Binky and Boo was a 1988 animated short directed by Derek Hayes (the same guy who did the rather spooky “Skywhales“) . I’ve not yet found a copy of it on the Internet anywhere, but I did find a brief reference to the film in a Google scan of an animation text-book.
It’s the life story of a music-hall double-act at the end of their clowning careers: I seem to remember that the animation presents a sort of potted biography of the clown’s lives in the form of scenes from their painful lives as remembered from Binky’s scra-book.
I saw it only once it as part of a Channel 4 animation festival that was broadcast in the early 90′s. I remember thinking that the animation was very funny and wished that I’d had recorded it on my VCR. I’ve been looking for a copy of it ever since but it does not seem to be on sale in any format, and amazingly this animation does not seem to be anywhere on the internet.
Unfortunately “Binky” and “Boo” seem to be very common names for cats in America, so a search of the internet yields nothing but pictures of other people’s feines. I want to see animated clowns: Perhaps Mr. Hayes or one of his former associates would like to upload this animation to a video sharing service so that we can all enjoy it again. I think this funny short deserves to be seen.
