Sea Dreams
Skilled artist Lancelot Speed brings his cartoons to life to mock the German navy at the start of WWI.
Maintaining public confidence in Britain's naval prowess was a key propaganda priority in WWI. Here, celebrated illustrator Lancelot Speed conjures up images of Drake and Nelson to contrast with the more recent ambitions of the German navy. By a fortunate coincidence, the film was released just two days after Britain's victory at sea in the Battle of the Falkland Islands.
Lancelot Speed draws a number of sketches which are subsequently animated, depicting the shattering, by the Royal Navy, of the Kaiser's dreams of Naval Power.
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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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