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- BFI identifier25295
- Date1963 (Release)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
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- SynopsisThe world is eventually choked with cars, and the inhabitants are reduced to finding a new way of life. (Synopsis) The world's great cities have ground to a halt - a new civilisation of car dwellers has arisen who spend their entire time in their immobilized cars, piled in layers one above the other. The continuing demand for cars leads scientists to create a car that can reproduce itself. Unfortunately, once it has started there is no way of stopping it. (Synopsis)
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Automania 2000 (Original)
Automania Two Thousand (Alternative)
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LTO5 - Video - MP4 - Viewing
LTO5 - Video - MP4 - Viewing
35mm Colour Positive - Safety - Combined - Viewing
35mm Colour Positive - Safety - Combined - Viewing
16mm Positive - Safety - Combined - Viewing
35mm Positive - Safety - Combined - Viewing
35mm Colour Positive - Safety - Combined - Viewing
35mm Positive - Safety - Combined - Viewing
view all - Scripts / DocumentsAutomania 2000 - Animated film. The world's great cities have ground to a halt - a new civilisation of car dwellers has arisen who spend their entire time in their immobilized cars, piled in layers one above the other. The continuing demand for cars leads scientists to create a car that can reproduce itself. Unfortunately, once it has started there is no way of stopping it. Producer/director: John Halas; script: Joy Batchelor; authors of original work: Todor & Gyorgyei; animation: Harold Whitaker; design: Tom Bailey; music: Jack King; narrator: Ed Bishop. 'A comedy which goes one stage further than Orwell's 1984, the film deals with the state of the world as it may be at the end of the century, as the result of dependence of the population on the scientist and his achievements. It is envisaged that by then the surface of the world will be covered by automatic machinery in general and by motor cars in particular. We see cars piling up in New York, Washington, London and Moscow, bringing life as we know it to a standstill. Trapped below these cars, now 17 storeys high, the new cave-dwellers have to adjust themselves to the new living conditions' [Synopsis appearing in an information sheet published by Halas & Batchelor c. 1980s] Papers include commentary script, synopsis, stills, festival award certificates, expired contracts, correspondence regarding distribution, information sheet with details of distribution arrangements and rights ownership - HAB-1-70
Script - 'Final commentary script' , typescript carbon copy, 3 pages, no annotation, 20 March 1963 - HAB-1-70-1
Script - File containing two copies of 'Commentary' identical in text to HAB-1-70-1, but in a different font and format, no date c.1980s? - HAB-1-70-2
Document: pre-production - File containing: - draft synopsis with working title '1985'; - draft synopsis 'Automania 2000' [two versions] all undated, probably 1963 - HAB-1-70-3
Photograph - File containing: - two black and white stills [family of 'car dwellers'; huge pile of abandoned cars creeping up towards the skyscrapers] - negative of the image of the huge pile of abandoned cars - small colour still of cars piling up in Washington - photocopied image of the 'dating car' - photocopied image of abandined cars piling up next to Big Ben in London no date c. 1963 - HAB-1-70-4
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Work - 25295 - 1963 (Release)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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