Agitated Adverts
Anson Dyer imagines the characters behind newspaper adverts and brings them to life in this Kine Komedy Kartoon
A man watches the adverts in a newspaper come to life as he browses through the pages in this 'lightning sketch' animation by Anson Dyer. The artist draws an elderly man reading the advertisements in a newspaper and sketches the reader's imagination running wild. He dreams up first an ad for stewards on the SOS shipping line, followed by one for an assistant in a jewellery. Lastly, the old man reads a classified ad from a gentleman who wishes to exchange his helmet for a scooter. He pictures a German general going over a snowy mountain on his scooter, finally reaching a village where he comically crashes into two German soldiers.
Animated piece in which a man watches the adverts come to life as he browses
through the newspaper.
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The First World War: Drawing the Enemy
Britain's cartoonists take up their brushes to confront the Kaiser and his armies.
As the First World War raged across Europe, Britain's animators dedicated themselves to the propaganda effort. These determined artists, among them Lancelot Speed, Dudley Buxton, GW Studdy and Anson Dyer, unleashed an arsenal of tricks with one objective - making the enemy look ridiculous, and victory seem inevitable.
In cartoon after cartoon, lightning sketch after lightning sketch, the elaborately-moustached 'Kaiser Bill' was subjected to a catalogue of indignities, whether at the hands of 'Tommy', 'John Bull' and their allies, or just falling victim to his own hubris.
15 videos in this collection
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Sea Dreams
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Sleepless
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Peter's Picture Poems
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John Bull's Animated Sketchbook No. 4
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John Bull's Sketch Book
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John Bull's Animated Sketch Book
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Bully Boy
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Anti-German War Cartoons
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A Pencil and Alick P.F. Ritchie
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First World War Cartoon - Joffre
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Studdy's War Cartoons Compilation Film
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Tom Merry, Lightning Cartoonist, Sketching Kaiser Wilhelm II
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Agitated Adverts
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