Beside the Seaside (1948)
Genre : Animation, Comedy
Runtime : 2M
Director : Ralph Ayres
Synopsis
Part of Esso's series of "Car-tune" advertising. The dog works as a garage owner nearby the beach, and is disrupted by an annoying salesman whose car incidentally breaks down. Luckily, he finds his solution in Esso petrol.
Pressure from his boss and a skin-cream client produces a talking boil on a British adman's neck.
Telemachus, an unhappy old man, still lives with his sister, whom he expects to restore so that he marries the woman he loves. In the end, he is persuaded by a friend to put an ad in the newspaper to find her bridegroom, without mentioning her real age and highlighting her dowry. Finally, two bridal candidates appear: A retired and a Greek-Argentine landowner...
A woman is forced to rediscover her humanity in an increasingly digital world.
Three young musicians and three female singers strive for success, competing each other. But love gets in their way.
An honest man puts an ad looking for a room to rent in an honest house and receives five peculiar answers.
A scientist observes the sky through a telescope. He is discontent because the Moon has a delay. The scientist thus uses his telescope as a canon and shoots to alert the Moon in a house in the sky that something went wrong. The upset Moon charges his wife to find out what the correct time of moonrise was. And because it has indeed overslept and is behind the times, it rushes into the sky to rectify his mistake. On the way, he mightily puffs from his pipe, which provokes St Peter's disapproval - for the saint would not tolerate so much black smoke in the sky. He therefore strikes the Moon with lightning and the Moon, falling, loses his pipe. St Peter then recommends him to smoke cigarettes made with Abadie paper tubes.
This brief animated film was designed to promote the remodelling of old clothing as part of the World War II effort.
Animated cinema advertisement produced for Horlick's by George Pal.
Joy Batchelor directed, produced, wrote and designed this short film for Brook Bond Tea: two girls compete for the affections of a Teddy Bear.
A minute-long anti-smoking ad.
Some rum parenting advice from the innovative Larkins Studio in this cinema commercial, based on the drawings of the much-loved Ronald Searle.
Cartoon illustrating the golden rules for brewing a good cup of tea.
A particularly vicious Father Time with a hit-list in his Book of Doom seeks to wipe out characters brought to life from fabric patterns. This neat concept for a cartoon washing powder commercial can be credited to Alexander Mackendrick, who worked at the J Walter Thompson advertising agency before making films at Ealing and then Hollywood.
Together Again is a three-minute film featuring a husband trying to reach his wife, who has dementia, by navigating a stormy sea. With him is another person who represents Admiral Nurses, whose specialist knowledge and skills are used to help keep families that are affected by dementia closer.
Part of Esso's series of "Car-tune" advertising. A cartoon dog's car runs out of gas in the snow. Conveniently, a snowball pulls the car and a stranded female cat over to a petrol station.
Animated cinema ad for E.T. Green's feeds. Bella is a farmer who is as mean as get out so her livestock find their own way to help themselves. One hungry hen improves her lot by shoplifting and starts an animal crime wave. While the adventurous hen grows fat the other livestock conspire to burgle a nearby farm.
Monkey portrays various historical figures as he attempts to make the perfect cup of tea in the Kenya tea farms and then safely take it across the world to England for the Queen.
