Once upon a time there was a brave British toon studio which hoped to conquer     new animated heights. It was called GB-Animation (short for Gaumont-British)     and it was set up at Moor Hall in Cookham-on-Thames in 1949, by the highly     regarded American animator David Hand, with backing from J Arthur Rank.     Hand came to […]

       “The bounce has gone from his bungee…”       This is the third film outing for Wallace and Gromit, the hugely popular     human-canine combo created by Nick Park and brought to life by the folks     at Aardman Animation in Bristol.     There’s a wool shortage in town, and its got the newspapers all in […]

       “I’ll find that watch one day…”       Nine year-old Abercromby lives with his sailor Granpa, in a seaside house     filled with maritime flotsam and jetson. Granpa used to have an old gold pocket     watch, a treasured possession lost at sea when his ship sunk, and that watch is     always the last thing on […]