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Animated Classics

Showcasing the best and brightest of British animation

12 videos in this collection

What does it mean to be British? You might not have a much clearer idea after watching this animated portrait, but you will certainly be entertained

The United Kingdom

  • 1994
If anyone can bring Henri Toulouse-Lautrec’s sketchbooks to life, Geoff Dunbar can-can

Lautrec

  • 1974
This animated allegory with a message of mediation was so successful it was adopted by the United Nations

A Short Tall Story

  • 1970
Tennis match escalates into apocalypse

Players

  • 1982

Music Man

  • 1938
Part experimental cinema, part advert for the parcel post service, always joyful.

A Colour Box

  • 1935

The Victor

  • 1985

Carmen

  • 1936
A line-drawing love story in a surreal land, made to advertise Empire Air Mail but withheld due to "Freudian" symbolism.

Love on the Wing

  • 1939

Fox Hunt

  • 1936

The Ladder

  • 1967

Ubu

  • 1978