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At 91 years young, the animation legend keeps plenty busy at his farm near the U.S.-Canada border.

The 1941 film A-tish-oo showed masks being used to prevent the spread of disease Credit: BFI A few nights ago, a couple of hours after lights-out time, I had to reassure my traumatised children that they weren’t about to be abducted by a pervert or dismembered in an industrial accident.  The ideas had been planted that afternoon. We’d watched two short films together produced by the government’s now-defunct Central Office of Information: Never Go With Strangers and Building Sites Bite. Both were originally screened in British classrooms in the Seventies, and I was keen to see if they s...