Bob Godfrey Movies

Art for art's sake.

A behind-the-scenes look at the techniques and methods used to create Bob Godfrey's Oscar-winning short film 'Great' (1975).

Bob Godfrey shared his deep passion for animation.

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...

I now pronounce you... animated! Newlyweds meet a nuisance in an playful mix of cartoon comedy and real-life actors, including Roobarb legend Bob...

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...

Veteran British animator Bob Godfrey (1921-2013) answers the question "What Is Animation?" His answer is by turns witty, iconoclastic and insightful...

A down-to-earth portrait of art school life.

Agony Aunt Margery Boobs (based on real life newspaper correspondent Margery Proops) has heard it all when it comes to sexual fantasies. Still, she...

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

Whenever Father is away, Mother's friend "Uncle Fred" comes to visit. Animated short.

Eight unrelated humorous episodes.

Margaret Thatcher gives the audience a lecture whilst being wooed by a miner in Bob Godfrey's remake of his classic earlier cartoon Polygamous...

A lonely, middle-aged man gets more than he bargained for when he finds a can of Instant Sex at the local supermarket.

A comical saga about the French Revolution, as seen by an Englishman, to music by Offenbach. The film's script was selected as part of the Revolution...

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

An Oscar nominated cartoon about underestimating those appearing small and weak.

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

A wry, satirical look celebration of 700 years of Switzerland and Swiss culture.

Albert and Bruce Lacey, all dressed in their stiff Edwardian refinery, dance and play strange unusual instruments in this manic, animated short music...