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**15th February** a film by Tim Webb

1995, 6 min 35 sec

[Film / embedded media](https://www.youtube.com/embed/hf8vrbaoRDA)

![15th February, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/15thfebruary02.jpg)

### animate! synopsis

From a poem by Peter Reading, symbol and sadism meet live-action and stop-motion in this tale of rejection and its aftermath. There’s even a credit for ‘hair knotting on heart‘.

### short synopsis

**15th February** mixes live action and animation to describe a symbolic rejection and its sadistic outcome, as related in the poem by Peter Reading.

### key credits

**director**
Tim Webb

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Janice Biggs

**narrator**
Peter Reading

**lighting camera**
David Green
Colin Hawkins
David Pritchard

**animator**
Tim Webb

### Tim Webb

#### short biography

Tim’s first film after his 1986 BA in Animation at West Surrey College of Art & Design was the multi-awardwinning [A is for Autism](http://www.outside-centre.com/darke/mycv/writings/dam/damnov95.html) for Channel 4 in 1992. He has made one previous film for animate! – [15th February](https://animate.org.uk/films/15thfebruary/) received the 1995 ICA Dick Award as “the most provocative, innovative and subversive short film of the year” and the first [ZEBRA Poetry Film Award](http://www.zebra-award.org) , Berlin 2002.

He lives in Broadstairs and is Senior Tutor in Animation at the Royal College of Art.

**Mr Price** is his first digitally-based film.

June 2003

### animate! films by this artist

[15th February](https://animate.org.uk/films/15thfebruary/)

[Mr Price](https://animate.org.uk/films/mrprice/)

### Janice Biggs

### in collaboration with Janice Biggs

### direction

**director**
Tim Webb

### based upon

**actual credit**
based upon

**title of original material**
15th February

**author**
Peter Reading

**type of adapted source material**
poem

**copyright**
© Peter Reading 1983

### voice-over

**narrator**
Peter Reading

### live-action personnel

**lighting camera**
David Green
Colin Hawkins
David Pritchard

### image personnel

**animator**
Tim Webb

### sound personnel

**dubbing mixer**
Colin Martin

### support

**thanks**
Dick Arnall, Jeremy Moorshead, Jonathan Hodgson, Lisa Beattie and Soho Images.

**primary funding**
Arts Council of England/Channel Four Animate! award

© Tim Webb 1995

[![15th February, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/15thfebruary01.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/15thfebruary01.jpg)

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[![15th February, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/15thfebruary02.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/15thfebruary02.jpg)

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### master copy format

**format**
16mm

**colour or black & white**
colour

### video distribution format

**video format**
BetaSP

**screen aspect ratio**
4:3

**video standard**
PAL

**sound type**
stereo

### distributor

LUX
[info@lux.org.uk](mailto:info@lux.org.uk)
+44 (0)20 7503 3980
[www.lux.org.uk](http://www.lux.org.uk/)

Arts Council of England

**15th February** film, stills and other materials © Tim Webb 1995