Beat the Retreat

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

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

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.

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 are given simply and accurately in this animated programme.

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

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

Animated history of the River Thames.

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