Arts

Getting it

I'm a bit late for this party. You know the Lucozade advert - the animated one with the vaudeville music and the cuckoo clock? I never quite got it. The cuckoos are presumably spreading happiness after having a drink but I felt something was missing.

All becomes clear after watching the original animation.

Bathtime in Clerkenwell shows the darker side of the same cuckoo. The film tells of "The Great Revolution of the British Cuckoos, who bravely took over London, forcing all the people to move inside the cuckoo clocks".

There's a reason this animation kept winning awards.