13th April 2023 - 5th May 2023
Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad: The Extraordinary Animaland of Arthur Humberstone, is brought to you by The Arthur Humberstone Animation Archive & showcasing a wealth of production material and unseen ephemera from Animaland (1948), Animal Farm (1954) and Watership Down (1978).
‘Arthur Humberstone (1912 – 1999) was a British animator, artist and director whose credits include Animal Farm, Yellow Submarine and The BFG, and as a senior animator with Martin Rosen on Watership Down and The Plague Dogs.
His influence is evident from the privately managed Arthur Humberstone Animation Archive which contains a wealth of pre-production materials spanning his 45-year career. The archive reveals both the profound influence Humberstone had over animal aesthetics whilst enhancing our understanding of animation history’.
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