labor of love, that became another man's labor of love. Restoration info

By: arcticwoman

arcticwoman — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 20:37:18 -0800

I used to own this movie, but it got lost somewhere along the way. Sad, really.

By: arcticwoman

arcticwoman — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 20:39:17 -0800

This seems to be a very different version than the one I had as a child...

By: taosbat

taosbat — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 20:45:43 -0800

Hi, arcticwoman, it's the Recobbled Cut, enjoy!

By: jimmy

jimmy — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:22:54 -0800

this was on myspleen a while ago. nice animation, but pretty lame otherwise.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:36:56 -0800

The 3d translation being done is truly amazing for being hand drawn. Wow.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:41:19 -0800

and now youtube is down for maintence.

By: ArsncHeart

ArsncHeart — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 00:45:01 -0800

It's still worth the wait to check out -and not, "lame otherwise".

By: graventy

graventy — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 04:42:31 -0800

This was posted on usenet a few weeks back, but I haven't gotten a chance to watch it yet. Glad to see it's on youtube.

By: vkxmai

vkxmai — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 05:47:55 -0800

I've seen this recobbled cut about six times with different groups of friends after it was announced on Something Awful dot com several months ago. It is really well-done and the writing is funny too!

By: Sticherbeast

Sticherbeast — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 06:58:21 -0800

AWESOME. Thanks!

By: jimmy

jimmy — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 07:12:36 -0800

It's still worth the wait to check out -and not, "lame otherwise". yep, it is. Sorry.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:07:28 -0800

i started watching this last night--just amazing (then youtube went down for maintenance)...i can't wait to finish tonight : >

By: rafter

rafter — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:27:52 -0800

A couple of the YouTube commenters point out torrented versions (at Pirate Bay &c.) but I haven't turned up anything. Is there a high-res torrent floating around somewhere?

By: redsparkler

redsparkler — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 10:02:14 -0800

I'd just like to mention I spent quite a while at these links. And I dragged other people down with me. It was quite the evening around here. "Hey! Did you read about the extra scenes he found?!" "Dude! You've never actually seen the movie! How can you be that excited about the extra scenes?" But we were excited. And we haven't even watched the recobbling yet.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:44:08 -0800

torrent link

By: taosbat

taosbat — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 15:46:11 -0800

Thanks for the torrent link, amberglow. I'm glad y'all liked the movie.

By: graventy

graventy — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 22:36:31 -0800

Just finished watching the DVD. Damn. That was fantastic.

By: dorian

dorian — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 08:40:14 -0800

gawd I hate youtube so much. I've nothing against video fpps, but flash pisses me off. nb: the torrent linked by amber is officially sanctioned by the dude that did this restoration. can't wait til I can burn and watch the dvd in a few hours...

By: taosbat

taosbat — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 10:39:30 -0800

Hmmm... I'm having trouble d/l with bittorrent. I installed bittorrent just to get this. I d/l a different torrent just to test it and that worked. I've looked at the bittorrent help pages but didn't find anything that seemed useful. I get a little of it but then it just seems to die. Can anyone offer any suggestions?

By: taosbat

taosbat — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 13:56:40 -0800

Oh, the trouble seems to be in my satellite modem...service call ensuing.