1966 International Film Guide Scans

It’s incredible what you can find in a second hand bookstore in Hastings. A while ago I picked up an old copy of the 1966 Internation Film Guide from one of these bookshops (it’s so old you can see on the cover that it was published back in the days of shillings and pounds before British currency was decimalised in 1971.)

It wasn’t until fairly recently that I got around to scanning the animation sections of the guide, which is an interesting window to the British animation scene of the 1960s, featuring a showcase of work from Halas and Batchelor, Richard Williams and Bob Godfrey.

The Zagreb Studios were a prominent Yugoslavian animation studio back in the postwar era.
On the left an advert for TVC (TV Cartoons), the animation studio run by George Dunnings that would later produce The Snowman (1984), The Wind in the Willows (1995) and the Beatrix Potter animated films.
A young and chipper Richard Williams and a new kid on the block in the London animation scene in the 1960s. Neither I Vor Pittfalks or Diary of a Madman (the latter narrated by Kenneth Williams) were completed.
The Foo Foo character (the chap with the round nose and bowler hat on the top right) is of particular interest to me. I’ve only been able to see one short TV cartoon and some of the comic strips but it’s a mystery to me where the other cartoons are, of which there were around thirty or so.
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