[THE COURT OF KING COLLYWOBBLE.] THE MAGIC WHISTLE

Rights Information
Year
1965
Reference
F15563
Media type
Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1965
Reference
F15563
Media type
Moving image
Series
The Court Of King Collywobble
Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
Television
Duration
0:05:14
Credits
Animation: Fred O'Neill
Director: Fred O'Neill
Photography: Fred O'Neill
Narrator (Although There The Soundtrack Is Missing): Tom Esplin

“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 Māori 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?

An episode of The Court Of King Collywobble. The opening title sequence (which may be F15557) is missing as is the sound.