Twice Upon a Time

Twice Upon a Time is a 1983 American animated adventure-fantasy-comedy film co-directed by John Korty and Charles Swenson from a screenplay by Korty, Swenson, Suella Kennedy, and Bill Couturié. The first animated film produced by George Lucas, it uses a form of cut-out animation which the filmmakers called "Lumage", involving prefabricated cut-out elements that the animators moved on a light table, emulating stained glass. The film features improvised dialogue and interspersed live-action footage and background stills. The distributor's financial weakness and an editing dispute over profanity contributed to the film's failure upon release and its persistent obscurity, until Warner Archive began to offer it on DVD in 2015.