Movies: Bob Godfrey

Harriet Blossom is married to Robert Blossom, a businessman who'd rather spend the night at his bra factory than at home with her. One day, Harriet's sewing machine breaks, so Robert sends a repairman, Ambrose, to fix it. It's lust at first sight for...

An early cinema influenced tale of rags to riches by Bob Godfrey. Bruce Lacey stars as the hapless ‘little man’ who longs to stand in the shoes of his hero: conductor Lance Corporal....

An obscure Eastern cult that practices human sacrifice pursues Ringo after he unknowingly puts on a ceremonial ring (that, of course, won't come off). On top of that, a pair of mad scientists, members of Scotland Yard, and a beautiful but dead-eyed a...

BBC Four’s new documentary takes us on a journey through more than a century of animation. It examines the creative and technical inventiveness of some of the great animation pioneers who have worked in Britain – trailblazing talents such as Len Lye,...

Art for art's sake....

A light-hearted look at a thousand years of British history, condensed into a musical cartoon....

Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in the life of The Beatles during 1964. The band have to use all ...

A behind-the-scenes look at the techniques and methods used to create Bob Godfrey's Oscar-winning short film 'Great' (1975)....

An animated film about the British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who spearheaded numerous engineering marvels of the early 19th century - including the Thames Tunnel, the Great Western Railway, and the Great Eastern steamship (for 40 years the wo...

A pair of irreverent shorts. In "Masks," a sad man hides behind a happy mask. In "Happenings," a bored man stands around waiting for something to happen....

A comical saga about the French Revolution, as seen by an Englishman, to music by Offenbach. The film's script was selected as part of the Revolution contest organised in 1987 by the CNC, the INA, Canal+ and the Annecy Festival....

Albert and Bruce Lacey, all dressed in their stiff Edwardian refinery, dance and play strange unusual instruments in this manic, animated short music film....

Set to Gilbert and Sullivan tunes, a musical cartoon attempts to describe the character of the British nation, with occasional interruptions by Prince Charles....

In order to understand the works and ideas of Karl Marx, this animation takes an ordinary man through several different periods of history, from the cavemen to the philosophers of the world to better comprehend Marx ideals for the proletarian and why...

Veteran British animator Bob Godfrey (1921-2013) answers the question "What Is Animation?" His answer is by turns witty, iconoclastic and insightful and all the while is acted out by a tiny man in a bowler hat....

An animated short that summarizes the manufacture of steel and a humorous look at a world without it....

A series of shorts about adventures of a man and his "willie". They are best friends and talk about everyday problems they face, like competition or women and their "kitties". Willie is a live talking character in this satire on sexuality....

A surreal mix of advertising tropes from the 1960s is very funny but has a neat anti-capitalist undertow....

A down-to-earth portrait of art school life....

This is a short film about a man, a dog and a duck who enjoy bouncing together....