The Mad Aunts
From the collection of
The Glorious Dream
- Moulsecomb
- 2003-02-18
The Mad Aunts
There are some surreal antics and madcap fun after the Mad Aunts, Dotty and Wizzie, kidnap an elephant from the local zoo
This madcap children's comedy revolves around an utterly bonkers pair of women called the Mad Aunts and the elephant they've kidnapped from the local zoo - planning to later return it to Africa. Played by Jane Basset, as Aunt Dotty, and Louise Rennison, as Aunt Wizzie, we are offered a series of surreal sight-puns and visual gags, including an armchair with a will of its own, as they deal with their nosey neighbour, Mrs Schnozzle, played by Liz Aggiss, and a policeman called Constable Er, played by James Poulter. After mollifying Constable Er with a totally illogical reason as to why they don't have an elephant in their country cottage, the Aunts dive into a bath-tub where they find a message in a bottle. The message reads 'Two pints today please. Milkman!' This production from the Cheeky Girls comedy team dates from 1990.
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University of Brighton Videotape Collection
A cohesive collection from Screen Archive South East representing the production history of a university production unit from 1977 to 2006.
This collection contains educational programmes created for classroom use as well as programmes and commercial narratives that were made on behalf of local businesses, organisations and the community.
Screen Archive South East has made available from across this collection, a total of eighty four programmes from a variety of obsolete open reel 1-inch tape, U-Matic and Betacam broadcast formats.
This cohesive collection represents the production history of a higher and further education based production unit, with content covering a wide range of subjects: teaching the arts and sciences, fashion shows and art exhibitions, early examples of video art and screen dance from the late 1970s to early 1980; documentaries on Sussex artists and a series of works on the institution’s commemorative and promotional history.
As such, the collection documents a particular regional community and its use of videotape technology over almost a thirty-year period.
The high production values in the work created by Media Services at Brighton Polytechnic later, the University of Brighton, was due to the team of independent film makers or ex-BBC technical and production staff, ensuring top quality programming for the time.
46 videos in this collection
1
The Glorious Dream
2
Chelsea School of Human Movement Promo
3
Chelsea College: Student Memories
4
Brighton Polytechnic Promo 2
5
Altered Image
6
Movement and Meaning 5: A Lesson in Gender
7
An Interview with Anne Seagrave
8
Gary Stevens: Audience
9
The Mad Aunts
10
The British Library Bibliographic Services
11
The Booth Museum of Natural History, Hove
12
The Battle of Lewes Road: Our History
13
Choosing Hardy presented by Andrew Motion
14
An Interview with Raymond Briggs
15
Pig-in-the-Middle
16
Interview with Frank Hampson - Creator of Dan Dare
17
Denim: A New Look
18
Knitmaster Electronic Knitting Machine
19
Knitmaster F370 Fine Gauge Machine
20
The Practice of Teaching in Art and Design
21
Shop: A Project in Batch Production
22
Five Sculptures by Anthony Caro
23
An Introduction to Wood
24
Stone Carving
25
Packing and Firing a Kiln
26
Enamelling (Part 2)
27
Country House Lighting
28
Able Children
29
Degrees of Separation
30
Longhill School - Work in Multi-Media
31
A Day in the Life of a British Schoolgirl
32
PAROSI Literacy Discussion Group
33
Engineers for the 90's
34
Green Power Six Hour Electric Car Marathon
35
Process Industry Control Systems: Air Power
36
Digital Devices
37
Measurement and Instrumentation
38
Basic Electrical Skills Programme 1
39
Data Communications & Telemetry
40
The Micro: Controlling an Industrial Clean Plant
41
About AIDS: Teaching to Care - Third Ground
42
A Day in the Life of a Hospital Pharmacist
43
Energy Food for Sport
44
Argus Appeal 2002
45
Small Business Lending: Tom the Baker
46