The film crew and craftsman had to be as creative and resourceful as Sally! Skellington Productions was created in July 1991, with production on Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas starting in October 1991. With 19 sound stages, dozens of talented craftspeople, animators, puppets, and eight separate camera crews, the 35,000-foot warehouse, located in San Francisco on 7th Street, was its own little city. Each active set was sectioned off with thick black curtains to keep light out from neighboring sets. Animator Justin Kohn said, “It was like visiting this crazy museum,” he said. “You’d part the curtain, and it was like visiting a whole new world with clouds and stars everywhere.” When production began filming the “What’s This?” Christmas Town scene, construction and pile-driving from local construction crews up the street caused the ground to shake and the puppets to move slightly. Animator Mike Belzer said of the problem, “I freaked out, wondering ‘How can we make a stop motion film with this going on?’” Crews had to carefully plan their shooting until construction finished a few weeks later.

Sally’s mysterious potion jars are ready to hold your trinkets and knitting notions! These spellbinding jars are knit in wool and then felted – a process done with hot water and friction to shrink down protein fibers - so they can stand on their own. By Inserting your hand into bottom of the Frog’s Breath jar, a surprise frog puppet will pop out with a mouth that can open and close! I thought you liked Frog’s Breath?