The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Nightmare Before Christmas (also known as Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas) is a 1993 American stop-motion animated musical dark fantasy Halloween-Christmas film directed by Henry Selick, and produced and conceived by Tim Burton. It tells the story of Jack Skellington, the King of "Halloween Town" who stumbles through a portal to "Christmas Town" and decides to celebrate the holiday. Danny Elfman wrote the songs and score, and provided the singing voice of Jack. The principal voice cast also includes Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey, Ken Page, Paul Reubens, Glenn Shadix, and Ed Ivory.
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In 1984, Cinar changed their focus from media distribution to production and moved operations to Montreal, where they concentrated on children's television programming (including "Animal Crackers", "Emily of New Moon", "Mona the Vampire", and "The Wombles"), as well as the English and French dubs of the anime series "Adventures of the Little Koala" and "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and the Spain-originating TV series "The World of David the Gnome", and the English dub of "Ultra Seven". As a production company, Cinar was also involved in the work of "Are You Afraid of the Dark?", "The Busy World of Richard Scarry", "Madeline", "The Real Story of Happy Birthday to You", "The Adventures of Paddington Bear", "Space Cases", "The Shoe People" and its most famous work, "Arthur", "Zoboomafoo" and "Caillou".