Metadata
WORK ID: NEFA 22527 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
THE LAMBTON WORM | 1996 | 1996-01-01 |
Details
Original Format: BetaSP Colour: Colour Sound: Sound Duration: 9 mins 30 secs Credits: David Brunskill, The Icing Bus, Waterville Primary School Genre: Animation Subject: Rural Life |
Summary A film that uses a mixture of live action and animation directed by Carl Harrison and Dave Brunskill that tells of the County Durham legend of 'The Lambton Worm'. Filmed at Rising Sun Countryside Park at Benton, Newcastle pupils of Waterville Primary School play as villagers in a small early-English village. A travelling minstrel (Sally Ann Arthur) ... |
Description
A film that uses a mixture of live action and animation directed by Carl Harrison and Dave Brunskill that tells of the County Durham legend of 'The Lambton Worm'. Filmed at Rising Sun Countryside Park at Benton, Newcastle pupils of Waterville Primary School play as villagers in a small early-English village. A travelling minstrel (Sally Ann Arthur) arrives and sings a song about the worm. The film intercuts the children dancing around the village with an early computer animation...
A film that uses a mixture of live action and animation directed by Carl Harrison and Dave Brunskill that tells of the County Durham legend of 'The Lambton Worm'. Filmed at Rising Sun Countryside Park at Benton, Newcastle pupils of Waterville Primary School play as villagers in a small early-English village. A travelling minstrel (Sally Ann Arthur) arrives and sings a song about the worm. The film intercuts the children dancing around the village with an early computer animation telling the story of the Lambton Worm. Song performed by 'The Icing Bus'.
Title: Countdown Clock
Village East Studio
Ryton Upon Tyne
Mad Animhatter Productions
The Lambton Worm
Title: Mad Animhatter Productions
Title: The Lambton Worm
The film begins in an early village settlement as two girls play a clapping game in one of the thatched huts. Outside two other girls make brooms out of twigs. An iron pot, presumably cooking food hangs over an open fire as others at the village go about their work. Two girls play a counter game where the wooden counters are placed in one of four compartments in two separate trays. Meanwhile work continues with two villagers putting up a wooden framed structure, others tend to the fire.
Short sequences of film interspersed with views of village life show a lone figure walking through woods.
Work continues in the village include the making of bread while two girls amuse themselves by dropping stones down a well.
Suddenly something grabs the attention of all the villagers. A minstrel has arrived and beckons the villagers to gather round and listen to a song. The minstrel starts to sing and the villagers begin to dance.
The animated part of the film tells the story of the Lambton Worm as the minstrel sings. The film cuts back from time to time to the dancing villagers’
The song slows and reaches a serious section, and the villagers move closer to the minstrel as she continues the story, followed by a return to the animated sequence. The song becomes upbeat again and the villagers resume dancing.
The front page of a newspaper appears as part of the animated sequence. The newspaper is called The Palestine Gazette’ and dated Thursday September 21, 1000 A.D. A headline over the picture of the woman and a victim reads, ‘Big Worm Terrorizes Village’. The worm chases its victim off the page.
The animated story continues as the worm is defeated and killed.
The villagers continue their dance, the film cuts back to the animation and then back to the village again. The villagers dance as they follow the minstrel out of the village and into the woods.
In an empty village spurts of water appear from the well. The now solitary minstrel wanders through the wood and disappears into thin air ending the film.
Credit:
The Lambton Worm
A Mad Animhatter Production
Made In Collaboration With Pearl Buglass and the
Children of Waterville Primary School
Credits:
Performance
Minstrel – Sally Ann Arthur
Villagers
Victoria Evans, Clair Stephenson, Cheryl Strong, Melanie Townsley
Adrian McQueen, Kirsty Batson, Michaela Office, Lyndsey Nesbitt,
Kayleigh Johnson, Kerry King, Tony Stonebanks, Amanda Stewart,
Paul Watson, Vicky Cooper, Gemma Millsip.
Animation
Andrew Adair, Neil Walker, Stephen Scott, Ross Manning, Paul Watson,
Mark Mullender, Michelle Spring, Richard Hindson, Gary Gallon, Christopher Ellis,
Tony Fan, Brian Wales, Colin Davis, Vicky Brennan
Assistant Animators
Dave Brunskill, Nick Daniel, Sean Topham, Carly Harrison, Sally Ann Arthur
Music
‘The Lambton Worm, by The Icing Bus
Lead Vocal – Sharon Pedlow
Tin Whistle – Cath Hough
Banjo – Mike Ratcliffe
Fiddle – Peter Gear
Accordion & Piano – Damon Bridge
Rhythm Guitar – Colin Cairn
Double Bass – Graham Anderson
Music
Backing Vocals
Joanne Mileham, Tony Stonebanks, Lyndsey Nesbitt, Sarah Lee, Dean Brunton, Gemma Millsip, Stacey Strong
Special thanks to – Margaret Clarke
Producers – Ian McKie & Dave Brunskill
Engineers – Ian McKie & Bill Sharp
Assistants – Neil White, Fraser Fortune
Studios – John Marley Centre & Studio 2
Additional Music - Courtesy Trackline & AVP
Storyboard- Carl Harrison
Camera, Sound, Edit – Dave Brunskill
Lab – Colour Film Services
Production Assistance
Sally Ann Arthur, Nick Daniel, Sean Topham, Paul Marshall, Linda Austin, Denis Office
Animation, Characters and Costume Designs by the Children of Waterville Primary
Set Design & Props
Mick Sims, Timo Thompson, Nick Daniel
Filmed on Location at The Rising Sun Countryside Park
Directed by Carl Harrison & Dave Brunskill
Produced by Dave Brunskill
Mad Animhatter Productions
Village East Studio 1996
Special Thanks to All Children, Parents, Staff and Students at Waterville
Primary School
All Staff & Volunteers at the Rising Sun Country Park
Sheila Graber, Scott Tyrell, Northern Arts, North Tyneside City Challenge
Cinema 100
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