Directing
Anson Dyer tells 'The Tale of Ronnie Rabbit' in this documentary showing the various stages of making a cartoon bunny.
One of the greatest personalities of modern times. The life of a statesman who has helped to make the new map of Europe.
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.
Based on a comic monologue performed by Stanley Holloway on radio and records.
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.
Set on the Thames estuary, romance blossoms for a young couple.
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.
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.
Cut-out animated parody of Hamlet by pioneering British animator Anson Dyer.
A Colourtune by Anson Dyer
Animated film which parodies Shakespeare's tragic romance using Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin caricatures.
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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.
A little man has the job of ringing the clock tower bell in his village but his timekeeping is poor and things look bleak until he discovers Kelloggs Corn Flakes breakfast cereal.
Mix of live-action and anomation: the cartoonist, Anson Dyer, tells the story nursery story to his daughter, Marion, by means of drawings.
Halt, Who Goes There?
Anson Dyer's animation of the age-old fable, made for Hepworth.
