10 Movies That Had An Insane Amount Of Attention To Detail

When Richard Williams started production of the Thief and the Cobbler in 1964, it was intended to be his animated masterpiece and he fully intended to have every single frame of the film drawn and animated to perfection by hand. Whilst this meant thousands upon thousands of drawings were required for the film, the resulting footage was spectacular and it rivals some of stuff produced on computers today.

However, with such a painstaking production process and Williams’ tendency to keep changing things until it was perfect, no studio was particularly keen to back him. Instead, Williams took on other jobs, such as ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit?’, to self-finance his film. After 20 or so years of on-off production, Williams finally managed to land some backing from major studios, with the promise to deliver his hand-drawn masterpiece on time. Sadly, after 30 years of production, Williams still couldn't finish the film.

Rather than the expected magnum opus, The Thief And The Cobbler instead turned out to be somewhat of a tragic failure as the film was taken from Williams by the studios due to his failure to complete the film on time. The film was hastily completed by another director and was released to very little attention. Luckily, the film’s reputation has been rehabilitated in recent years due to high-quality fan edits faithful to Williams' vision.