Collection

Animated Flipside

Animation at its most weird and wonderful

27 videos in this collection

Max Beeza and the City in the Sky

  • 1977

Superted

  • 1975

Bunty the Bouncing Bassoon

  • 1963

The Aeronauts

  • 1984

David Low Animation

  • 1936

The Family Holiday

  • 1975
Worst. Parents. Ever. But a lovely animated tale using cut-out animation designed by Sunniva Kellquist

Little Tom Thumb

  • 1967
Out with the old and in with the new – one of Britain’s leading animation companies pitches its new image with great humour

Animation Has Changed

  • 1971
A cartoon cautionary tale of a marriage turning sour, featuring real-life husband and wife Sam Wanamaker and Charlotte Holland

I Wanna Mink

  • 1959
This is one small step for The Moody Blues... It may not have led to any giant leaps, but it's a fun cartoon take on British space exploration

To Our Children's Children's Children

  • 1969
A nutty professor meets a very hungry caterpillar in this animated chase cartoon brimming with swinging 60s backdrops.

The Professor

  • 1967

Ersatz

  • 1978

Johann Sebastian Bach In Euro Deutschland

  • 1995

Custard

  • 1974

Pear-shaped Hill

  • 1970

Internet Story

  • 2011

A Date with an Enfield

  • Enfield
  • 2017

Boogie Rag Roll - Thunderclap Jones

  • 1955
A maths lesson is an excuse for an animator's tour de force

Topology

  • 1969
Meet the animated  sci-fi fixer from a strange atomic race who knows the value of Christmas.

Dodo in Christmas Adventure

  • 1965

Selwyn's Lucky Day

  • 2000
Witness the no-so-great train robbery in this post-war cartoon, produced "in glorious monochrome"

The Mail Goes Through

  • 1947
For Puck's sake watch this. Shakespeare's 'shrewd and knavish sprite' emerges in the C20th and takes on the modern obsession of television

Midsummer Nightmare

  • 1957

Noddy Goes to Toyland

  • 1963

Super Natural Gas

  • 1975
Who does he think he's kidding? This parodic day-in-the-life portrait of Mr Hitler is one of the very few British examples of comic cartoon propaganda from WW2.

Adolf's Busy Day

  • 1940

Experimental Animation 1933

  • 1933