1920s

‘The Jazz Stringer’ was the first British animated film combining sound with picture and featured the character ‘Orace the ‘Armonious ‘Ound’ animated by Joe Noble.

‘Jerry the Troublesome Tyke’ was a cartoon dog character created by Sid Griffiths and Bert Bilby in Cardiff. ‘Jerry the Tyke’ was similar in style to Max Fleischer’s Felix the Kat and appeared in a long series of around 42 short films made over two years.

Bonzo the Dog

Anson Dyer made a series of Sam Cartoons and G.E. Studdy made ‘Bonzo the Dog’. These are considered to be some of the earliest commercial films made to sell things.