by ctlw83 » Thu Dec 05, 2013 12:52 pm
I am actually thinking about doing a fan version of the stop-motion film The Nutcracker Fantasy from 1979. I wasn't aware until recently that the Japanese version had some brief extensions to some of the scenes and would love to take the English cast version and try to combine them. The only sources out there are VHS. I will have to do some research regarding VirtualDub in terms of which filters would work best to restore the image of both versions as best as possible and then try to sync them as best as I can if I were to do that.
Anyway, it is a very interesting piece of stop-motion animation from 1979. The story revolves around Clara, as in the Nutcracker ballet, however, the movie is more based on the book, albeit loosely.
Not the most memorable of Christmas/Holiday films out there, and a tad creepy. I would not suggest showing this to younger children as parts would probably scare them.