The Black Cauldron - Disney's Halloween Masterpiece

PATREON: bit.ly/2GhaUMJ TWITTER: bit.ly/2FvQGBq DISCORD: bit.ly/2NFLQRA RE-UP OF THE RE-UP BUT THIS TIME IT'S STAYING THANK YOU TO THE GOOD FOLX AT DISNEY FOR CLAIMING THIS THREE TIMES EDIT: LITERALLY JUST NOTICED THAT I SAID 17TH CENTURY BUT I MEANT 16TH CENTURY WHEN I WAS TALKING ABOUT HENRY VIII I HAVE NO IDEA HOW I MISSED THAT IN MY PROOF READ LMFAO I AM SO SORRY

>Disney >pretends black cauldron doesn't exist >someone makes a video about it >'that's ours.exe' >copyright claim >still pretend movie doesn't exist

Despite its flop in America, the film was very successful in Japan. It's even been suggested that the design of "The Legend of Zelda" video games was inspired by this film.

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” -G.K. Chesterton, whose quote was put at the beginning of the Coraline book

>John enters editor's room "John, what are you doing" "John" "John stop" "John"

The author of the books, Lloyd Alexander, actually really liked the Movie because "it was totally unlike my story, but had the spirit." So he may have been with you on that accuracy thing Breadsword.

Disney: "We don't care about The Black Cauldron" Also Disney: "We're going to sue you into oblivion if you use footage from The Black Cauldron for what's clearly fair use" makes sense

It legitimately upsets me, like very deeply, how eviscerated this film is. It angers me because even without this video essay, watching the film by itself you can pick out how disjointed and bizarre the plot it, how the characters seem to be hollow shells when they weren't in the original cut, and the huge potential that this movie had. I think what irritates me the most is that even Walt himself complained that he had branded his animation so successfully, that he was only allowed in the court of public opinion to make light-hearted fairy tales and nothing else. While watching To Kill a Mockingbird, Walt was quoted as saying "That's the kind of movie I wish I could make!" Even in the early films, you can see Walt trying to push the boundaries set for them. This movie comes along after a massive slump after Walt's death, and it was a golden opportunity to not only reignite the public passion for Disney, but also kindof redirect what Disney animation was about. The animation could still be amazing, the plot and characters memorable, but the movie could appeal to more people than just children and annoying helicopter parents. The first rated-R Disney film? That sounds great! And anyone who says "Disney would've hated The Black Cauldron's original form," I completely disagree. Remember, even Walt himself wanted to branch out and make more mature material. But then dumb parents whined that it was too violent, and this movie gets destroyed in editing, by some guy who has no idea how animation works and has not earned the respect of Disney's animators to begin with, and completely rips it to shreds. It's so incredibly disappointing. This alone is why we still need 2-D animators. I don't think anyone would be upset if all that deleted content was reanimated back into this film. Any of it that is "lost," just have animators redraw it and match it to the film. Other than "money" and "we don't care," there is really no logical reason why this shouldn't happen.

can we all just agree on one thing that John Hurt was the perfect casting choice for the horned king. that character and his voice terrifies me to this day

this movie is a wholeass dungeons and dragons campaign

TWELVE MINUTES OF COMPLETED ANIMATION -- GONE? For the unaware, at 12 frames per second (standard for traditional animation), that means 8640 completed, hand drawn images, with all the sounds synced up and all the effects baked in, were just.... gone. If this film was done at 24 frames per second, or had sequences of 24 mixed in, that could be almost double the number! I can't imagine that.

THe fact that the animation team had to suffer so much through this is truly awful. This film, despite its short and "simple" premise, is one of my favorite works because of how many different techniques are used int eh animation, as well as the beautiful backgrounds and the effort put into movement for characters and clothing. The fact that their new "bosses" were making such ludicrous demands is truly disheartening.

Cutting 12 minutes of hand drawn frames of animation is a crime against humanity, on par with cancelling a critically acclaimed cartoon series after only, if not even, 1 season. If the cuts still exist, I would pay full price for a full release or Blu-ray of the uncut movie, even though I have only been made aware of this movie's existence 2 hours ago. I'm a sucker for dark fantasy, and this film has my full attention. #ReleaseTheCut #FleshMelting

Too bad there isn't a directors cut of this

Is it too late to re-release the black cauldron, but with all the original scenes, dialogue, and animations that were cut out and changed? That would honestly be really awesome. I think it needs to be done.

I am Welsh and Welsh is my first language. I watched this when I was a kid and I had no idea it was Welsh because of course they got voice actors who couldn’t pronounce the Welsh names. So sad considering this is the closest ‘The Mabinogion’ will ever get to having a mainstream film adaption. The source material for this film, The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander was heavily inspired by them. ‘Prydain’ is LITERALLY the Welsh word for ‘Britain’. God. So sad how Welsh mythology in general is either forgotten about or is amalgamated into being ‘Arthurian’ legends so England can claim them too. 🙄 I hate it.

My uncle was an animator for Disney, and he was involved in The Black Cauldron. The Horned King is fucking amazing. There were mis-steps yes, but I think it was a beautifully brilliant, creepy movie that was underrated. And not just because of the family significance.

It's ironic that Disney is forcing you to recut a video about a film that was recut.

The Black Cauldron didn't almost kill Disney, Katsinberg did. By trying to suppress the full potential of this movie and make it another "Disney kids film,"Katsinberg went against everything the Disney company was. Every Golden age Disney movie was a masterpiece because it pushed boundaries and brought something new to animation. Disney created movies that were so intense in visuals,music and tone that he could control the exact emotion that he wanted the audience to have scene by scene. For Katsinberg to no only completely missunderstand this key to Disney movies,but to ignor it and generalize the movies to make a money making formula, clearly shows his short comings as a Disney leader. Thank goodness The Black Cauldron out survived him, even though it could never be what it once was.

Ah yes, my favorite Halloween movie Happy feet.