Animated films, though less vulnerable to problems such as the death of an actor, can still fail to be completed. "The Thief and the Cobbler" was a twenty-six-year animated film project by Richard Williams which was taken away from him and completed by Fred Calvert. The workprint of the original film became available as a bootleg, and there have been several attempts to restore the film, most notably Garrett Gilchrist's "Recobbled" cut. The 1978 animated adaptation of "The Lord of the Rings" was not viewed by the studio as enough of a commercial success to warrant the funding of a sequel, thus not completing the story from the original book.