Bob Godfrey Movies

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

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

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

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...

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

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

Bob Godfrey shared his deep passion for animation.

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

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

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

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

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

Agony Aunt Margery Boobs (based on real life newspaper correspondent Margery Proops) has heard it all when it comes to sexual fantasies. Still, she...

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

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.

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

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

At the supermarket, a middle-aged man in an overcoat that's the worse for wear, sees a can marked "Instant Sex." He buys it, heads for his apartment,...

Art for art's sake.

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...