Tim Burton's Hansel and Gretel (1982 Short Film)



On October 31, 1983, Disney aired a short film entitled "Hansel and Gretel", directed by (the now acclaimed) Tim Burton; it was the second short he ever made. The short is a Japanese style take on Grimm's story of the same name, and is live action (for the most part). Different reports are given on the length of the short, some quoting 45 minutes, some only 15-30 minutes, although the official running-time is currently undetermined.

The short has never aired on TV again since that one Halloween night in 1983, and the only other times it has been shown publicly were at a Tim Burton retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (in late 2009 to early 2010), and the "Tim Burton L'Exposition" at the Cinémathèque Française, Paris (in August 2012). The French exhibition had borrowed a copy of the film from the LA County Museum of Art (who, prior to the exhibition, released a single screenshot of the short). The film has not yet surfaced online, and is highly sought after by collectors.