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McNay Art Museum Tim Burton’s “The Nightmare Before Christmas” Exhibition

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September 3, 2008 – January 4, 2009

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Museum Hours:� Tuesday through Friday, 10 am – 4 pm; Thursday, 10 am – 9 pm; Saturday, 10 am – 5 pm; and Sunday, noon – 5 pm.

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McNay
Art Museum

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6000
North New Braunfels

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San Antonio,
Texas
78209

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Free in McNay visitor parking lot

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No charge for general museum admission on Thursdays from 4 to 9 pm and on the first Sunday of the month.

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McNay members – free

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Adults – $8

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Students 13 and under – $5

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Seniors – $5; Active military – $5

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Children 12 and under – free

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An additional admission charge applies during select special exhibitions.

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On view from Wednesday, September 3, 2008 through January 4, 2009, The Nightmare Before Christmas exhibition explores

Burton’s revolutionary use of stop-motion animation technique, a painstaking process dating back to the origins of cinema in the 1890s, requiring each frame to be exposed one at a time, as objects were moved. It took

Burton two years to complete The Nightmare Before Christmas.

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Over a dozen figures, set pieces, and props used in the making of the movie will be shown in the exhibition. These include sets of the library of Jack Skellington’s

mountaintop
Tower and the Armory of Oogie Boogie’s henchmen Lock, Shock, and Barrel. Viewers will see how Jack’s wiry body, dressed in a pinstriped tuxedo and batwings bowtie, can bend into different poses. The wooden floor of the Armory and spiral staircase of Jack’s Tower are drilled with holes where the figures were attached and reattached moving through the set for the 24 photographs needed to make a single second of stop-motion animation.

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www.mcnayart.org

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