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Aubrey  (1983)
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    producers: D. P. Films
    animation: cel animation

     episodes: 39 x 6mins

       Aubrey

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    Aubrey was orange. He was also an inventor of sorts. No, scrap that, he was
    actually a 'creatician'. That is to say, he created things - large creations,
    contraptions and inventions to solve his problems. Sadly for Aubrey his ideas
    were somewhat mightier than his skills and his poorly constructed designs
    regularly let him down, with ironic consequences. Still, he certainly deserves
    an 'A' grade for effort...

    Like that keen green dog Roobarb, Aubrey put together his creations in
    his garden shed, whilst the wildlife looked on with great disinterest. Roobarb
    was a Bob Godfrey production and in fact the Aubrey series felt very
    Godfrey-like too, with it's felt pen look, plain backgrounds and eccentricities.
    That's not too surprising, actually, because Aubrey's film maker was
    Derek Phillips who was working for Bob Godfrey's Movie Emporium
    at the time. Indeed he was cameraman on Henry's Cat...

    Aubrey, Roobarb, and Henry share many character traits. Each is bursting
    with ideas and concepts, but each invariably fails because of a specific
    shortcoming. Aubrey is let down by poor draughtsmanship, Roobarb is
    over-eager, whilst Henry is just too darned lazy to fulfill his potential...

    Trivia Hounds will see that the Bob Godfrey connections continue with Stan
    Hayward who was one of Aubrey's story advisors. Stan also wrote the Henry's
    Cat series. He and Aubrey's second story advisor Ted Rockley had worked
    with Derek previously on the 1978 short film called "When I'm Rich"...

    Derek Phillips' later series include "Crazy Crow" from 1991, and "Little
    Brrrm" which was produced in 1994 (and shouldn't be confused with
    Ragdoll's remote-controlled car Brum...)          

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     Aubrey on DVD

    
Aubrey
     6 episodes / R2 /
Contender / July 2004

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    made by Derek Phillips
    copyright D.P. Films

    story advisors:   Stan Heyward,Ted Rockley
    painting:            Nancy Walker

    
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    On the web


      
Little Gems
      http://www.thechestnut.com/aubrey.htm
      The Gems present us with two episode guides and plenty of
      top-quality screen grabs, including the image I've adapted at the
      top of this page. Many thanks Gems!
  

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