BFI Screenonline: Three Knights, The (1982)

Three Knights, The (1982)

Courtesy of University College for the Creative Arts, Farnham


16mm, 11 min, colour, animation

Production Company	West Surrey College Of Art And Design
Director	Mark Baker
Script	Bob Godfrey
Script	Mark Baker

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Three medieval knights set off on their horses on their individual quests to put right all things that have gone wrong. Things, however, do not always go according to plan.

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This humorous animation, produced by drawing on paper, plays on its heroes' pre-conceived ideas of their adventures.

The drawn characters are simple in design and move entertainingly across the screen. The use of white space is impressive, especially in the flying sequence of the witch's black bird.

This was Baker's graduation film, and was later further developed as a 2-minute segment of the animated film Granpa (d. Dianne Jackson, 1989).

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	Baker, Mark (1959-)
	Animation