Bonzo No. 5
- 1925
The Fabulumperous Car
Top Gear meets Trumpton, as Wilf Weasel pimps Bungle Bunny's ride
Welcome to Woodsey New Town. Imagine the polar opposite of Milton Keynes and you've got the idea. In fact it's so idyllic that its animal residents have all abandoned their vehicles and never want to leave. Not good news for mechanic Wilf Weasel, until Bungle Bunny decides he needs a special kind of car. George Moreno had worked with Tex Avery and the Fleischer Brothers in his native US in the 1930s, before setting up in the UK after the war. Sadly Woodsey was one of many projects that failed to make its mark, never getting beyond this pilot episode.
Stop-motion children's film featuring characters from Woodsey New Town.
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Creatures Great and Small
Fur, feathers, bugs or beaks: from the start animators have cast the whole natural world in their human comedies and dramas
Would you know Mickey was a mouse if you didn’t know his surname? Many of the most famous animated characters are drawn from the animal kingdom, but they rarely behave quite as nature intended. Anthropomorphism has a long history in storytelling - going back to Aesop and beyond - and animation has imported it into film. But whether it's Bonzo the Dog or Charley the Cat, these characters are really studies in human nature.
23 videos in this collection
1
Bonzo No. 5
2
Feline Fun
3
The Clown and His Donkey
4
Charley Says: Falling in the Water
5
Goodwill to All Dogs
6
Superted
7
The Fabulumperous Car
8
The Six-armed Image
9
The Elstree Erbs
10
Tale of a Tendril
11
Bonzo [No. 1]
12
Bonzolino or - Bonzo Broadcasted
13
Willie Comes to Life
14
Running a Cinema
15
A Cat Is a Cat
16
Teapot
17
Topical Bonzette
18
Steve's Cannon Crackers
19
Bee Boy
20
Apodemy
21
Moxie
22
The Obvious Child
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