Bonzo No. 5
- 1925
Superted
Don't tell the Spotty man but Superted has a new friend. A stop motion predecessor of the superhero teddy idea
Where's Spotty, Bulk and Texas Pete? Before the SuperTed we know and love hit the screen, Cosgrove Hall experimented with their own superhero teddy idea. Realised in stop-motion, it visually has more in common with Chorlton and the Wheelies than the cel animated Siriol production that went on to greater fame. This pilot episode has no titles and credits and was digitised from the original negatives.
A stop-motion childrens animation, not to be confused with the Siriol 1980 production of the same name.
A teddy bear transforms into Superted to help King Wilberforce from the evil activities of Grogan, the devil mouse who is inventing killer robots.
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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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