A Cat Is a Cat
…and that is that. A playful animated meditation on our feline friends with some beautiful artwork.
Are you a dog or a cat person? If you favour the felines then this animated meditation on cats of all shapes and sizes is for you. The film grew out of industry veteran Vera Linnecar's play with applying mottled coloured paints directly onto animation cels. Paired with the piano music these scenes are a playful experiment, mixing abstraction with careful observation of cat behaviour.
Vera started her animation career at the Halas & Batchelor studio in 1940, as did Elizabeth Horn, who also worked on this film. Moving from tracing, to inbetweening, to animating, Vera became one the company's principle artists. In the late 1940s she moved to the Larkins studio which better suited her experimental spirit. In 1957, along with Nancy Hanna, she joined Bob Godfrey and Keith Learner at Biographic, and continued innovating there until she retired in 1983, after four decades in the business.
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
Feline Fun
The Clown and His Donkey
Charley Says: Falling in the Water
Goodwill to All Dogs
Superted
The Fabulumperous Car
The Six-armed Image
The Elstree Erbs
Tale of a Tendril
Bonzo [No. 1]
Bonzolino or - Bonzo Broadcasted
Willie Comes to Life
Running a Cinema
A Cat Is a Cat
Teapot
Topical Bonzette
Steve's Cannon Crackers
Bee Boy
Apodemy
Moxie
The Obvious Child