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Ersatz

An affectionate stop-motion tribute to Hollywood and cinema going, by an animator at Cosgrove-Hall Productions

Hurray for Hollywood via Chorlton-cum-Hardy. This affectionate tribute to some of the iconic characters and scenes of American cinema was crafted in the suburbs of Manchester at the studio of Cosgrove-Hall Productions. Chris Taylor worked on many of the studio's iconic series like Jamie and the Magic Torch and Wind in the Willows.

Surreal look at Hollywood films of the 1940s through puppet animation.

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Max Beeza and the City in the Sky

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2

Superted

  • 1975
3

Bunty the Bouncing Bassoon

  • 1963
4

The Aeronauts

  • 1984
5

David Low Animation

  • 1936
6

The Family Holiday

  • 1975
7

Little Tom Thumb

  • 1967
Out with the old and in with the new – one of Britain’s leading animation companies pitches its new image with great humour
8

Animation Has Changed

  • 1971
9

I Wanna Mink

  • 1959
10

To Our Children's Children's Children

  • 1969
A nutty professor meets a very hungry caterpillar in this animated chase cartoon brimming with swinging 60s backdrops.
11

The Professor

  • 1967
12

Ersatz

  • 1978
13

Johann Sebastian Bach In Euro Deutschland

  • 1995
14

Custard

  • 1974
15

Pear-shaped Hill

  • 1970
16

Internet Story

  • 2011-08-17
17

A Date with an Enfield

  • Enfield
  • 2017-09-23
18

Boogie Rag Roll - Thunderclap Jones

  • 1955
19

Topology

  • 1969
Meet the animated sci-fi fixer from a strange atomic race who knows the value of Christmas.
20

Dodo in Christmas Adventure

  • 1965
21

Selwyn's Lucky Day

  • 2000-01-01
Witness the no-so-great train robbery in this post-war cartoon, produced "in glorious monochrome"
22

The Mail Goes Through

  • 1947
23

Midsummer Nightmare

  • 1957
24

Noddy Goes to Toyland

  • 1963
25

Super Natural Gas

  • 1975
Who does he think he's kidding? This parodic day-in-the-life portrait of Mr Hitler is one of the very few British examples of comic cartoon propaganda from WW2.
26

Adolf's Busy Day

  • 1940
27

Experimental Animation 1933

  • 1933
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