Some stills from Ken Lidster's Balloon, a BAFTA-winning National Film & Television School film. It's an interesting combination of stop-motion and Plymptonesque drawn animation.

































Exploring the art and history of British animation
Some stills from Ken Lidster's Balloon, a BAFTA-winning National Film & Television School film. It's an interesting combination of stop-motion and Plymptonesque drawn animation.

































Another Bonzo cartoon from 1925. This time, Bonzo steals someone's sweets, has a can tied to his tail as punishment and ends up being chased by a fox, only to later help it escape from a hunt. One of the hounds (a Sherlock Holmes parody) turns out to be harder to shake than the rest, and Bonzo resorts to wearing the fox around his neck to disguise himself as a flapper. The antagonist promptly falls in love with him - was this already a stock cartoon gag?

















