Cartoon Carnival

With Peter Lord CBE & Andrew Smith

Cartoon Carnival

With Peter Lord CBE & Andrew Smith
Wednesday 12 February
Watershed
11:00
Dir: Andrew T Smith, 2021, UK, 89 mins
£
5.00 -
11.00

To open Slapstick’s 20th anniversary edition Aardman’s co-founder chats with Andrew Smith , director of Cartoon Carnival a lovingly-researched documentary telling the story of the pioneering early days of animated film and of one film preservationist’s quest to rescue pre-sound cartoons from obscurity and share them with new audiences.

We will be showing the film in full which includes contributions (processed in two-colour Technicolor to match the archive finds) from Kevin Brownlow, Walt Disney, Peter Lord himself and Tommy Jose Stathes, among many others.

Overall event running time: Approximately 93 mins
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