A short Claymation produced by students on an animation course run by Dave Brunskill and Lorna Moone for Village Arts. In the film a dark knight abducts a young woman and is chases after by another knight riding a hobby horse. Other characters feature including a wizard who turns a jester into a frog and a short musician playing a didgeridoo who has his instrument broken by the dark knight. Title: Mediaval Productions Knights Frolics A woman tied up with rope is dragged away by a dark...

A short Claymation produced by students on an animation course run by Dave Brunskill and Lorna Moone for Village Arts. In the film a dark knight abducts a young woman and is chases after by another knight riding a hobby horse. Other characters feature including a wizard who turns a jester into a frog and a short musician playing a didgeridoo who has his instrument broken by the dark knight. Title: Mediaval Productions Knights Frolics A woman tied up with rope is dragged away by a dark knight in armour watched by a second man who walks past in the background. The other man arrives at a castle where a second knight departs riding away on a hobby horse. In a clearing two musicians performing as the knight on a hobby horse appears and begins romancing the female singer much to the annoyance of the other male musician. As the couple begin to dance the male musician hits the knight over his head with his hobby horse. On one side of a stage a court jester juggles while on the other a wizard stands watching. The wizard becomes annoyed when the jester drops his balls turning him into a frog. Sitting under a tree a dwarf musician playing a didgeridoo. The dark knight appears and stamps on his instrument before dragging the tired-up woman away again. Inside the wizards home a mouse is chased across the table by a cat. The wizard appears and after placing the frog on the table begins to look through his books to find a spell to turn the frog back into the jester. As the musician with the broken didgeridoo stands crying the knight on the hobby horse appears and gives him a flower. He sniffs it and falls of the stump he was sitting on. In the dark knights castle the abducted woman now stands in a set of stocks. The musician appears and allows the woman to sniff the flower the other knight gave him. The other knight then appears and begins a sword fight the dark knight. The knight on the hobby horse is defeated, but the musician is able to trip and knock out the dark knight. The wizard appears with the frog and asks the woman to kiss it. She does and it turns back into the jester. The film ends in a bar with everyone laughing and drinking together happily. Credit: Film made by Richard Lillie, Neil McArthur, Janet Rogers Workshop leaders Dave Brunskill and Lorna Moone Title: A Mediaval Production for Village Arts © 1999 End title: Made with the support of National Lottery A4E, Cleveland Community Foundation, Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council, Lloyds TSB Foundation, Northern Arts, Village Arts