W.M. Larkins Studio

Shows the improved services and other benefits that oil brings to the backward territories. The financial and technical resources of foreign lands have tapped the liquid wealth hidden below the surface of the earth. In return a new prosperity and improved standard of living is being brought to the peoples of those formerly barren lands.

Advertising cartoon advising the farmers of West Africa to save their money in Barclay's banks.

World War II propaganda trailer asking travellers to have patience and make concessions when travelling on trains. Film mostly consists of rostrum animation of still cartooned images with some very short pieces of true animation. (BFI)

A rendition of the traditional English folksong 'The Lincolnshire Poacher', accompanied by animated drawings.

“Vibrant, progressive animation contrasts with some outdated attitudes in this Electricity Council cartoon on energy usage” - BFI.