

Multiple users tried to track down home video recordings of the show from various sources, like home video recordings and bootleg DVD collections. The other, major way "Clock Man" was predicted most likely to be found was through recordings of Pinwheel episodes. Looking for Coe Film catalogues and contacting old employees became the biggest lead in the search, as it was one of the two major ways to locate "Clock Man". After some research, It was discovered the founder and head of Coe Films, Bernice Coe, had passed away in 2001. When Tippi responded, she said that most of the films featured on Pinwheel were acquired from Coe Films. In 2016, Dycaite contacted Michael Karp, a writer on Pinwheel, who gave him the contact information to Tippi Fortune, the Executive Producer for the show in the early 1980s. This is a chronological list of leads and theorized origins that were followed up on heavily throughout the search. While the two descriptions provided differed in many ways, they were referring to the same piece of animation, as it turns out the smaller details were misremembered.

She eventually agrees to make it up to the wizard by sewing stars to be placed in the night sky, before being returned to her mother, to whom she then recounts the entire experience. Incidentally, the girl decides not to tell her mother, to which the wizard responds by emerging out of her wall clock, snatching her up and demanding an explanation. Howe's uncannily similar description of a scary Pinwheel short can be found within a 2002-2004 forum thread, involving a young girl making a deal with a wizard, after losing her red shoes the deal is that the wizard would replace the shoes, so long as the child told her mother about the extraordinary event. This specific moment - that imprinted itself in the memory of forum user "Commander Santa" who would bring it back to the spotlight - has led to the elusive short being nicknamed "Clock Man." It is speculated that it ended up on Pinwheel after being picked up by Coe Films, who then licensed the short to them. The English narration was credited to Pearl Peterson. It was then picked up by The Learning Corporation of America (or LCA for short) who dubbed it into English and retitled it Sally, for educational use in 1978. The film received an honourable mention at the Gottwaldov Film Festival in 1977. It was exported around the world, yet none of the creators knew exactly where their films would end up, due to Czechoslovakia being a Communist nation at the time. The animation was photographed by Jasoň Šilhan and directed by female director Dagmar Doubkova. Jan Vladislav's version was heavily influenced by an old English folktale, titled "The Old Man at the White House", which was first featured in a book published in 1897. It was seen in his 1971 book, O kočičím králi a devět dalších hrůzostrašných pohádek. This short, titled O parádivé Sally was based upon the Jan Vladislav story of the same name. In 1976, AAA studio (or Art And Animation studio) produced an animated short for Krátký film. 6.3 Differences Between the English and Czech Dub.
