Scope and Contents A British Film Institute (BFI) press pack that contains multiple press releases issued by the Museum of the Moving Image, along with a press release from the British television broadcaster, Channel 4. The Channel 4 press release comments on the success of British animation that year, and mentions the Screwball Films Limited/Spitting Image Productions Limited (SIPL) short-film, The Big Story, and also the SIPL animated series, Crapston...

Scope and Contents A Channel 4 International catalogue, which has been produced to promote Channel 4 programming to international television broadcasters. The catalogue is in the form of a small plastic, ring-bound folder, which holds multiple pieces of card with information about shows.This appears to be an incomplete catalogue, containing introductory pages along with multiple copies of the same three cards, relating to the following Spitting Image Productions Limited and Screwball Films Limited...

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Directors' reports and accounts, along with some correspondence, invoices and other material; relating to Spitting Image Productions Limited (SIPL), its subsidiaries, and SIPL's parent company, Tooth'N Claw Limited. There are also reports and accounts for the SIPL and the Christopher Swann Limited partnership, Spitting Swanns Limited. Also present are some reports and accounts for Roger Law's Ball'n'Chain Limited company, which he used to provide his services to SIPL.

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A file containing a bundle of design material relating to an advertisement campaign for the German soft drink, Gerri. The work for this campaign was undertaken by Spitting Image Productions Limited's subsidiary, Screwball Films Limited, which used the personnel of the Spitting Image Workshop.

Scope and Contents A file containing five examples of a promotional postcard for the Screwball Films' short animation film, The Big Story (SI/595). All postcards have the same design on the front, which feature the title of the production, along with credits, and an image of a Kirk Douglas claymation model. On the rear of two of the postcards, there is text informing the recipient that the short film has been nominated for an Academy Award, and has been selected to support Quentin...

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Four promotional posters for the Screwball Films' short animation film, The Big Story (SI/595). Two of the posters are a medium/large size, while the other two posters are a small/medium size. All have the same artwork design, which features the title of the production, along with credits, and an image of a Kirk Douglas claymation model.

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A file containing six directors' reports and accounts for the Spitting Image Productions Limited subsidiary, Screwball Films Limited, whose principal activity was television and film animation productions, including the Academy Awards-nominated The Big Story. The reports and accounts cover the years ending 31 August 1994 to 31 August 2000, excluding 1996. Two of the items were produced by KPMG, and the others were drawn up by Aston Hughes & Co.

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Directors' reports and accounts for three of Spitting Image Productions Limited's subsidiaries: Burginhall 179 Limited, Nile Street Films Limited, and Screwball Films Limited.

There are no items for the other SIPL subsidiaries, Bazaar Films and Spitting Image Engineering/Spitting Image Projects. However, some financial information about the latter can be found within the financial records of SIPL and its parent company, Tooth'N Claw Limited.

Scope and Contents A visifile containing original artwork and reference material relating to the Spitting Image Productions Limited/Screwball Films Limited stop-motion animation film, The Big Story, released in 1994. This short-film was created by the Spitting Image Workshop artists, David Stoten and Tim Watts. The file is comprised of the following: pencil drawings of the Kirk Douglas character used in the animation, depicting different movements and angles of him; reference...

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A 5.25" floppy disk that contains BPT., PJT., and TXT. files relating to the Spitting Image Productions Limited's/Screwball Productions Limited's short animated film, The Big Story, created by David Stoten and Tim Watts. This short animated film was released in October 1994.

At this time, the contents of these text files are unknown.

Scope and Contents Promotional posters and cards for the claymation short-film, The Big Story, which was produced by the Spitting Image Productions Limited subsidiary, Screwball Films Limited, and was directed by two staff members from the Spitting Image Workshop, Tim Watts and David Stoten. The short-film was an homage to Kirk Douglas films, and features three claymation models of the actor at different stages of his career in a newsroom setting, all voiced by Frank Gorshin [the...

Scope and Contents A file containing a professionally printed treatment/brochure, copies of artwork and other items relating to a proposed stop-motion animated series, The Dumps. This project was a collaboration between Spitting Image Productions Limited and its subsidiary, Screwball Films Limited, along with Elephant Productions. This project does not appear to have gone beyond the development stage.Also present in this file is a fax copy of a letter sent by Michael...

Scope and Contents A box containing four sub-files, which hold material relating to a number of business trips made by Roger Law and other personnel from Spitting Image Productions Limited to America. The first sub-file relates to a trip made by Law to present a lecture, Politically Incorrect: A Jaundiced History of Spitting Image, given at the New York School of Visual Arts, as part of a symposium, Modernism and Eclecticism, in February 1994. Business meetings were also arranged for Law, while in New York,...