Arthur Humberstone

Arthur Roland Humberstone (17 April 1912 – 31 December 1999) was a British animator, artist and director, whose credits included Animal Farm, Yellow Submarine[1] and The BFG.[2]

Arthur Humberstone
Born(1912-04-17)17 April 1912
Britain
Died31 December 1999(1999-12-31) (aged 87)
Occupation(s)Animator, artist and director

He worked with Halas & Batchelor and as a senior animator with Martin Rosen on Watership Down and The Plague Dogs.

Arthur Humberstone's influence on the film Watership Down is discussed in the chapter "Revisiting the production of Watership Down through the Arthur Humberstone Animation Archive" in the book Watership Down: Perspectives On and Beyond Animated Violence.[3]

An exhibition Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad, of materials from the Arthur Humberstone Animation Archive, was shown at The Horse Hospital 13th April - 5th May 2023.

Filmography
YearTitleNotesRefs
1949Ginger Nutt's Christmas Circus[4]
1950Ginger Nutt's Forest Dragon[5]
1954Animal Farm
1963Noddy Goes to Toylanddirector and animator[6]
1968Yellow Submarine
1972The Osmonds
1973The Addams Familyunit director[7]
1974The Count of Monte Cristo
1978Watership Downsenior animator
1979The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
1982The Plague Dogssenior animator
1983SuperTedlayout artist, one episode
1989The BFGkey animator

References
  1. "AFI|Catalog". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  2. "Arthur Humberstone senior animator | Animator Mag - Archive". www.animatormag.com. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  3. LESTER, DR CATHERINE (2022). WATERSHIP DOWN : perspectives on and beyond animated violence. [S.l.]: BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC USA. ISBN 1-5013-7699-3. OCLC 1290014230.
  4. "Toonhound - Animaland (1948-1949)". www.toonhound.com. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  5. "Toonhound - Animaland (1948-1949)". www.toonhound.com. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  6. "Noddy Goes to Toyland (1963)". BFI. Archived from the original on 9 February 2019. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
  7. "The Unofficial Addams Family Episode Guide". www.addamsfamily.com. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
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