The Six-armed Image

1921
Silent
10m

Pip, Squeak and Wilfred have been rescued from the cannibals and are safe on board the R.313 airship, but lost. They are shot at by arrows and come down on Anchovy Island which has anicent relics of the Anchovy people like a six-armed image. They leave on a steamship and go to Calcutta. They decide to climb Mount Everest and Wilfred is carried to the top by an eagle. There he meets a Scotsman under the snow who asks him for a match and then smokes his cigarette. "The End"

Creatures Great and Small

Fur, feathers, bugs or beaks: from the start animators have cast the whole natural world in their human comedies and dramas

Would you know Mickey was a mouse if you didn’t know his surname? Many of the most famous animated characters are drawn from the animal kingdom, but they rarely behave quite as nature intended. Anthropomorphism has a long history in storytelling - going back to Aesop and beyond - and animation has imported it into film. But whether it's Bonzo the Dog or Charley the Cat, these characters are really studies in human nature.