THE COURT OF KING COLLYWOBBLE

“The highly tactile plasticine or puppet figures that were slowly brought to life in Fred O’Neill’s complex stop-motion animations tended to inhabit elaborate fantasy worlds, flying spaceships to distant planets or enacting ancient Maori legends. Perhaps the pinnacle of O’Neill’s obsessive devotion to the filmmaking craft was the series of King Collywobble episodes that he created for [New Zealand television] during the 1960s.” - Celebrating Dunedin’s Film History, www.filmarchive.org.nz/index.php?

The creatures that comprise King Collywobble’s Court smile for the camera. Possibly used as the title sequence for longer episodes.