Cartoonist At Home (1963)

Ditchling, Sussex.
One of the Pathe Pictorial favourites - Rowland Emett - is featured at home. Various shots of the eccentric cartoonist / artist as he constructs a new sculpture out of bits and pieces bought at junk shops. He checks a plan which he has drawn then goes inside his house to the drawing board. Shot of him painting colour into a cartoon drawing of a crazy invention.
Nice footage of Emett and an assistant - Denis Newman - putting together one of Emett's nutty contraptions. Various shots of the crazy automatons which are attached to a massive moving umbrella structure. It is very funky with models of a cat playing a string instrument, a diver with net curtains inside his mask and a vicar bobbing up and down on a pole.
Emett's 16 year old daughter Claire Emett helps her father. We see her in the garden painting part of one of the models. It is a great little boat with a fisherman inside. We also see a great postman model and a woman gossiping on the phone sitting on a sofa. Ends with a comic shot of Emett with a large metal object on his head.
Note: although paperwork spells the artist's name as Roland Emmett, I believe the correct spelling is Rowland Emett. According to paperwork the locomotive sculpture we see at the beginning is part of a display for the Potato Marketing Board and the ship and postman models are for the "famous GPO model."
Cuts exist - see other record.
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[@OofusTwillip]

I met him, at an exhibit of his works, at the Ontario Science Centre, in Toronto, Canada, in the 1970s. He autographed a poster of his work "Pro Bono Pussiquet Gloy Floribunda" (Stick to Pussycats and Roses, and All's Well).

[@matturban9103]

I've Loved his stuff since I saw Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Hot Springs Arkansas has a Museum with copies of his inventions from the movie. I first saw them in real life there in the 1970s there. I also bought a poster of the Featherstone Kite there years ago and I still have it and a t-shirt with it on it I never wear.

[@grandly_strange]

There's a British Movietone video lurking somewhere deep in CZcams land that shows the finished contraption, made for the Ideal Home Exhibition... to extol the merits of the British GPO, via a 'cosmic magic carpet'

[@Munchausen45]

2:51 Kid pix brought me here