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10/03/1993 Animation 0h 5m
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Overview

The history of empire. A British bulldog answers his mistress's call. He tacks down the Union Jack to cover the British Isles, then begins playing with a small ball that's the world. At first it's innocent play. The dog discovers tea in India; then, the dog shakes gold out of Africa. Gradually, innocence gives way to more and more ferocious play with the ball. We see terrorized women and children as the dog becomes an enslaving potentate. Harmless English archetypes benefit from colonial riches. Then the world begins to grow, and the dog changes too, from bulldog to effete lap dog.

  1. Joanna Quinn

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Christine Pritchard

    Britannia voice (Narrator)

  2. Ben Henghan

    Dog

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A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2025-11-15
Using a quickly paced, sketch style of pencil drawing, this rather entertainingly presents us with a potted history of the rise and fall of the British Empire. Using the traditional bulldog as the purveyor of the story, we start off relatively benignly as tea comes from the Indian Raj, then Africa provides great wealth. That munificence gradually turns to more malevolence, though, as religiosity and militarism kicks in and then gradually our fearlessly crowned pooch becomes more like a manicured lapdog poodle, and those who were previously the colonised end up doing some colonising of their ow...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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