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The Family Holiday

The Family Holiday

Got your holidays booked yet? Take a look at what Terminal Tours have to offer in this consciously coarse comic cartoon

We're all going on a summer holiday, and things might rapidly head off a cliff. This purposefully puerile parody of the package holiday draws on alternative comix, Gilliamesque cut-out animation and schoolboy humour in equal measure. The line and colour work is beautifully crisp and clear, particularly in this version scanned from the original negatives. Some of the less PC moments will make modern eyes cringe, but as smartly designed, daring comic animation for grown-ups it should be saluted.

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Animated Flipside

Animation at its most weird and wonderful

27 videos in this collection

1

Max Beeza and the City in the Sky

  • 1977
2

Superted

  • 1975
3

Bunty the Bouncing Bassoon

  • 1963
4

The Aeronauts

  • 1984
5

David Low Animation

  • 1936
6

The Family Holiday

  • 1975
Worst. Parents. Ever. But a lovely animated tale using cut-out animation designed by Sunniva Kellquist
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
A cartoon cautionary tale of a marriage turning sour, featuring real-life husband and wife Sam Wanamaker and Charlotte Holland
9

I Wanna Mink

  • 1959
This is one small step for The Moody Blues... It may not have led to any giant leaps, but it's a fun cartoon take on British space exploration
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
A maths lesson is an excuse for an animator's tour de force
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
For Puck's sake watch this. Shakespeare's 'shrewd and knavish sprite' emerges in the C20th and takes on the modern obsession of television
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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