Stop Motion

Those “things” being spiders, serpents, pre-historic monsters and God. Stop-motion clay animation inspired by the work of Ray Harryhausen.

Bee Boy is destined to spend eternity trapped inside a hive on top of a hill.

Newlyweds meet a nuisance in an enjoyable mix of cartoon comedy and real-life actors, including Roobarb legend Bob Godfrey.

A short stop-frame animation following a lonely Inuit who struggles to survive after an oil tanker leaks oil off the coast of Alaska, killing all the wildlife in the area.

As the general election is held in the UK, it's polling day for the Clangers on a small blue planet far away.

Long before MTV, Len Lye crafted this antecedent of the music video with a cheeky monkey singing and dancing to Cuban hit 'Peanut Vendor'

The shenanigans of Cuthbert-Tiggy, the mischievous kitty who enjoys a tipple. An intriguing combo of stop-motion animation and live action.

Nature and domesticity collide in this dark love story featuring stop-motion puppets.

Puppet pirates pray on the sleeping Navy: the crew of HMS Hopeless pay the price of night starvation in this 1930s Horlicks ad.

An animated Western mock-opera about Horlicks? Bring it on!

Look out, germs at work! These loveable molar mischief making puppets really dig tooth decay.

Charming animated illustration of one of nature's wonders from Britain's most inventive pioneer of wildlife filmmaking.

Top Gear meets Trumpton, as Wilf Weasel pimps Bungle Bunny’s ride

… as brought to you by Rolex, with the help of incredible model animation.

An ageing bobby learns about the Co-op divvy in this gorgeous puppet animation narrated by Stanley Holloway.

Yo-yo, Pogo and Splat (guess which one's the lemon head?) feature in this innovative stop-motion railway safety film

Roll up, roll up! Come witness staggering feats in what might be the earliest surviving animated film made in colour.

A colourful cavalcade of cancer sticks, in this 1930s cinema ad

Road safety guidance for kids from Tufty the squirrel and friends

The lure of a toy shop proves almost too much for Tufty the squirrel

Tufty and friends - a road safety classic remastered!

Behind closed drawers what other worlds lie? A bureau with tenants from the pleistocene (or plasticine) era offers ‘documentary’ potential.

Roll up, roll up! Come witness staggering feats in what might be the earliest surviving animated film made in colour.

An animated xmas with paper dog Snap

Eric misses his Elsie, but in his darkest moment she shows him that true love never dies.

Aardman turn the cinema screen into a mirror and offer this delightful portrait of the typical film festival audience

Decades before Toy Story, a young boy’s toys come to life through animation

An immensely charming toy story in which a distracted pupil becomes an attentive teacher and explains road safety to dolls

A big, bad, but very stylish, wolf meets his match in this model animation of a traditional fairy tale.

An innovative animated appeal film for donations to send matches to troops in the First World War

What seems a charming stop-motion rhapsody for Bourn-vita chocolate reveals some unpleasant racial insensitivity.

Bread today and jam tomorrow? Cheerful puppet cartoon with a catchy song sweetens the pill of post-war austerity.

Toy Story meets Fatal Attraction in this tale of an Edwardian childhood romance scuppered by poor finances and a stalking dolly

An animated ‘mousewife’ finding a way to ease her washing day woes may not be very progressive, but it's delightfully sweet.

Stripped-back wooden dolls put on the greatest show on Earth via the marvel of stop motion

The clinking of the milkman doing his daily rounds turns into a moving tale of romance between the contrasting beverages of day and night.

A post-Brexit pagan dance fantasy about a troupe of Morris-dancing badgers forced to confront the animals quarantined in a facility built above their burrow.