Vomiting Fountainhead from Nightmare Before Christmas

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Jun 11th, 2010
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Profiles in History Hollywood Auction 40
 
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1038. Vomiting Fountainhead from The Nightmare Before Christmas. (Buena Vista, 1993) The screen-used iconic Vomiting Fountainhead appears in several sequences in NMBC, as the centerpiece of the scenes, and the center of Halloweentown's public square. It is large, standing 24" tall, and made of durable hard casting foam, fiberglass with resin, polymer clay, and a very strong steel rod at its core. Lighting on the show borrowed heavily from impressionistic theater sets, using artfully placed strokes of white paint to strengthen the already high contrast lighting scheme. You can see a hole deep in the the throat that you can fit a finger into; it was the registration point for the green water animation cycle. During a shot, animators changed out a series of clear green plastic sculpts representing a stream of water. The fountainhead has been in the personal collection of the show's director of photography since NMBC wrapped. It has had one wing, and one ear replaced by the owner, with a minimal few dots of black touch-up; otherwise, it is just as it was when it finished its last shot. Mounted on a custom wooden base.

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