G-AAAH
1’25”, 2016
Technique
Images of Amy Johnson, her aeroplane and her journey were typed onto paper with symbols created by an Underwood 315 typewriter, they were animated frame by frame under a rostrum camera. The foreground and background are recorded in alternating frames to give the illusion that the aeroplane is travelling in the same frame as the land, clouds or sea.
Credits
Director, Animator and Writer: Elizabeth Hobbs
Amy Johnson worked as a typist for a firm of solicitors before her record- breaking solo flight from Croydon to Darwin, Australia in 1930. This animated film is a celebration of Amy Johnson and her journey. The number plate of her aeroplane was G-AAAH and the plane can still be seen in the Science Museum in London.
Awards and Selected Festivals
Awarded Best film at The Amy Johnson festival 2016
Awarded Best UK film at The Amy Johnson festival 2016
Awarded a Vimeo Staff Pick
Judges Vote in International Programme 3 at LIAF 2016
Ottawa International Animation Festival, 2016,
London International Animation Festival 2016,
This is England, Rouen, 2016
Bit Bang Fest, Argentina, 2016
Underwire Film Festival, UK, 2016
Anima, Belgium, 2016
Animated Dreams, Estonia, 2016
NYCFF 2017,
Flux Screening series, LA, 2017
23th edition of the Festival d’un Jour in Valence, France, 2017
Tricky Women, Vienna, 2017
Monstra (Lisbon Animated Film Festival), 2017
Mecal Pro 2017 Barcelona, 2017
Go Short, Netherlands,2017
The 17th Tel Aviv Animation Festival, 2017
SICAF 17
Fantoche, Switzerland, 2017
Edinburgh International Film Festival, 2017
Melbourne International Animation Festival, 2017
Flatpack, UK, 2017
New Zealand International Film Festival, 2017
HAFF, Holland, 2017
Screened at the Pompidou Centre in the context of education for 3 months in 2017.
Taartrovers Film Festival Playground of the imagination
Into Film British Council Shorts Package, 2018