Though he won an Academy award for his short film biography of a 19th centry English engineering giant, this animator is also known for advirtisements of what product in the UK in the early 1980s?
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Bob Godfrey Roland Frederick Godfrey MBE (27 May 1921 – 21 February 2013), known as Bob Godfrey, was an English animator whose career spanned more than fifty years. He is probably best known for the children's cartoon series "Roobarb" (1974–75), "Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk" (1976-77) and "Henry's Cat" (1983–95) and for the Trio chocolate biscuit advertisements shown in the UK during the early 1980s. However, he also produced a BAFTA and Academy award-winning short film "Great" (1975), a tongue-in-cheek biography of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Further Academy Awards nominations received were for "Kama Sutra Rides Again" (1971), "Dream Doll" (1980), with Zlatko Grgic, and "Small Talk" (1994).
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel Isambard Kingdom Brunel {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} ( ; 9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859), was an English mechanical and civil engineer who is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history", "one of the 19th century engineering giants", and "one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution, [who] changed the face of the English landscape with his groundbreaking designs and ingenious constructions". Brunel built dockyards, the Great Western Railway, a series of steamships including the first propeller-driven transatlantic steamship, and numerous important bridges and tunnels. His designs revolutionised public transport and modern engineering.
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More (1998 film) More is a 1998 short film created by Mark Osborne using stop motion animation. "More" has won several awards, and was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Animated Short Film in 1998.
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Anne Jolliffe Anne Jolliffe (born in 1933) is the first Australian woman animator. She is best known for her work on the film “Yellow Submarine” (1967–68) and the 48th Academy Award winning “Great!” (1976). Despite having no tertiary training in animation and encountering frequent gender-role opposition in the industry, she still loved working in it and continued to pursue the profession.
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Zdeněk Smetana Zdeněk Smetana (26 July 1925 – 25 February 2016) was a Czechoslovak-born Czech animator and graphic artist who created more than 400 animated cartoons, including full length feature films. He became known for a series of Czechoslovak animated children's television bedtime stories during the 1970s and 1980s, including "The Little Witch" ("Malá čarodějnice"), "Fairy Tales of Moss and Fern", and "Reedy". In 1981, Smetana's film, "The End of A Cube", won a BAFTA award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. He also won awards from the Cannes Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival.
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Kevin Bulmer Kevin Bulmer (1962, Solihull – November 12, 2011, Tettenhall), also known as Kev Bulmer, was an English artist, game designer and president of the graphic design and video game company Synthetic Dimensions, which was co-founded by him in 1985. Earlier in his career, he was a contributor to "White Dwarf" magazine. In 2009, Bulmer was given an honorary degree by the University of Wolverhampton for being a "pioneer of 3D image technology and computer games development", in particular for developing "a world-leading two-dimensional (2D) to 3D image conversion system which has been used worldwide by companies such as Nike, Reebok, Peugeot, Disney, EMI and Newline Cinema". Bulmer announced his plans to re-enter the video game industry in 2008, but died in 2011 of prostate cancer.
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Fernley H. Banbury Fernley Hope Banbury (22 December 1881 – 26 May 1963) was an English scientist and engineer. He invented the Banbury mixer, which is used to mix or blend a wide range of materials used in different industries including the food, chemical, pharmaceutical, plastic, rubber and mineral industries.
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Payless DIY Payless DIY was the name of a chain of DIY stores in the UK during the 1980s.
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Manlove, Alliott &amp; Co. Ltd. Manlove, Alliott & Co. Ltd. was an engineering company based in Nottingham, England. It was also for a time known as Manlove, Alliott, Fryer & Co. Ltd.
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Nigel Coan Nigel Coan is a British animator, director, and writer best known for his contributions to the television series "The Mighty Boosh" and "Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy" as well as the film Bunny and the Bull. Coan first met Noel Fielding and fellow Boosh actor Dave Brown at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College (now Buckinghamshire New University), where they lived and attended art school together. Along with his partner Ivana Zorn and their production company "Nipple", Coan has produced work for companies such as Canon, Volvo, and Honda.
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Charlie Chalk Charlie Chalk is a stop motion animation series produced in 1987 in the United Kingdom by Woodland Animations, who also produced the children's television programmes "Postman Pat", "Gran" and "Bertha". Reception to the show was mostly positive.
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Mickey's Mechanical Man Mickey's Mechanical Man is a 1933 animated short cartoon created by Walt Disney.
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Richard Beeching Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching (21 April 1913 – 23 March 1985), commonly known as Dr Beeching, was a physicist and engineer who for a short but very notable time was chairman of British Railways and an affiliate of the Labour Party in Britain. He became a household name in Britain in the early 1960s for his report "The Reshaping of British Railways", commonly referred to as "The Beeching Report", which led to far-reaching changes in the railway network, popularly known as the Beeching Axe.
