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Often about animating dust bunnies but with sundry other detritus along the way.
I'm hoping to make an animated film about sentient and occasionally mouthy household dust bunnies and their existential duel with a 1500 watt vacuum cleaner. The story’s a very serious bit of whimsy in the spirit of The Clangers, The Borrowers and Beatrix Potter's tales.
While I was charmed and beguiled by the whimsy of Small Films, American cartoons made me laugh. American cartoons had different qualities. Effervescent energy, bigger gags, more slapstick. And they had a secret.
There were few programmes I watched with a keener anticipation than these. These were almost inevitably made by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate’s production company, Smallfilms.
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Who here will speak for the bunnies of dust?
Too much time in front of the telly as a kid – the fruits of my idleness.
My one and only flash of inspiration.
Dust bunnies are what you get when you leave hydrogen and helium alone for 13.8 billion years then don’t clean under the bed.
