Is it time to mention that I have written a book? The Story of British Animation comes out 23rd Sep 2021 - availlable for pre-order now in a variety of places. If you buy 174 copies and flick through the covers the character moves - honest...

Fascinating looking event at @HippodromeFilm in late March. A real bonus from Bo'ness

RT @KateSullivan01: 🎉Happy 55th Birthday #Flexipede ! ✨Britain's (and arguably the world's) first digital character animation walked onto…

Happy Birthday Channel 4! 🥳🥳 We weren't quite sure what to get, so the curators of the @BFI clubbed together and made you a listicle! Oh, you've already got one? Several? Ah... well we'll just pop it on the pile with all the others. Many happy returns!

New opportunity to apply for funding to create a short film about the NHS - details here:

Never took Santa as a Woodbines man, but he seems happy... (Other cancer sticks are available) #BFINationalArchive

Ordered!

Leave this poor videotape alone!

RT @pearlyoysters: pearly_oyster It's the UK PREMIERE Tomorrow in SHORTS: MCLAREN ANIMATION 1 at 13.00. @CameoCinema #animation @British_F…

It arrived (many years ago) attached to a nitrate print of this

RT @dudeydok: When I was researching a short doc on British stop-motion animation last year, I was struck by how little scholarship there i…

RT @IsStevens: For an upcoming issue of @SightSoundmag we're keen to find out about the VHS and DVD rental shops still going in the UK. D…

The Cabinet of 5000 Fingers of Dr T? (from the @BFI Reuben Library Press cuttings)

RT @ifru_london: #SpecialScreening #RefugeeWeek 80y after the beginning of her time hidden during WW2, #AnneFrank's story is re-explored i…

Lovely piece by Daniel Aguirre Hansell on his hunt for the original negatives for Errol Le Cain's The Sailor and the Devil (1967) and its path to the #BFINationalArchive

RT @chrisholliday7: Thrilled that our special LIVE @fananimresearch podcast episode on @shinkaimakoto's Your Name (2016) - including discus…

An example of one of Martin's films PRIVATE BEETHOVEN likely made c1970 in which music wins out over violence. Lovely characters in cut-out animation.

@robinalexbaker @halasbatchelor Yes, that was our scant cataloguing, now fully clad: