Persistence of Vision

It was to be the greatest animated film of all time Not just an eyeopener but a gamechanger Richard Williams demanded nothing less investing nearly three decades into his movie masterpiece From as early as 1964 he ploughed most of the profits right back into his pet project a feature inspired by the Arabian Nights and provisionally known as Mullah Nasruddin He assembled a team of inspired young artistsand brought in the best Hollywood craftsmen to teach themand devised what would be the most elaborate kaleidoscopic mindboggling visual sequences ever committed to celluloid Years passed Potential financiers came and went Work continued But it was only after Roger Rabbit that Williams had a studio budget to corroborate the munificence of his imagination