Bob Godfrey Movies

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

An Oscar nominated cartoon about underestimating those appearing small and weak.

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

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

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

Agony Aunt Margery Boobs (based on real life newspaper correspondent Margery Proops) has heard it all when it comes to sexual fantasies. Still, she finds her match in the unlikely “worried Streatham” when his sex life and weird obsessions call for expert advice.

A henpecked husband gets a welcomed surprise when he adds too much detergent to the laundry and out pops a beautiful woman made of soap suds.

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

Bob Godfrey shared his deep passion for animation.

Art for art's sake.

A lonely, middle-aged man gets more than he bargained for when he finds a can of Instant Sex at the local supermarket.

Animated short. A workman appears to climb a magical rope and return with a fortune in jewels.

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

I now pronounce you... animated! Newlyweds meet a nuisance in an playful mix of cartoon comedy and real-life actors, including Roobarb legend Bob Godfrey.

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.

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

A wry, satirical look celebration of 700 years of Switzerland and Swiss culture.

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.

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