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Secrets of British Animation

6.0 60 mins Documentary   2018
Academy 7   BBC  
Director(s): Sebastian Barfield

BBC Four’s new documentary takes us on a journey through more than a century of animation. It examines the creative and technical inventiveness of some of the great animation pioneers who have worked in Britain – trailblazing talents such as Len Lye, John Halas and Joy Batchelor, Joanna Quinn, and Bristol’s world-conquering Aardman Animations.

Casts of Secrets of British Animation

Peter Lord

as Self

David Sproxton

as Self

Walter R. Booth

as Self (archive Footage)

Jez Stewart

as Self

Walt Disney

as Self (archive Footage)

Len Lye

as Self (archive Photos)

Osbert Parker

as Self

Lotte Reiniger

as Self (archive Photo)

John Halas

as Self (archive Photos)

Joy Batchelor

as Self (archive Photos)

Louis De Rochemont

as Self (archive Photo)

Bob Godfrey

as Self (archive Photos)

Stan Hayward

as Self

Stanley Kubrick

as Self (archive Footage)

Joanna Quinn

as Self

Mike Mort

as Self

Emma Calder

as Self

Sarah Ann Kennedy

as Self (Narrator)

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