The Family Holiday

1975
Sound
9m

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.

Animated film parodying the package holiday, offering a look at Terminal Tours which crashes from hot-spot to hot-spot across the world, including Belfast at the height of the Troubles.