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Paddington 2Paddington 2

Children's2017103 minsDirector: Paul King

Britain’s favourite bear returns for another adventure. Porridge rather than marmalade looks set to be Paddington's new staple after he's framed for a robbery, unless the Brown family can help solve the mystery.

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PaddingtonPaddington

Children's201495 minsDirector: Paul King

Unexpectedly beautiful and bewitching return for the marmalade-loving bear with a sense of adventure.

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When the Wind BlowsWhen the Wind Blows

Animation & Artists Moving Image198684 minsDirector: Jimmy Teru Murakami

A middle-aged couple prepare for nuclear war in this humorous and macabre cautionary tale, adapted by Raymond Briggs (The Snowman) from his best-selling book.

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Chicken RunChicken Run

Animation & Artists Moving Image200084 minsDirector: Peter Lord and Nick Park

Mel Gibson’s Rocky the rooster helps the chickens escape from fascistic farmers in Aardman Animations first foray into feature films.

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Shaun the Sheep MovieShaun the Sheep Movie

Animation & Artists Moving Image201485 minsDirector: Richard Starzak and Mark Burton

Aardman returns with another delightful animation for young and old, telling the story of Shaun’s adventures in the big city after Farmer is led astray.

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Men of Merit (a Lantern Lecture)Men of Merit (a Lantern Lecture)

Animation & Artists Moving Image19484 mins

Vibrant, progressive animation contrasts with some outdated attitudes in this Electricity Council cartoon on energy usage

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Do I Detect a Change in Your Attitude?Do I Detect a Change in Your Attitude?

Animation & Artists Moving Image19807 minsDirector: Vera Linnecar

An alternative cartoon cat and mouse chase produced by a trio of pioneer women animators

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Be Careful BoysBe Careful Boys

Animation & Artists Moving Image196411 minsSilentDirector: Vera Linnecar, Nancy Hanna and Keith Learner

As cartoon musical training films about fruit packer’s go, this ones a real peach

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The TrendsetterThe Trendsetter

Animation & Artists Moving Image19695 minsDirector: Vera Linnecar

And you thought followers were a good thing… This cartoon on innovators and imitators is a colourful delight as well as cautionary tale

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Filmed in SupermarionationFilmed in Supermarionation

Documentary2014118 minsDirector: Stephen La Rivière

The definitive documentary chronicling how Gerry and Sylvia Anderson pioneered their trademark animation style, ‘Supermarionation’.

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Hell UnltdHell Unltd

Animation & Artists Moving Image193619 minsSilentDirector: Helen Biggar and Norman McLaren

Norman McLaren and Helen Biggar’s urgent work of animated agit-prop uses rapid editing to create an incisive polemic against arms spending.

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Up Yours Too Guillaume Apollinaire!Up Yours Too Guillaume Apollinaire!

Animation & Artists Moving Image19682 minsSilentDirector: B.S. Johnson

Invited to imagine how Apollinaire would have worked with modern technology, writer/director B.S. Johnson turned John Furse's drawings into an animation that is equally elegant, explicit, surreal and hilarious.

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The BeardThe Beard

Animation & Artists Moving Image197810 minsDirector: Ian Emes

An animated antidote to the hipster beard trend, offering a stark warning not to let your face fur get out of control.

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RootedRooted

Animation & Artists Moving Image19974 minsDirector: Victor Olusola Opeyokun

Animated awakening: a young black man in an oppressive urban environment finds a new outlook by embracing his African roots

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The Hunting of the SnarkThe Hunting of the Snark

Animation & Artists Moving Image196724 minsDirector: Diana Potter

“Live animation” of Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poem adventure from the maker of Captain Pugwash

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Animal FarmAnimal Farm

Animation & Artists Moving Image195472 minsDirector: Joy Batchelor and John Halas

Sixty years young, this British cartoon of George Orwell’s political ‘fairy story’ is still the most abiding adaptation of this powerful, cautionary tale for all ages.

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Hercules: Lion CubsHercules: Lion Cubs

Advert19561 mins

A pair of cheeky lion cubs star in this animated advertisement for the 'Finest Bicycle Built Today'.

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AquariusAquarius

Animation & Artists Moving Image19668 minsDirector: Nancy Hanna

If 2001’s Star Gate sequence was a bit more laid back and accompanied by lift music, it might look a little something like this…

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Quay Brothers
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Quay Brothers

Tapping into a sense of early 20th-century Europe that is a place of dusty nightmares, folkloric paraphernalia and crumbling institutes filled with the dispossessed.

Enter the spooky, surreal and sepia-tinted world of the Brothers Quay.

Lotte Reiniger
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Lotte Reiniger

Lotte Reiniger was one of the 20th century's major animation artists, pioneering a unique and distinctive style of black and white silhouette animation in her interpretations of classic myths and fairy tales.

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