Reel People (1976)

Reel People was made over an 18-month period using a 16mm Bolex camera on a home-made rostrum and featured animated caricatures of Jeremy Thorpe, Edward Heath, Harold Wilson, Margaret Thatcher, Ian Callaghan, Spike Milligan, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Spiro Agnew and Gerald Ford.

Reel People won ‘Best First Film’ at the 1977 London Amateur Film Festival. Other showings include The Institute of Contemporary Arts, Channel Four, and international film festivals in London, Annecy, Chicago and more.

Stills from the film

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