Movies: Bob Godfrey

Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in the life of The Beatles during 1964. The band have to use all ...

Harriet Blossom is married to Robert Blossom, a businessman who'd rather spend the night at his bra factory than at home with her. One day, Harriet's sewing machine breaks, so Robert sends a repairman, Ambrose, to fix it. It's lust at first sight for...

An animated film about the British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who spearheaded numerous engineering marvels of the early 19th century - including the Thames Tunnel, the Great Western Railway, and the Great Eastern steamship (for 40 years the wo...

A series of shorts about adventures of a man and his "willie". They are best friends and talk about everyday problems they face, like competition or women and their "kitties". Willie is a live talking character in this satire on sexuality....

BBC Four’s new documentary takes us on a journey through more than a century of animation. It examines the creative and technical inventiveness of some of the great animation pioneers who have worked in Britain – trailblazing talents such as Len Lye,...

An obscure Eastern cult that practices human sacrifice pursues Ringo after he unknowingly puts on a ceremonial ring (that, of course, won't come off). On top of that, a pair of mad scientists, members of Scotland Yard, and a beautiful but dead-eyed a...

The talking penis, first seen in the books of Gray Joliffe, returns for his second animated outing....

Set to Gilbert and Sullivan tunes, a musical cartoon attempts to describe the character of the British nation, with occasional interruptions by Prince Charles....

A lonely man living in a large city buys a life-size sex doll. His relationship with his dream doll causes a certain reaction in the community. A bizarre adaption of Le Ballon Rouge....

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An early cinema influenced tale of rags to riches by Bob Godfrey. Bruce Lacey stars as the hapless ‘little man’ who longs to stand in the shoes of his hero: conductor Lance Corporal....

Art for art's sake....

Oscar nominated animated short from 1972. An animated short from British comedian Bob Godfrey....

Emily Sprod tries various ways to escape her loveless marriage and meaningless life....

A surreal mix of advertising tropes from the 1960s is very funny but has a neat anti-capitalist undertow....

A light-hearted look at a thousand years of British history, condensed into a musical cartoon....

In order to understand the works and ideas of Karl Marx, this animation takes an ordinary man through several different periods of history, from the cavemen to the philosophers of the world to better comprehend Marx ideals for the proletarian and why...

Sped up footage of musicians fighting on a stretch of mudflats....

A pair of irreverent shorts. In "Masks," a sad man hides behind a happy mask. In "Happenings," a bored man stands around waiting for something to happen....

80 minutes of erotic animation, from the 20s through the 70s, all of which you can be sure will never play on a Saturday morning!...