• Director(s)

    Anthony Squire

  • Production Year

    1978

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    50m

  • Cast

    Samantha Weysom, Clark Flanagan, Michael Mannion, Peter Bayliss

Film

Mr. Selkie

mild violence, threat

MR SELKIE is a British short film, from 1979, in which a magical seal becomes a man when he leaves the water and befriends two children who are trying to stop the seas being polluted.…

MR SELKIE is a British short film, from 1979, in which a magical seal becomes a man when he leaves the water and befriends two children who are trying to stop the seas being polluted.

violence
A child throws empty cans at a seal swimming in water; his actions are not condoned. There are slapstick scenes in which people push each other into a swimming pool. Two boys shove each other and one falls into the sea, only to quickly climb out unharmed.
threat and horror
A man chases a woman and calls her a 'cannibal' as he tries to pull her sealskin overcoat off her, in a comic scene. It is implied that a man is eating whole fish, with sight of him sucking their tails into his mouth. There is real world footage of pollution and industrial developments which have caused damage to marine life, with sight of dead fish floating.
additional issues
There are dated uses of derogatory mental health terms such as 'nutter', 'nutcase' and 'crackpot' to describe a man who claims to be a magical sea creature.

  • Director(s)

    Anthony Squire

  • Production Year

    1978

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    50m

  • Cast

    Samantha Weysom, Clark Flanagan, Michael Mannion, Peter Bayliss

mild violence, threat
Classified Date:
23/12/2022
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
BFI Video
violence
A child throws empty cans at a seal swimming in water; his actions are not condoned. There are slapstick scenes in which people push each other into a swimming pool. Two boys shove each other and one falls into the sea, only to quickly climb out unharmed.
threat and horror
A man chases a woman and calls her a 'cannibal' as he tries to pull her sealskin overcoat off her, in a comic scene. It is implied that a man is eating whole fish, with sight of him sucking their tails into his mouth. There is real world footage of pollution and industrial developments which have caused damage to marine life, with sight of dead fish floating.
additional issues
There are dated uses of derogatory mental health terms such as 'nutter', 'nutcase' and 'crackpot' to describe a man who claims to be a magical sea creature.

  • Classified date

    23/12/2022

  • Language

    English