Bob Godfrey Movies

BBC Four’s new documentary takes us on a journey through more than a century of animation. It examines the creative and technical inventiveness...

A henpecked husband gets a welcomed surprise when he adds too much detergent to the laundry and out pops a beautiful woman made of soap suds.

Oscar nominated animated short from 1972. An animated short from British comedian Bob Godfrey.

Film directed by Bob Godfrey

A lonely man living in a large city buys a life-size sex doll. His relationship with his dream doll causes a certain reaction in the community. A...

Set to Gilbert and Sullivan tunes, a musical cartoon attempts to describe the character of the British nation, with occasional interruptions by...

A boring commuter fantasises about his sex life; when he gets home he is too exhausted to make love to his sexy wife.

Virginal nerd Jon Pigeon, manages to secure a job in a sex research institute where the patients run about the corridors naked, nude aerobics are...

Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent...

Animated short. A workman appears to climb a magical rope and return with a fortune in jewels.

About the Ungle-Wungle bird

An early cinema influenced tale of rags to riches by Bob Godfrey. Bruce Lacey stars as the hapless ‘little man’ who longs to stand in the...

A surreal mix of advertising tropes from the 1960s is very funny but has a neat anti-capitalist undertow.

A series of shorts about adventures of a man and his "willie". They are best friends and talk about everyday problems they face, like competition or...

In order to understand the works and ideas of Karl Marx, this animation takes an ordinary man through several different periods of history, from the...

An animated short that summarizes the manufacture of steel and a humorous look at a world without it.

An animated film about the British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who spearheaded numerous engineering marvels of the early 19th century -...

A mock promotional short cartoon film for the 'Do-It-Yourself Cartoon Kit'

A down-to-earth portrait of art school life.

Veteran British animator Bob Godfrey (1921-2013) answers the question "What Is Animation?" His answer is by turns witty, iconoclastic and insightful...