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Great (Isambard Kingdom Brunel) (1975)
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An animated film about the British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who spearheaded numerous engineering marvels of the early 19th century...
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Won Oscar.
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Delightful historical cartoon!
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(Credited cast) | Richard Briers | ... | (voice) |
 | Harry Fowler | ... | (voice) |
| Barbara Moore | ... | (voice) |
| Angus Lennie | ... | (voice) |
| Peter Hawkins | ... | (voice) |
| Dick Graham | ... | (voice) |
| Imogen Claire | ... | (voice) |
| Cyril Shaps | ... | (voice) |
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The live-action railway footage used as the basis for one segment was used a few years later in unmodified form for a television ad in the US.
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Queen Victoria:
Ah, Mr Brunel, what are you designing now? Something we shall find amusing, I trust?
Isambard Kingdom Brunel: How about something six times larger than anything like it before?
Queen Victoria: Oh, Isambard!
[Looks at blueprints. Disappointed]
Queen Victoria: Oh, it's a ship.
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel: How about something six times larger than anything like it before?
Queen Victoria: Oh, Isambard!
[Looks at blueprints. Disappointed]
Queen Victoria: Oh, it's a ship.
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Absolutely wonderful short animated mini-musical about the life, career and works of the redoubtable British engineer and inventor, Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Unforgettable songs (I saw it years ago and can still sing nearly all of them!--ranging from 50's style rock to wistful ballads to up-tempo show-tunes; none of which, sadly, are given actual titles in the credits), delightful (and bawdy!) comedy, combined with thorough and loving research for a memorable portrait of one of the Industrial Revolution's most remarkable figures. It deserves particular applause for appropriate use of rotoscoped footage to depict the inaugural day of the Great Western Railway--for a minute I almost wondered if they'd somehow found real film of the event, the effect is that convincing. That this film continues to be unavailable is simply a crime.