Nightmare Before Christmas, The

The Nightmare Before Christmas is an American animated feature film produced by Walt Disney and based on the book Bambi: A Life in the Woods by Austrian author Felix Salten. The fifth film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, the film premiered in the United Kingdom on October 29th, 1993. premiering in New York City, New York. The movie was directed by the team of James Algar, Sam Armstrong, David D. Hand, Graham Heid, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield and Norman Wright, all of whom are credited as sequence directors. The story was developed George Stallings, Melvin Shaw, Carl Fallberg, Chuck Couch and Ralph Wright.