As it is the London Olympics, perhaps we should limit it to films that feature the capital - or sport.
Not an Olympic sport, but very English - and produced by LONDON Film Productions – is “The Foxhunt” made by Anthony Gross and Hector Hoppin for Alexander Korda’s production company, and the UK’s first 3-colour Technicolor cartoon. (Korda was ‘empire building’: he wanted his ‘Hollywood-style’ Production Company to include an animation unit, and having been rebuffed by Shamus Culhane he hired the Paris-based makers of “La Joie De Vivre”.
“The Big City”, the first of George Moreno’s “Bubble & Squeek” cartoons, is supposedly London, although neither it nor the surrounding countryside looks particularly English – more generic cartoonland. Moreno was a Fleischer animator who set up a studio in North London after WWII.
In 1925 Jerry the Troublesome Tyke went “In and Out of Wembley” – then the site of the Empire Exhibition, the only remaining part of which, the Empire Stadium, would be the area for the1948 Olympic Games. The original stadium was demolished in 2003 and the New Wembley Stadium opened in 2007
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This has more to do with the Olympics and not London, but I saw an Olympic commercial. It was a zombie from ParaNorman and he was doing a routine on the pommel horse with the announcer describing everything.
Disney's feature "Peter Pan" starts and ends in Edwardian London (with the trip to Neverland begining with a stop at Big Ben and a flight down the Thames) while "101 Dalmations" London home is in 1950/60s Hampstead. "Basil/The Great Mouse Detective" is set entirely in late Victorian London, Basil living below Sherlock Holmes' lodgings in Baker St.
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The direct-to-video Tweety's High Flying Adventure by Warner Brothers Animation in 2000 features Granny making a wager with Colonel Rimfire that Tweety could fly around the Earth, garnering the pawprints of eighty cats en route. The starting point / finish line occurs at a private club somewhere in London.
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Life imitates cartoons. Don't believe me? Try typing "You're doing it wrong" into your search engine. * I have no idea how these fools survive themselves.
There's an Inspector short called "London Derriere" in which the Inspector is tracking down a jewel thief in London, however he is not allowed to use his gun because according to the Scotland Yard captain, the police do not shoot in London.
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"Homer,we just brought Flanders back from the dead. Did you use the notebook to make a flock of penguins peck him to death?" Marge-"Murder He Wrote"-a Simpsons Comic story.
The clay-animated Crapston Villas ran from 1995 to 1998 (and still is seen in reruns) on Britain's always-willing-to-take-a-chance Channel 4.
Animated adult soap opera where each episode focuses on the bizarre lives of London's most chaotic collection of flat-dwellers: Sophie and Jonathan live unharmoniously in Flat B, where she reluctantly supports his ineffectual (and often stoned) attempts to become the next big thing in films. In between resenting him and restraining their vicious cat Fatso, she also plays reluctant host to the lodger from Hell, Flossie, an out-of-work actress who specialises in baby voices and flirting with Jonathan.
Flat C is home for the Stenson family, headed by single parent Marge who is broke, blonde and hell-bent on finding a new boyfriend. Her son is 16-year-old Woody Stenson who spends most of his time concentrating on sexual discovery (but only with himself).
And completing the household are the owners of Flat D, Robbie and Larry, a gay couple much feted by Flossie.
The London 2012 Opening Ceremony featured a band of Industrialists led by engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel. A better idea of his status, stature and acheivements can be gained from viewing "Great!", Bob Godfrey's musical (or should I say 'Music Hall') celebration of the little man with the tall hat.
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