Car-Toon
with Little Brmm (1992)
producers:
Derek Phillips Films animation: cel animation
episodes:
13 x 10mins
Here's a super simple series from Derek
Phillips. Little Brmm is an
anthropomorphic red car. He's a feisty little
fellow who nips around town
along with other anthropomorphic vehicles
and machines. Think Jimbo and
the Jet Set (Peter Hawkins narrates here too) or indeed "Cars"
without the Pixar dust...
The series' title is very confused. That
Hawkins narration and the on screen
titling tells us this is a "Car-Toon
featuring Little Brmm", but in listings it's
variously billed as just "Car-Toon",
or "Little Brmm", or sometimes "Car-Toon
with Little Brmm". The Hound has settled
on the latter, to make it easier
for folks to find on the site. But if you
really want to get confused, you
might like to know that for its UK video
release the series was billed as
being "The Adventures of the Little
Red Car". And if you think that's
confusing, then read below to get yourself
in a complete twist:
Brrm
- Brmm?!
See
there? - It looks like Derek Phillips and the gang don't even know
the title of their series. At the beginning
of each episode, the on screen
lettering spells out "Little Brrrm"
for us. But in the final holding panel of
that title sequence, our red star is billed
as being "Little Brmm"!
Whether it's "Brmm" or "Brrm",
let's not forget that this particular car is
little and red and animated, and he bears
absoloutely no connection to
a certain yellow car
from Ragdoll Productions. So at least we're clear
on something...