This book is the first history of British animated cartoons, from the earliest period of cinema in the 1890s up to the late 1920s. In this period cartoonists an

A Sight & Sound Book of the Year Jez Stewart charts the course of this extraordinarily fertile area of British film from early experiments with stop-motion and

Throughout its history, animation has been fundamentally shaped by its application to promotion and marketing, with animation playing a vital role in advertisin

"Clare Kitson celebrates one of the most creative sources of broadcast animation - Britain's pioneering Channel 4, winner of three Academy Awards for animation.

The Aardman Studio in Bristol is one of the biggest successes in the new wave of British animation. This book sets Aardman's achievements and the history of the