Anson Dyer

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

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 are given simply and accurately in this animated programme.

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

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

The Vicar of Bray is a satirical description of an individual fundamentally changing his principles to remain in ecclesiastical office as external requirements change around him. The religious upheavals in England from 1533 to 1559 and from 1633 to 1715 made it almost impossible for any individual to comply with the successive religious requirements of the state.

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

Halt, Who Goes There?

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 would he have done it without the rum, Sam says "Like Hell!". He loses his medal.

A Colourtune by Anson Dyer

A Colourtune by Anson Dyer

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

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

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

Animated history of the River Thames.

"A Day in Liverpool stands as probably the first film production specifically about Liverpool, rendering it as a place with a particular identity, character and international status. The opening shots, showing Pier Head with its ensemble of architectural landmarks - the Liver Building, Cunard Building, Port of Liverpool Building (locally known as the Three Graces) - not only developed visual icons synonymous with Liverpool, but helped set in place a moving image language indispensable for subsequent film productions promoting the city." - Richard Koeck

Anson Dyer's animation made for Hepworth Picture.

The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.

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

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 father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.

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

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

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 attraction by adding enemy heads of state as targets for a carnival game.

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 receiving a telephone call.

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 whether or not he should take vengeance.

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