Note 9: Lars Jakobsen, cited works, pp. 41-47, 41-47. However, this is not entirely correctly understood when Lars Jakobsen writes about Myllers letter: "He briefly said that he now had a new studio on Jermyn Street in London, right next to Piccadilly Circus." The studio in question on Jermyn Street was called Anglia Films and was owned by financier Archibald Nettlefold, and was led by Anson Dyer. It is also not correct that it was this company that Myller worked for after his return to London, but rather British Utility Films, which as far as is known was set up by Sidney Griffiths and Anson Dyer. So far, however, it has not been possible to confirm or deny this. Later, Myller followed Griffiths over to Anson Dyers Color Cartoon Studio, Anglia Films. But it was according to Mrs. Inge Roepstorff, i.e. British Utility Films, that Jørgen Myller initially encouraged his two friends and employees to come over and work for.

relating to. the British cartoonist, cartoonist and producer Ernest Anson Dyer (1876-1962), who at least from 1935 collaborated with Sid Griffiths as production supervisor, Jørgen Myller has personally told me that it was from the latter that he actually learned to make cartoons , and already from around 1928, where he worked for Griffiths and Brian White, which he i.a. also tells about in "It started with Storm P."

The collaboration between Dyer, Griffiths, Myller, Mik and Roepstorff stretched as far as is known from 1935-ca 1938, but Roepstorff returned home to Copenhagen around April 1937.

Anson Dyer began making cartoons as early as 1914, when he produced for The British and Colonial Kinematograph Company a series of cartoons on 3 "Dicky Dee's Cartoons", which premiered in resp. October, November and December 1915. Dyer then worked for The Cartoon Film Company, where his cartoons alternated with Dudley Buxton's in the series "John Bull's Animated Sketchbook". Dyer's first film in the series had No. 8, and it introduced a caricature of George Robey, a then-famous Music Hall Comedian. Dyer made a total of 8 cartoons in the series.

In 1917, Anson Dyer joined Dudley Buxton and Ernest H. Mills in Kine Komedy Kartoons, where his first cartoon was "The Kaiser's Record", which premiered in June 1918. In the period June - October 1918, Dyer produced a total of 10 cartoons. World War I ended in November 1918 and after the war it was over with cartoons commenting on current people and events, and Dyer therefore started making cartoons for children instead. His first series was called "Phillip's Philm Phables", and during 1919 3 films were produced in this series.

As early as about 1919-20, Dyer, in collaboration with the famous English film pioneer Cecil M. Hepworth (1874-1953), produced a series of cartoons entitled "Cartoon Burlesques", which were parodies of some of Shakespeare's world-famous plays. 5 titles are known in the series: "The Merchant of Venice", "Romeo and Juliet", and "Amlet", all produced in 1919. Then followed in 1920: "Othello" and "The Taming of the Shrew".

It was also in 1922 that Dyer produced three short cartoons featuring his own original cartoon hero, the boy "Bobby the Scout". And later he made e.g. also "the short entertainment cartoons "Little Red Riding Hood" and "The Three Little Pigs", and thus several years before Disney produced cartoons with similar titles. However, it seems that the 1920s were not favorable for English cartoon production, but in 1927 Dyer allied himself with film producer Archibald Nettlefold, for whom he made his first full-length animated feature film: "The Story of the Flag".

It was also Nettlefold who in 1935 financed the creation of Dyer's ambitious project: Color Cartoon Studio Anglia Films, where the experienced Sid Griffiths was hired as Production Supervisor. The Danes Jørgen Myller, Henning Dahl Mikkelsen and Anker Roepstorff were employed as animators. An intensive production of short entertainment cartoons could then begin, and the first project was the cartoons about musketeer Sam Small, of which in the years 1935-37 at least 6 films were produced. In 1936, the 10-minute cartoon "Carmen" was also produced, which is mentioned in the main text and premiered at the same time as the first Sam Small film: "Sam and his Musket".

As far as my notes tell, Dyer started making commercials in 1937, and among these was "The King with the terrible Temper", which, however, changed its title to "The King who had terrible Hiccups". In addition, "All the Fun of the Air", and in 1938 "Red White and Blue".

After the outbreak of World War II in 1939, Dyer formed Analysis Films with the aim of producing short cartoons for The Ministry of Information, The War Office and The Air Ministry. After the war, in 1946, he formed with D.R. Gardiner Diagram and Technical Films, which I do not know much about, in addition to producing some short entertainment cartoons for the film magnate J. Arthur Rank, who had called es-Disney director David Hand as Production Supervisor. For this company, in 1947, Dyer directed two 10-minute cartoons in a series of three. The first was called "Squirrel War" (1947) and the second and last, the 9 minute long "Who Robbed the Robins" (1947).

At the time, John Halas and Joy Batchelor had a company called Apex Film, and for them, Dyer directed an 11-minute cartoon entitled "Fowl Play" (1950), starring Harold Whittaker. Halas and Batchelor had previously worked for Dyer, but from 1950 onwards the two took over virtually all English cartoon production in the years that followed. After a long life in the cartoon industry, Anson Dyer died on February 22, 1962 at the age of 86.