Anson Dyer

A perpetually late bell ringer, faces losing his job if he doesn't become punctual.

Anson Dyer's animation of the age-old fable, made for Hepworth.

A star-spangled sock on the nose for Kaiser Wilhelm, as this wordplay propaganda cartoon meets war crimes with pun-ishment

A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's...

Mix of live-action and anomation: the cartoonist, Anson Dyer, tells the story nursery story to his daughter, Marion, by means of drawings.

Animated film which parodies Shakespeare's tragic romance using Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin caricatures.

Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide...

Animated history of the River Thames.

The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael...

Based on a comic monologue performed by Stanley Holloway on radio and records.

Animation based on a Stanley Holloway/G. Marriott Edgar monologue. A northern wood salesman refuses to drop his prices for Noah, despite the flood...

One of the greatest personalities of modern times. The life of a statesman who has helped to make the new map of Europe.

Halt, Who Goes There?

Based on a comic monologue performed by Stanley Holloway on radio and records.

Everyone knows that petroleum comes out of the earth, but the question is how did it get there, and what is it made of? The answer to these questions...

Cartoon of chicken's adventures while being chased by woodland animal.

Cut-out animated parody of Hamlet by pioneering British animator Anson Dyer.

Cut-out animated parody of Hamlet by pioneering British animator Anson Dyer.

Two-minute excerpt from one of the World War One propaganda series by Dudley Buxton and Anson-Dyer, featuring a lightning sketch of Kaiser Wilhem...

One of the series of World War I propaganda films, number unknown, featuring stop-motion animation of the character John Bull spicing up a carnival...

A Colourtune by Anson Dyer

A Colourtune by Anson Dyer

Cut-out animated parody of Hamlet by pioneering British animator Anson Dyer.

“This survey of national symbols was Britain’s first animated feature.” - BFI. Eventually released as six separate short films,...

"A Day in Liverpool stands as probably the first film production specifically about Liverpool, rendering it as a place with a particular identity,...

Pvt. Sam Small is awarded a medal after Waterloo for saving his Sgt. Major's life. The truth emerges that he was actually saving a jar of rum. Asked...

The Vicar of Bray is a satirical description of an individual fundamentally changing his principles to remain in ecclesiastical office as external...

Set on the Thames estuary, romance blossoms for a young couple.