Bob Godfrey Movies

Eight unrelated humorous episodes.

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...

Art for art's sake.

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...

This is a short film about a man, a dog and a duck who enjoy bouncing together.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cartoon about a lady lecturer who gives the audience a lecture on art and is wooed by a romantic gentleman.

A henpecked husband gets a welcomed surprise when he adds too much detergent to the laundry and out pops a beautiful woman made of soap suds.

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

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

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

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

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...

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 down-to-earth portrait of art school life.