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- BFI identifier29821
- Date1949 (Release)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisCartoon on the fly nuisance, showing the dangers of food contamination and how the dangers can be minimised by food-protection and cleanliness. (Synopsis)
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- Credits
Title
Fly about the House (Original)
Category
FictionThis work is available from BFI Archive Sales
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16mm Colour Positive - CTA - Combined - Viewing
view all - Scripts / DocumentsDocument: production - Animated information film sponsored by the COI and Ministry of Health showing the dangers of domestic flies contaminating food and spreading disease and showing ways to combat the hazard. Directed and produced by John Halas and Joy Batchelor; written by Joy Batchelor; animated by Bob Privett, Bill Taylor, Wally Crook, Vera Linnecar; music by Francis Chagrin. Material includes original storyboarding, stills and list of credits - HAB-1-20
Script - Typewritten script with original hand-coloured storyboarding, hard-bound in blue cover tooled in gold 'A Fly About The House (COI) Halas & Batchelor Cartoon Films For the Ministry of Health'. Inside page is marked erroneously in pencil 'Music by Matyas Seiber'. Annotated in pencil, no date c.1948-1949 - HAB-1-20-1
Photograph - Seven black and white stills showing the fly contaminating sugar bowl, carpet and glassware in the house - HAB-1-20-2
Document: post-production - List of credits, no date [not contemporary with the film, probably 1980s?] Note: The list credits the animation team as Bob Privett, Vic Bevis, Brian Borthwick - HAB-1-20-3
view all - StillsPhotograph: film still - Portrait - SPD-2535360
Photograph: film still - Portrait - SPD-2535361
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Photograph: film still - Portrait - SPD-2535364
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Work - 29821 - 1949 (Release)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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