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. En