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Bob Godfrey is a pioneering animator whose work reflects immense humour
and irreverance. He is perhaps best known for his television series
Roobarb (1974) and Henry's Cat (1982). Bob
Godfrey was born New South Wales, Australia of British Parents in 1921.
He left Australia after six months and came to England. He went to school
in Ilford and studied at the Leyton Art School. Godfrey began working
in the animation industry as a background painter for the Larkins company
at the Film Producers Guild in 1954 and in 1965 formed his own company,
Bob Godfrey Films. There followed his Oscar-winning film Great, a half-hour
celebration of the life and times of Isembard Kingdom Brunel. His characteristic
style was put into practice in the 1970s, where Godfrey invented a technique
called 'boiling' by drawing in felt tip pen on paper and changing the
shape of the outline in every frame to create a blurring effect used
to such great effect in Roobarb and Henry's Cat.
Original work by Godfrey is uncommon. Much of his work is held in The
Bob Godfrey Collection at The Animation Research Centre in Surrey.
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