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 appear to consist of three limericks (though the third one seems to add some text); I can almost imagine which of Lear’s ones they are, though I won’t risk my reputation, if I have one.
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Very nice anyway, in my opinion.
Yesterday’s Speed Bump cartoon, by Dave Coverly, had Edward Lear’s Owl and Pussy-Cat as protagonists:
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 against photo realistic backgrounds. I wanted the contrast between the hand drawn illustrations and the crisp photographs to emphasise the contrast of reality and fantasy in the story. Edward Lear wrote querky stroies, poems and limericks for children in the 1800s, I wanted the style to have a naive quality so choose to work in black and white with a sepia tone.
“The Table and the Chair” adapted for Brooklyn Blowback TV; a reading of Lear’s poem from an illustrated book:
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.
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 Flip Animation Festival in Wolverhamptin in October 2006.
A quick search revealed several other clips I’ll be posting after this one.
In 1909 Peter Newell filed an application for a patent on books with leaves “having designs thereon, and having corresponding portions of said designs cut away to provide sight openings.” The drawings used to illustrate it are sketches of the pictures published that same year under the title of Jungle-Jangle, a mild satire of Theodore Roosevelt’s hunting expedition to Africa.
While the patent for the Slant Book was granted within months of the filing, this one took until 1911 to receive approval, perhaps because instances of “peep shows” or “tunnels” had already appeared at least since the 1850s, according to the Popup Lady’s “History of Movable Books” (also see “Exploring Tunnel Books” at artistbooks.org and Patrizia Ghirardelli’s “Glossario“). Peter Newell’s slim volume, however, differs from the traditional tunnel book for its use of the cut-out shapes as a narrative device which prepares the final revelation; the old peep shows aimed at showing a surprising but static scene.
Interestingly, an incredibly similar design had been filed in 1908 by one Frank U. Wagner but it did not receive approval until 1912: in this case the lady’s face showing through the hole was to be in relief, a variation on S. and J. Fuller’s early-19th century doll-books such as The history of little Fanny, exemplified in a series of figures and Frank Feignwell’s attempts to amuse his friends on Twelfth Night. Exhibited in a series of characters.
A major contemporary art exhibition inspired by Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice’ books entitled ‘Alice’s Wonderland’ is opening at “the gallery — Hornseys” on 14 April. Also on display “fine printers proofs from the original Sir John Tenniel wood blocks, as well as heliogravures by Salvador Dali.”
If you are interested in C.L. Dodgson’s mathematical works, you can read this article on the website of the Mathematical Association of America, which lists and links to several other essays on Carroll’s method for evaluating determinants.
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