The Troubled History of The Nightmare Before Christmas

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A deep dive into the tedious development history and making of Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas. Where did the idea come from? Why did it take over 10 years to get made? How did it take over 2 years to actually make? Was Tim Burton the director? We’ll explore all of this and more! PRIMARY INFORMATIONAL SOURCES: The Making of Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas (Laserdisc) Special thanks to Dr Catjail Productions for ripping the laserdisc © The Walt Disney Company Burton On Burton - © Farrar, Straus and Giroux Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas Visual Companion - David A. Bossert - Publisher: Disney Editions © 2023 Disney Enterprises, Inc. The Film, The Art, The Vision: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas - Frank Thompson - Publisher: Hyperion New York © The Walt Disney Company The Art of Tim Burton - Publisher: Steeles Publishing - © 2009 Steeles Publishing YouTube Sources: ‘Luau’ - Tim Burton & Jerry Rees Part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83bJ8UuwOAU Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S11xdIeOZJs Part 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk0_gbXcc9Y Producers VS Animators Volleyball Game - Randy Cartwright https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=x51NFT0-e70 The Fox and the Hound Wrap Party 1981 - Randy Cartwright https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8onL4lkpsfY Backstage At Disney Part 3, 1983 - © The Walt Disney Company - Originally Uploaded by The Thief and the Cobbler Archive Official, Garrett Gilchrist - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8KB6bKQqGU&t=1s ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONAL SOURCES: https://www.awn.com/animationworld/conversation-john-musker https://stopmotionmagazine.com/history-stop-motion-nutshell/ https://mouseplanet.com/the-making-of-tim-burtons-the-nightmare-before-christmas-part-one/6641/ https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/tim-burtons-early-disney-days/ https://www.librarypoint.org/blogs/post/stop-motion-history/#:~:text=The%20history%20of%20stop%20motion,the%20movements%20of%20circus%20acrobats. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stop_motion_films https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Selick https://blog.shotdeck.com/new-shots/the-secrets-of-henry-selick/ https://filmschoolrejects.com/how-go-motion-animation-works/ https://dvdizzy.com/henryselick-interview2.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vsvOYf_YIw https://www.businessinsider.com/the-nightmare-before-christmas-behind-the-scenes-screenwriter-caroline-thompson-2020-12 https://www.thedailybeast.com/henry-selick-on-directing-the-nightmare-before-christmas/ https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/The-Nightmare-Before-Christmas-filming-in-SF-16714266.php https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/the-nightmare-before-christmas-puppet-fabrication-part-2/ https://www.joelfletcher.com/creative-process/?post=skellington-production-incident https://theasc.com/articles/nightmare-before-christmas https://www.stopmotionworks.com/stopmosoftwr.htm https://cinema.com/people/007/066/henry-selick/ https://the-nightmare-before-christmas.fandom.com/wiki/Behind_The_Scenes The Holiday Movies That Made Us: The Nightmare Before Christmas © NETFLIX We Know Jack Show podcast - https://weknowjackshow.libsyn.com I Am Running Down the Long Hallway of Viewmont Elementary - Chris Zabriskie - https://chriszabriskie.bandcamp.com (The rest of the attributions can be found in the video’s end credits, as they were far too long for the description)