American Cinematographer - December 1999 - 58

With

Sleepy Hollow, director Tim Burton lends his
unique creative sensibility to the tale of Ichabod Crane
and the Headless Horseman.

Interview by
Unit

Stephen Pizzello

photography by Clive Coote
boy who

mad-scientist
dog. After
this initial foray into live-action filmmaking, Burton left Disney to pursue
his own path. His first full-length
feature, the surreal comedy Pee-Wee's
Big Adventure, was a hit at the box
office, and paved the way for a
succession of imaginative efforts:
Beetlejuice (see AC April 1988),

young

uses

methods to revive his dead

Batman,

Edward
Scissorhands,
(AC July '92), The

Batman Returns

Nightmare Before Christmas (as
producer, see AC Dec. '93), Ed Wood
and Mars Attacks! (AC Dec. '96).
Burton's latest picture, Sleepy

Hollow, is based

on Washington
Irving's classic 1819 short story The
Legend of Sleepy Hollow, but inven¬
tively retools the legend of Ichabod

an

all

Hound and The Black Cauldron.

Rith his ke n pictorial
Raised in Burbank, California,

Burton grew up on a steady diet of
classic horror films, and spent much

youth drawing outlandish
and illustrations (including

cartoons

projects
While

as

toiling

Disney,

at

Burton made his directorial debut

with the
which

stop-motion short Vincent,

told the

autobiographical

story of a young boy who wants to
emulate his hero, horror icon
Vincent

Price.

The

film

won

a

Crane and the Headless Horseman.

Inspired by his affection for classic
horror films, the director sought to
imbue the production with a look
and feel that recalled the spirit of
England's Hammer Studios. He took
a break from his
busy postproduc¬
tion schedule to speak with AC about
his creative strategy on
well

as

number of awards,

tor

Lubezki, ASC, AMC.

including two
Chicago Film Festival, and

marked Burton

ished local

tracking.

as

a

photography Emmanuel

talent worth
American

His next

project for Disney,
Frankenweenie, was an amusing
black-and-white

of

the project, as

his collaboration with direc¬

from the

an

anti-littering poster that embell¬
garbage trucks for an
entire year). He attended the Cal Arts
Institute on a Disney fellowship, and
later joined Walt Disney Studios as
54 December 1999

his talents to
The Fox and the

such

things fantastic, Tim
Burton is a lightning rod for
eccentric, stylized images -
which may explain his distinctly
unruly coiffure.

of his

animator, lending

instincts and his affection for

effort

about

a

You reacted very

the

Cinematographer:

enthusiastically to

script for Sleepy Hollow [which
was
adapted by Andrew Kevin

Paicrotumroesfn.

courtesy

Phot s



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