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Harrison Ellenshaw Harrison Ellenshaw (born Peter Ellenshaw, July 20, 1945 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) is an American matte painter, following his British-born father Peter Ellenshaw. He started his career at Walt Disney Studios. He later joined George Lucas's effects studio Industrial Light and Magic (ILM), where he produced many of the matte visual effects backgrounds for the films "Star Wars" (1977) and "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980). He then returned to Disney to work on the film "Dick Tracy" (1990), and eventually headed Disney Studio's effects department, Buena Vista Visual Effects (BVVE). He was also visual effects supervisor for "Tron" (1982), where he had the distinction of being the first person to have that credit in a film.
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Twickenham Studios Twickenham Studios (formerly known as Twickenham Film Studios) is a film studio in St Margarets, London, United Kingdom used by various motion picture and television companies. It was established in 1913 by Dr. Ralph Jupp on the site of a former ice-rink. At the time of its original construction, it was the largest film studio in the United Kingdom.
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Creature Comforts Creature Comforts is a stop motion clay animation comedy mockumentary franchise originating in a 1989 British humorous animated short film of the same name. The film matched animated zoo animals with a soundtrack of people talking about their homes, making it appear as if the animals were being interviewed about their living conditions. It was created by Nick Park and Aardman Animations. The film later became the basis of a series of television advertisements for the electricity boards in the United Kingdom, and in 2003, a television series in the same style was released. An American version of the series was also made.
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Aleksandr Ptushko Aleksandr Lukich Ptushko (Russian: Алекса́ндр Луки́ч Пту́шко , Ukrainian: Олександр Лукич Птушко ; 19 April [O.S. 6 April] 1900 in Lugansk, Russian Empire (now Luhansk, Ukraine) – 6 March 1973 in Moscow, Soviet Union) was a Soviet animation and fantasy film director, and Meritorious Artist of the RSFSR. Ptushko is frequently (and somewhat misleadingly) referred to as "the Soviet Walt Disney," due to his prominent early role in animation in the Soviet Union, though a more accurate comparison would be to Willis O'Brien or Ray Harryhausen. Some critics, such as Tim Lucas and Alan Upchurch, have also compared Ptushko to Italian filmmaker Mario Bava, who made fantasy and horror films with similarities to Ptushko's work and made similarly innovative use of color cinematography and special effects. He began his film career as a director and animator of stop-motion short films, and became a director of feature-length films combining live-action, stop-motion, creative special effects, and Russian mythology. Along the way he would be responsible for a number of firsts in Russian film history (including the first feature-length animated film, and the first film in color), and would make several extremely popular and internationally praised films full of visual flair and spectacle.
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Manipulation (film) Manipulation is a 1991 British animated short film written and directed by Daniel Greaves. The film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 64th Academy Awards.
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George Jackson (animator) George Jackson (October 26, 1921 – March 16, 1986) was a British animator, who has worked on children's films and television programmes and is best known for his work on the 1989 animated film "The BFG", and work with Martin Rosen on "Watership Down" and "The Plague Dogs".
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Rob Kell John Robert ("Rob") Kell, CBE (1902–1983) was an English civil engineer with particular expertise in the field of heating, ventilation and air conditioning.
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Alfred Leete Alfred Ambrose Chew Leete (1882–1933) was a British graphic artist. Born at Thorpe Achurch, Northamptonshire, he studied at Kingsholme School and The School of Science and Art (now Weston College) in Weston-super-Mare, before moving to London in 1899 and taking a post as an artist with a printer. His career as a paid artist had begun in 1897 when the "Daily Graphic" accepted one of his drawings; later he contributed regularly to a number of magazines including "Punch" magazine, the "Strand Magazine", "Tatler", etc. As a commercial artist he designed numerous posters and advertisements, especially in the 1910s and 1920s, for such brands as Rowntrees chocolates, Guinness and Bovril, and his series of advertisements for the Underground Electric Railways Company (the London Underground) were very well known; his work as a wartime propagandist includes the poster for which he is known above all, the Lord Kitchener poster design, which first appeared on the cover of the weekly magazine "London Opinion" on 5 September 1914. "His prolific output was characterized by its humour, keen observation of the everyday, and an eye for strong design"
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1980s in film The decade of the 1980s in Western Cinema saw the return of studio-driven pictures, coming from the filmmaker-driven New Hollywood era of the 1970s. The period was when "high concept" films gained popularity, where movies were to be easily marketable and understandable, and, therefore, they had short cinematic plots that could be summarized in one or two sentences. The modern Hollywood blockbuster is the most popular film format from the 1980s. Producer Don Simpson is usually credited with the creation of the high-concept picture of the modern Hollywood blockbuster.