s feel about living in a zoo
, featuring the voices of the British public "spoken" by the animals. It was created by Nick Park
and Aardman Animations
. The film later became the basis of a series of television advertisements for the UK Electricity Board, and in 2003 a television
series in the same style was released. An American version of the series was also made.
The original 5-minute film Creature Comforts was conceived and directed by Nick Park
and produced by Aardman Animations
featuring the voices of British non-actors in the same vein as the "man on the street" Vox Pop interview
s.
Daddy Polar Bear: My favourite food is, I'm afraid, steak.
Andrew Polar Bear: Do you like steaks and chips with lions on it?
Daddy Polar Bear: Not with lions, Andrew. No I don't like lion steak. I prefer the ordinary steak.
Tracey the Gorilla: Well sometimes, you can't get out and about as much as you would like to. You're stuck in for some reason like I'm stuck in today. But then you get bored and you get fed up with those four walls.
Brazilian Lion: They try to make you comfortable. They try to put you in that quite nice situation with standard food to look like a dogfood that food proper for animals. All right?
Alex the Baby Bird: Because animals that live in the circus get on boxes and balls, but animals in the zoo, they don't have to do anything. They can their own things like drinking and eating.
Frank the Tortoise: It's easily controllable and it needs easily controllable as well because I don't have much time and I'm a busy person. So I have to have everything just as I need it. Well, there should be something filling with model and design and it has to be easily turn off and on-able.
Fluffy the Hamster: I haven't got any circus skills at all. I can't juggle, I can't throw the knife at the lady, I can't tame the lion and I can't crack the whip or... or jump into a small bucket. Can't do any of those things.
Toto performing monkey 1: I'm not sure whether it does excite me anymore or if it's just the money.
Muzulu performing monkey 2: It does me, the thing that excites me about performing really is the fact that you're doing some good, you're making people laugh.