# animate! › Films › Mr Price by Tim Webb › all › synopses › direction & collaboration › full production credits › film stills › tools & processes › format & distribution › background material Canonical: https://animate.org.uk/films/mrprice/all Discovery terms: 2000s animation, hand-drawn animation, live action and animation, memory, education, midlife, disappointment, experimental short film, filmmaker The following is the archived page text; discovery terms above are separately sourced metadata. Archive status: restored in 2026; historical calls, deadlines and services are closed. --- **Mr Price** a film by Tim Webb 2004, 8 min 30 sec ![Mr Price, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/mrprice30.jpg) ### animate! synopsis A reflection on life from mid-life. Memory, expectation, disappointment, education, hero worship, all human failings. **Mr Price** is about illusions and representation – how we understand the world and people around us. ### key credits **director** Tim Webb **director of photography** Tony Hill **sound recording** Mark Hewis **sound post production** Jake Roberts Barnaby Templer **production manager** Jayne Bevitt **producer** Jonathan Bairstow ### 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/) ### a film by Tim Webb ### direction **director** Tim Webb ### cast in picture **James** Tim Webb **James (younger)** Sam Webb **James' wife** Janice Biggs **Mr Price** Stephen Todd **boy in class** Charlie Bishop Peter McNulty **Donovan** Steven Nolan ### live-action personnel **director of photography** Tony Hill ### image personnel **animator** Ronald MacRae Jonathan Hodgson Barry Murphy **colourist** Lisa Flaher Andrea Friedrich **editing and compositing** Wes West Shelley Revill Adam Aiken ### sound personnel **music** Dominic McNulty Alex Franklinos **singer** Star Ruth Lingford Chris Bullock Angela Prince Emma Sue Prince **sound recording** Mark Hewis **sound post production** Jake Roberts Barnaby Templer ### incorporated music and sound material *Mellow Yellow* instrumental courtesy of Donovan Leitch ### production personnel **production manager** Jayne Bevitt **producer** Jonathan Bairstow **production company** Sherbet ### support **thanks** Locations: Margate Winter Gardens, Ann and Phill McNaulty, Dover Athletic Football Ground, Upton Junior School. Lighting provider: George Duck **primary funding** an animate! commission funded through Finetake by Arts Council England and Channel 4 © Tim Webb 2004 [![Mr Price, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/mrprice01.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/mrprice01.jpg) *click on image for full size still* [![Mr Price, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/mrprice02.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/mrprice02.jpg) *click on image for full size still* [![Mr Price, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/mrprice03.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/mrprice03.jpg) *click on image for full size still* [![Mr Price, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/mrprice04.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/mrprice04.jpg) *click on image for full size still* [![Mr Price, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/mrprice05.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/mrprice05.jpg) *click on image for full size still* [![Mr Price, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/mrprice06.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/mrprice06.jpg) *click on image for full size still* [![Mr Price, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/mrprice07.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/mrprice07.jpg) *click on image for full size still* [![Mr Price, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/mrprice08.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/mrprice08.jpg) *click on image for full size still* [![Mr Price, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/mrprice09.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/mrprice09.jpg) *click on image for full size still* [![Mr Price, still: *Mr Price* title card](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/mrprice10.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/mrprice10.jpg) **Mr Price** title card - 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