I am humbled by this film and the story of Richard Williams, which rivals the sad tale of Erich von Stroheim's tormented production GREED. The good news: most of his masterpiece exists and it can be seen. AVOID AT ALL COSTS the versions you may find in "legitimate" locations... these are bastardized, cut, and filled with inferior, cheaply done filler-scenes without the input of the man who had been slowly crafting the film at a low simmer for three decades! I have just witnessed, via a poor quality bootleg VHS tape, this utter masterpiece which surely stands over all the animated films I've seen, and the vast majority of live-action, too. Gone are the songs, gone are the celebrity voices, and all of the violence reinstated. This site's claim that over 1000 on-screen deaths are present is probably on the mark - whole crowds meet their doom in painstakingly animated sequences. It was also in the correct aspect ratio.
Mr. Williams: please get your version out somehow - even with some sequences supplemented by storyboard sketches or without color in spots, this is better that anything Pixar has ever even done.
Mr. Williams: please get your version out somehow - even with some sequences supplemented by storyboard sketches or without color in spots, this is better that anything Pixar has ever even done.