Clare Kitson celebrates one of the most creative sources of broadcastanimation -- Britain's pioneering Channel 4, winner of three Academy Awards foranimation. In the 1980s and 1990s, Channel 4 flourished as a world champion oftelevised animation. The channel regularly showcased both British and internationalworks, set up the Animate initiative with the Arts Council of England, and backedthe animator-in-residence program hosted by the British Film Institute's Museum ofthe Moving Image. It commissioned innovative, challenging, left-of-center shortfilms by artists such as the Brothers Quay and Ruth Lingford. Kitson, who served asChannel 4's commissioning editor from 1989 until 1999, helped foster the channel'sgrowing reputation as a broadcasting powerhouse. In British Animation she takes afond look back at this exceptional era.