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Arthur Humberstone

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Arthur Humberstone
Born(1912-04-17)17 April 1912
Britain
Died31 December 1999(1999-12-31) (aged 87)
Occupation(s)Animator, artist and director
Years active1949-1999

Arthur Roland Humberstone (17 April 1912 – 31 December 1999) was a British animator, artist and director, whose credits included Animal Farm, Yellow Submarine[1] and The BFG.[2]

In 1946, Arthur was one of the trainee animators enlisted at J Arthur Rank's new studio being set up at Moor Hall, Cookham by ex-Disney Director David Hand.[3]

He worked with Halas & Batchelor and as a senior animator with Martin Rosen on Watership Down and The Plague Dogs.

Arthur Humberstone's influence on the film Watership Down is discussed in the chapter "Revisiting the production of Watership Down through the Arthur Humberstone Animation Archive" in the book Watership Down: Perspectives On and Beyond Animated Violence.[4]

An exhibition Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad, of materials from the Arthur Humberstone Animation Archive, was shown at The Horse Hospital 13th April - 5th May 2023.

Filmography

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Year Title Notes Refs
1949 Ginger Nutt's Christmas Circus [5]
1950 Ginger Nutt's Forest Dragon [6]
1954 Animal Farm
1963 Noddy Goes to Toyland director and animator [7]
1968 Yellow Submarine
1972 The Osmonds
1973 The Addams Family unit director [8]
1974 The Count of Monte Cristo
1978 Watership Down senior animator
1979 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
1982 The Plague Dogs senior animator
1983 SuperTed layout artist, one episode
1989 The BFG key animator

References

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  1. ^ "AFI|Catalog". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  2. ^ "Arthur Humberstone senior animator | Animator Mag - Archive". www.animatormag.com. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  3. ^ "Arthur Humberstone". s200354603.websitehome.co.uk. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
  4. ^ LESTER, DR CATHERINE (2022). WATERSHIP DOWN : perspectives on and beyond animated violence. [S.l.]: BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC USA. ISBN 1-5013-7699-3. OCLC 1290014230.
  5. ^ "Toonhound - Animaland (1948-1949)". www.toonhound.com. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  6. ^ "Toonhound - Animaland (1948-1949)". www.toonhound.com. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  7. ^ "Noddy Goes to Toyland (1963)". BFI. Archived from the original on 9 February 2019. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
  8. ^ "The Unofficial Addams Family Episode Guide". www.addamsfamily.com. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
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