Green Men, Yellow Woman

Green Men, Yellow Woman

Even Clark Gable doesn't live up to his image in this off-beat cartoon about a woman fed up with the attentions of little green men

Men might not be from Mars, but the pathetic or insincere attentions of these little green men offer nothing to this yellow woman. Even Clark Gable doesn't live up to his image. Thalma Goldman came to Britain in the late 1960s to study art and animation. Through the seventies she released a series of cartoons brimming with vitality that offered unconventional and challenging perspectives on sex and gender.

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16 videos in this collection

Honestly It's the Story of My Life

  • 1990

Mildred

  • 1960

The Dirt Inside

  • 1998

Children of Wax

  • 1988

Pretend You'll Survive

  • 1981

Green Men, Yellow Woman

  • 1973

Two Faces

  • 1968

Slug Life

  • 2018
Worst. Parents. Ever. But a lovely animated tale using cut-out animation designed by Sunniva Kellquist

Little Tom Thumb

  • 1967

Childhood Memories

  • 2018
The animated short on the terrors of nuclear apocalypse that become a sensation when it played on the Ed Sullivan show, leaving middle America highly disturbed.

A Short Vision

  • 1956
An animated tale with a Lutheran message that's equal parts Christmas spirit and good old-fashioned guilt

The Candlemaker

  • 1957
No man is an island, but Charley represents his nation in this economical cartoon tale of Britain's economics

Robinson Charley

  • 1948
Long before the 'Charley Says' campaign of the 1970s and '80s, another cartoon Charley was used to demystify the newly created NHS.

Your Very Good Health

  • 1948
A cartoon fantasy brings fabric patterns to life in a literal soap opera - yet even here the reality of Home Front life creeps in

Carnival in the Clothes Cupboard

  • 1941
Santa's on strike! This charming animation for the GPO advises early posting to keep Father Christmas onside.

Christmas is Coming

  • 1951
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