Nightmare Before Christmas, The

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From Disney and creative genius Tim Burton comes THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, a fun-filled musical fantasy of Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, who discovers the joy of Christmas Town and decides to fill Santa’s boots — with hilarious results. Featuring a marvelous mix of characters and 11 ghoulishly captivating songs by Danny Elfman — it’s frightful fun for the whole family!|THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS is the first full-length stop-motion animated film ever created.|The movie contains more than 227 animated characters.|Santa Claus’ head has more than 50 different working parts, and Jack has more than 400 separate interchangeable heads, each handcrafted with a different facial expression.|The smallest working puppet in the movie is a doll from the “real world” Jack visits that is only one inch long.|Sally is wearing a real miniature dress laid on top of foam latex so that the fabric doesn’t move too much on screen.|At the height of production, the animators produced only 70 seconds of finished film per week.|To create Halloweentown’s twisted look, the design artists often made their sketches using their nondrawing hand.