Animated Britain

Warning! If you step into the Merry Music Shop then this singalong cartoon is an animated earworm in waiting!

A reet gradely yarn in cartoon form, as a boy and his grandad fly from Wigan to “Th’ USA” in the 1930s

Gad Sir, it’s an animated Colonel Blimp! David Low’s drawings were brought to life in this test for a sadly unrealised political cartoon project

Got your holidays booked yet? Take a look at what Terminal Tours have to offer in this consciously coarse comic cartoon

Animated special offer! 2-for-1 cartoon from Bob Godfrey, with the voice of Ronnie Barker

If anyone can bring Henri Toulouse-Lautrec’s sketchbooks to life, Geoff Dunbar can-can

An audio-driven animated documentary covering a day of life in Yorkshire.

Witness the no-so-great train robbery in this post-war cartoon, produced "in glorious monochrome"

Worst. Parents. Ever. But a lovely animated tale using cut-out animation designed by Sunniva Kellquist

A cartoon cautionary tale of a marriage turning sour, featuring real-life husband and wife Sam Wanamaker and Charlotte Holland

A down-to-earth portrait of art school life from Sarah Ann Kennedy, creator of Crapston Villas and voice of Miss Rabbit and Nanny Plum

Out with the old and in with the new – one of Britain’s leading animation companies pitches its new image with great humour

A cartoon character assassination of the Iron Lady with a healthy dollop of lunacy from Bob “Roobarb” Godfrey

An off-beat animated love story of sorts as Polonius meets his match in Agnes the art lecturer

This animated allegory with a message of mediation was so successful it was adopted by the United Nations

A nutty professor meets a very hungry caterpillar in this animated chase cartoon brimming with swinging 60s backdrops.

An affectionate stop-motion tribute to Hollywood and cinema going, by an animator at Cosgrove-Hall Productions

A relationship liable to blow up at any moment is at the heart of this animated short about a man and an inflatable sex doll

A future Beatles director and former Goon script a beautifully designed comic cartoon for BP

Do you know your Europeans? This animated overview of Germany with Bach was part of a series on the new European Union

Trust me – you will never look at custard the same way again

This cartoon might be NSFW, but it shows that your imagination doesn’t have to be

Are you sitting comfortably? Then let this classic bedtime story begin, with added animation to bring the illustrations to life

This is one small step for The Moody Blues… It may not have led to any giant leaps, but it’s a fun cartoon take on British space exploration

2 + 2 = BOOM! The apocalyptic danger of maths is explored in this computer animated cartoon from the mind of Stan Hayward

A British Steamboat Willie? This early British sound cartoon might not have been the first, but it’s a cracker

Agony Aunt finds her romantic match in a man with increasingly complicated sex fantasies.

Gothic-tinged animation, presenting the final day of a fox, who is being sentenced to death for murdering his rabbit lover.

Music lesson daydreams turn nightmares in this European influenced Technicolor cartoon

A slab of clay is wrought, eviscerated and shattered to render an account of date rape with staggering effectiveness

Frantic Welsh boogie-woogie maestro Thunderclap Jones pounds the piano in this fast and furious pop promo

The Night Before Christmas meets Toy Story in this charming British cartoon from 1958.

A maths lesson is an excuse for an animator’s tour de force

Meet the animated sci-fi fixer from a strange atomic race who knows the value of Christmas.

A story of valleys life and and the lottery, this is truly a winning animation. Watch it and love it!

This is a film about poo, and the things that you should and shouldn't do.

Delightful African folk tale collected by Alexander McCall Smith and animated by industry veteran Kathleen “Spud” Houston

Tennis match escalates into apocalypse

For Puck’s sake watch this. Shakespeare’s “shrewd and knavish sprite” emerges in the C20th and takes on the modern obsession of television

Does your home suffer from BO? This gag filled pastiche of the ad industry is happy to nibble the hand that feeds it

A fast-paced and experimental film told through fragments of internet videos, animations, blogs and news articles.

Personal film about love and memory, animated over hundreds of frames of Google Streetview.