Jack King

Movies

Children and Cars
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An animated cartoon of drawings by young children, who imagine the motor car of today and of the future.
Children and Cars
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An animated cartoon of drawings by young children, who imagine the motor car of today and of the future.
A Short Tall Story
Music
The Shorts and the Talls just can’t see eye to eye until a mediating fairy arrives to help them make ends meet.
Topology
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One of a humorous series of films devised to explain in graphic terms the concepts of basic mathematical functions.
Little Tom Thumb
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Animated version of the fairy tale. Tom proves himself cleverer than his brothers when he outwits an ogre and returns home with treasure.
Midsummer Nightmare
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Puck is introduced to the twentieth century and is as amused by the contemporary obsession with television as he was by the lovers' antics.
Power to Fly
Editor
A BAFTA award nominated film made for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company charting the history of aviation from Daedalus to jets.
The Moving Spirit
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A BAFTA award nominated animation tracing the development of the motor car from the original horseless carriage common in the late 19th century to the 1950s streamlined, massed produced, designs.
The Figurehead
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A poem of unrequited love: the studio's first puppet production. Based on a poem by Cosbie Garstin, the film tells the story of a carved wooden saint who is painted to look like a soldier and used as a figurehead on a sailing ship. The ship sinks and the figurehead is saved by a beautiful mermaid who falls in love with him. Her love is not returned because despite his dashing looks he has the wooden heart of a saint.
Dolly, Put the Kettle On
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Joy Batchelor directed, produced, wrote and designed this short film for Brook Bond Tea: two girls compete for the affections of a Teddy Bear.