Bob Godfrey Movies

Sped up footage of musicians fighting on a stretch of mudflats.

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

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...

About the Ungle-Wungle bird

Oscar nominated animated short from 1972. An animated short from British comedian Bob Godfrey.

Margaret Thatcher gives the audience a lecture whilst being wooed by a miner in Bob Godfrey's remake of his classic earlier cartoon Polygamous...

Veteran British animator and Oscar-winner Bob Godfrey describes how he got started in Animation and the losses of one era ending and the excitement...

80 minutes of erotic animation, from the 20s through the 70s, all of which you can be sure will never play on a Saturday morning!

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

Emily Sprod tries various ways to escape her loveless marriage and meaningless life.

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...

A mock promotional short cartoon film for the 'Do-It-Yourself Cartoon Kit'

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

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...

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

Whenever Father is away, Mother's friend "Uncle Fred" comes to visit. Animated short.

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

The talking penis, first seen in the books of Gray Joliffe, returns for his second animated outing.

Veteran British animator Bob Godfrey (1921-2013) answers the question "What Is Animation?" His answer is by turns witty, iconoclastic and insightful...

Art for art's sake.