Strangers
- 1973
Careful Charlie
Cartoon calamities are in store for the proper Charlie in this rail worker safety message, but there's serious advice too
Cartoon physics have been saving lives since the 1900s. Being hit by a train is rarely comic outside of an animated environment, but most rail engineers are all too able to make the connection with the real life. This character is one of a long line of animated Charlies in British animation, alongside Halas & Batchelor's Charley series of the 1940s and the iconic Charlie cat of the 1970s.
An animated film on safety, featuring 'Charlie' a cartoon railwayman
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Animation Goes to Work
For those with an official message to get across, animation is the perfect messenger
Animation has an almost magical ability to charm and captivate. And those same qualities also make it a strikingly effective communication tool. It grabs attention, speaks to all ages, and can distil complex messages into simple and appealing visual metaphors. For government or other august bodies, cartoon antics have often been the perfect jam to sweeten the pill of official communications, whether to explain sweeping change or impart health and safety messages. And for the inventive animator, even the most utilitarian brief is no barrier to the most outlandish of treatments.
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Careful Charlie
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