Cosgrove Hall: An Animated Life
Posted on 26. Oct, 2011 by Guest in blog
1 day to go! Are you excited? We sure are! We’re especially excited about one of our showings! This year we have been lucky enough to get the incredible animation legends – Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall from Cosgrove Hall! They’ll be showing some of their archive footage along with meeting all you guys out there!
You may not know who Cosgrove Hall are but you’ll know their productions! These are the masterminds behind Dangermouse, Postman Pat, Noddy, Count Duckula and many more! Yes Brian and Mark have entertained children for generations and now you get the chance to meet them!
Cosgrove Hall go back as far as 1969 when they were called Stop Frame Productions. Operating from Manchester Brian and Mark had the passion and desire for animation is what got them their success. Their first series was called Chorlton and the Wheelies named after the district they lived in. The show sold worldwide.
Later in 1975 Stop Frame Productions changed their name to Cosgrove Hall Films. The studio moved on to make Dangermouse. It became one of the studio’s earliest international successes. In 1981 they moved onto making a full feature-length film. This was once again a success! After winning a BAFTA and an International Emmy Award.
Join us Saturday 29th October, 11.15am for Cosgrove Hall: An Animated Life, with Marc Silk (Voice Artist), who will be hosting the session.
Full Weekend passes available from www.ticketsellers.com. Individual Session Passes available from Thursday 27th October onwards.
Hope you have fun tomorrow.
Nathan 
THIS WEEKEND!! Cosgrove Hall, Bill Plympton, Aardman and more!!
Posted on 25. Oct, 2011 by Steph in blog
This weekend sees us host the 8th annual Flip Animation Festival and if you haven’t already seen boy we have an AMAZING line up for you.
With guests including Bill Plympton (Talk, Screening & Workshop), Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall of Cosgrove Hall (Talk and Screening) and Jim Parkyn from Aardman (Screening and Workshop) this year is unmissable!!!
For the weekends programme visit www.flipfestival.co.uk/mobile < – Smart phone users you can bookmark this page as a handy mobile app!
Both day and weekend tickets are still available* and can be booked by calling 01902 716 055
Twitter users don’t forget to tag you updates with #FLIP2011 to see them appear on our website www.flipfestival.co.uk/live
Steph xxx
*Some workshops not included and will require a separate purchase.
Winners & Sponsors
Posted on 24. Oct, 2011 by Renata Walton in blog
Well I bet you’ve all been wondering how we will choose the winners at this years Flip, and after much deliberation and chatting to you guys, one of the best things about this festival is the sense of community, so we’re going to leave it up to the community on a whole to decide the winners in each section & category.
So your films will be judge, on the day, by a mixture of those in the industry or academia, in the Wolverhampton community, those that have their work featured and festival staff & volunteers. So pick up your voting forms at the information point just before each screening.
We’re also delighted to announce that the winners will receive a rather lovely prize pack, including some wicked StopMotion Pro software, official sponsors of Flip 2011.
So look out 2012, we’ll see a massive influx of some brilliant stop motion films hitting the big screens…
GLI.TC/H
Posted on 22. Oct, 2011 by Renata Walton in blog
This GLI.TC/Hed up logo makes me very happy, so pleased and honoured to link up with the GLI.TC/H team…
GLI.TC/H presents screenings of corrupted, glitched and damaged videos as a preview of GLI.TC/H 2011 here in Wolverhampton, UK on 29th October.
This free screening will take place at 9:30pm in the Atrium.
Featuring videos from the likes of idrioema, a.billmiller, minuek, KOKOFREAKBEAN, and more
Find them @GLIDOTTCSLASHH (also one of my favourtie twitter names ever)
x Renata
A little light relief…
Posted on 21. Oct, 2011 by Renata Walton in blog
Here’s some new music and a cracking animated vid.
Wish us well for next week and I hope to see you all here on Thursday for some of the brilliant events.
Remember: anyone that wishes to volunteer with us can attend an orientation at 4pm, please email your name to flip [at] light-house.co.uk in advance, we have covered most places.
x Renata