# animate! › Films › End of Restriction by Robert Bradbrook

Canonical: https://animate.org.uk/films/endofrestriction/

Discovery terms: 1990s animation, computer animation, adolescence, village life, conservatism, narrative short, filmmaker

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**End of Restriction** a film by Robert Bradbrook

[Robert Bradbrook](http://www.bradfilms.co.uk)

1994, 5 min 20 sec

![End of Restriction, still: Level crossing: The train that goes past at the level crossing was filmed by me and my brother John in the West Country (my films are always real family affairs). I was disappointed by how short the train was and it didn’t allow me time to mix in all of my London photographs over the scene. So I just looped the passing carriages. I was really chuffed to receive a letter from a train-spotter who saw the film on Channel 4 and said he loved it but was puzzled which railway line had a train with so many carriages!](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/endofrestriction05.jpg)

Level crossing: The train that goes past at the level crossing was filmed by me and my brother John in the West Country (my films are always real family affairs). I was disappointed by how short the train was and it didn’t allow me time to mix in all of my London photographs over the scene. So I just looped the passing carriages. I was really chuffed to receive a letter from a train-spotter who saw the film on Channel 4 and said he loved it but was puzzled which railway line had a train with so many carriages!

### a film by Robert Bradbrook

### animate! synopsis

The teenage world via Apple Mac. From childhood loft dreams to the horse latitudes, village life through the eyes of a boy on a bicycle. Conservatism and decay. A black and white film in remembered colour.

### key credits

**director**
Robert Bradbrook

**editor**
Lol Gellor

**music**
Donald Cuthbertson

**End of Restriction** film, stills and other materials © Robert Bradbrook 1994