Curator of Animation at the BFI. Author of The Story of British Animation. Opinions my own. Though to be honest they are sometimes other people's.
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Is it time to mention that I have written a book? The Story of British Animation comes out 23rd Sep 2021 - availlable for pre-order now in a variety of places.
If you buy 174 copies and flick through the covers the character moves - honest... bloomsbury.com/uk/story-of-bβ¦
Fascinating looking event at @HippodromeFilm in late March. A real bonus from Bo'ness
hippodromecinema.co.uk/whatsβ¦
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πHappy 55th Birthday #Flexipede !
β¨Britain's (and arguably the world's) first digital character animation walked onto 16mm 18/12/'67
πInfo on the short + its creator #TonyPritchett in my bio (WiP + Insta)
@stewjeez @Pixar @BFI
#CGHistory #ComputerHistory #animationHistory
Happy Birthday Channel 4! π₯³π₯³
We weren't quite sure what to get, so the curators of the @BFI clubbed together and made you a listicle!
Oh, you've already got one? Several? Ah... well we'll just pop it on the pile with all the others. Many happy returns!
bfi.org.uk/lists/40-years-chβ¦
New opportunity to apply for funding to create a short film about the NHS - details here: network.bfi.org.uk/news-and-β¦
Never took Santa as a Woodbines man, but he seems happy...
(Other cancer sticks are available)
#BFINationalArchive
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It's the UK PREMIERE Tomorrow in SHORTS: MCLAREN ANIMATION 1 at 13.00. @CameoCinema
#animation @British_Film @phoebe__kate_ @AnimateProjects @BFI_Industry @IainGardnerAnim @josephwallaceuk @marymartinsArt @Marmitage1 @stewjeez @IJustinJohnson1 @ClareLBinns
Afternoon oddity... Anyone recognise this? From a mute safety print c1946 - incomplete or perhaps a test. Came to #bfinationalarchive from the Dufay-Chromex company. It's not Verwitterte Melodie, but I suspect the animation is not British even if it was processed in the UK.
It arrived (many years ago) attached to a nitrate print of this player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/β¦
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When I was researching a short doc on British stop-motion animation last year, I was struck by how little scholarship there is on the subject. So π for @cjpallant's book on Smallfilms, the puppetmasters behind BAGPUSS, CLANGERS, PINGWINGS etc. Can't wait to read it.
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For an upcoming issue of @SightSoundmag we're keen to find out about the VHS and DVD rental shops still going in the UK.
Do you work at one or have a favourite?
Please let us know!
The Cabinet of 5000 Fingers of Dr T?
(from the @BFI Reuben Library Press cuttings)
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#SpecialScreening #RefugeeWeek
80y after the beginning of her time hidden during WW2, #AnneFrank's story is re-explored in #AriFolmanβs animated film #WhereisAnneFrank
ποΈ18 June - 2pm at #CinΓ©LumiΓ¨re + presentation by @_Clare_Lawlor @I_W_M
πinstitut-francais.org.uk/cinβ¦
Lovely piece by Daniel Aguirre Hansell on his hunt for the original negatives for Errol Le Cain's The Sailor and the Devil (1967) and its path to the #BFINationalArchive
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Thrilled that our special LIVE @fananimresearch podcast episode on @shinkaimakoto's Your Name (2016) - including discussion of the liminal spaces of a film invested in temporality and mobility AND a lively Q&A with those gathered at the @BFI's Reuben Library - is finally out!
Recorded live at the @BFI Reuben Library in May, check out the latest @fananimresearch podcast on @shinkaimakoto's Your Name (2016), featuring an introduction to the artistry of anime and a discussion of the film's temporal loops and overlapping rhythms!
fantasy-animation.org/all-epβ¦
Cute. Working on the collection of films made by pro-am animator Martin Funnell, recently donated to the BFI National Archive, and he playfully leans into his name in his own pre-film logo featuring a witch on a broom with a funnel hat. c1975.
Well this is rather lovely. Reviewing a print with scant cataloguing details this looks like an early @halasbatchelor production advertising Rinso c1940, made in the distinctive hues and reseau of Dufaycolor
Anyone read The Story of British Animation and fancy leaving a review on amazon? Currently there are four ratings but only one written review which kindly gives it four stars but has the title "Difficult to read" because of the font and shiny paper.
Just asking for a friend...π₯Έ
