Movies: Eric Porter

  • 1972
    Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon

    Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon (1972)

    Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon

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    Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon was Australia's first animated feature film,[2] released in 1972 and directed by Eric Porter. The two sequence directors were Porter's animation director Cam Ford (who had previously worked on the Beatles' Yell...

    Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon
  • 1946
    A Son Is Born

    A Son Is Born (1946)

    A Son Is Born

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    This family melodrama, a tale of desertion, vengeful seduction, coincidental meeting and catharsis, spans more than two decades from 1920 to World War II. A woman imprisoned in a loveless marriage finds the courage to leave her husband but is disturb...

    A Son Is Born
  • 2020
    Animating Aeroplane Jelly

    Animating Aeroplane Jelly (2020)

    Animating Aeroplane Jelly

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    A documentary about Australian animation pioneer Eric Porter’s work on the iconic Aeroplane Jelly animated promos of the 1940s and 1950s....

    Animating Aeroplane Jelly
  • 1939
    Waste Not, Want Not

    Waste Not, Want Not (1939)

    Waste Not, Want Not

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    In this Eric Porter animation of ‘the grasshopper and the ant’ fable, Willie Wombat lazes and plays all summer. He laughs at his animal mates devoting time to collecting and depositing food in their local bank. Winter arrives and Willie, starving and...

    Waste Not, Want Not
  • 1952
    Rabbit Stew

    Rabbit Stew (1952)

    Rabbit Stew

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    Wombat attempts to hunt a crafty rabbit....

    Rabbit Stew
  • 1954
    Bimbo's Auto

    Bimbo's Auto (1954)

    Bimbo's Auto

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    A wallaby junks his car because it’s not working, and the car is sad....

    Bimbo's Auto