Charley Says was a series of very short cut-out animated cartoon public information films for children, produced by the British government's Central Office of Information and broadcast in the United Kingdom in the 1970s and 1980s.
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The short was made using kinestasis, the animation of cutouts, mostly fashion magazine cutouts illustrating the lyrics of the song "I Know a Place" by Petula Clark.
The use of cutout animation for the narrator pre-dates Terry Gilliam's use of the technique, and the film is often mis-credited as being produced by Gilliam.