Anti-German War Cartoons
Follow the lightning-quick hand of the artist behind a series of comic cartoon sketches poking fun at the enemy during WWI.
Many editorial cartoons during WWI were painstakingly brought to life with both full animation and 'lightning sketches', as seen here. This unidentified example reveals the hand of a gifted artist, speeded up to showcase the draughtsmanship behind a number of common propaganda gags about Kaiser Wilhelm II, his allies and his troops.
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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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