Vincent, one of Tim Burton‘s earliest animated shorts, will be converted to a stereoscopic 3-D form and will open theatrical screenings of Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas 3-D this October, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Made in 1982, the six-minute stop-motion short is about a boy named Vincent who imagines he’s like Vincent Price. Price narrated the black-and-white film, which was based on a poem by Burton, who sites Price as an influence.

Vincent and NBC, which will play on an estimated 1,000 3-D-ready digital-cinema screens, will be the next 3-D releases scheduled for the Walt Disney Co.

This news comes just as Disney’s animated Meet the Robinsons, which grossed domestically $7.1 million on 581 3-D-ready digital-cinema screens, earned the largest 3-D opening to date.

Disney recently entered a partnership with Robert Zemeckis to create performance capture 3-D animated films at the studio. Zemeckis‘ animated feature Beowulf could appear on nearly 1,200 3-D digital-cinema screens by the time of its release this November.

“(3-D) is being sought out by the public; they are making a conscious decision to go to the 3-D screen first,” said Chuck Viane, president of Disney’s Buena Vista Pictures Domestic Distribution. “It’s always about the movie and story and creativity first; as an enhancement, the 3-D give the public another reason to choose that movie.”