Bob Godfrey Movies

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

Cartoon about a lady lecturer who gives the audience a lecture on art and is wooed by a romantic gentleman.

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...

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

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...

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

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.

Eight unrelated humorous episodes.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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...

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

A boring commuter fantasises about his sex life; when he gets home he is too exhausted to make love to his sexy wife.

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