Author Archives: Marco Graziosi

A new Edward Lear animation is available on YouTube, Edward Lear Poetic Stories, in Czech, I think, written and directed by Jana Šobáňová in 2005. That’s as much as I manage to gather. Listening to the sung text it would … Continue reading →

Violets Adventure, based on Edward Lear’s “The Story of the Four Little Children Who Went Round the World“, here is what the author writes: I started off by illustrating the characters then scanned them into a computer and put them … Continue reading →

A suitably obscure rendition of an Edward Lear poem (“Incidents in the Life of My Uncle Arly“) by Dudley Moore from the needlessly destroyed archives of “Not Only… But Also“.

This is clearly an amateurish home production of Edward Lear’s “The Pobble Who Has No Toes;” the image is quite dark and at times this makes it difficult to understand what’s going on.

The music for this video was first published in Ken Nordine‘s CD A Transparent Mask (Asphodel ASP 2004, 2001): “The Akond of Swat” is one of Edward Lear’s Indian poems. More Nordine on YouTube.

From YouTube, a short animated film by Doug Wilson, illustrating Edward Lear’s poem “The Two Old Bachelors.” This traditional animation movie was produced at the University Of Central Lancashire for his 3rd year degree and it was shown at the … Continue reading →