Note 12: At my request, Bjørn Frank Jensen wrote some notes about his life and career as an artist and animator around 1985-86, and since I believe that these notes tell a lot about the situation of the domestic cartoon industry in the 1930s, I will quote the following: ”[…] When I was about 14 years old, Jørgen Müller had a studio in Vesterport, I went up to get his autograph and a drawing of “Columbus”, but mostly out of curiosity to see what a cartoon studio looked like.

I could not wait to get out of school, and was already aware that the only way to get started with cartoons was through advertising. After my high school graduation, during the summer holidays, I went up to Monterossi with a style book I had filled with my own "humorous" ads, and to my great astonishment, and against my father's wishes, I could start as the youngest man in the studio. Most cinema commercials consisted of slides, colored by hand, and my first works were of that kind.

There were lots of drawings in the drawing room by a German "Michaëlis", who had made films for Monterossi, almost all "cut outs", i.a. film for Houlberg with pigs jumping in a meat machine and coming out like sausages. Michaëlis had moved to Sweden, and Monterossi had made an agreement with Dahl Mikkelsen, who was in London with Müller, that Mik should draw possibly. films Monterossi’s received orders for, and the studio had to draw them up on cels, color and record them. The first film that came out was an advertisement for "Gilders Magasin" in Valby. The drawings came from London, and my job was to draw them up on cells and cover them in shades of gray, as well as to assist with the recording that took place at Ankerstjerne in Nørrebro. I remember that film quite clearly, it consisted of a series of "repeats" of people (including a bid for a tricycle) that went into Gilders Magasin and came out again in new clothes. Before I could start pulling up, I first had to wash old drawings of the celluloids, and press them dry between blotting paper in a press (this treatment was common at the time, and was the cause of many reflexes on the films).

There were several films after this: "Krogs Driving School". The first in color: "Houlbergs Sausages" with 2 pigs, and later, when Mik had returned from London, a film of approx. 5 minutes: "Aladdin" with lots of advertisers who got advertising on the film using subtitles. The drawing studio was at that time expanded with, among others, Erik Christensen. […] (More quote follows later below).

See also more about this below and in Bjørn Frank Jensen's biography here on the website. - See also Lars Jakobsen, cited work, pp. 52-53, 53, who believes that Mik came home to stay in the winter of 1937 and that "Roepstorff lagged behind, Myller only in the beginning of 1938." As mentioned in my text, it can at least be documented that Roepstorff was the first to return home in the spring of 1937. But it is quite true that Myller did not return home until the beginning of 1938, as he was the only one of the three Danes back at Anglia Films, probably to complete one or more films. However, it cannot be ruled out that Mik has also returned to London for a brief remark, being credited for a couple of Anglia cartoons, which first premiered in August 1938, namely All the Fun of the Air and The King with the Terrible Temper. See Niels Plaschke www.plaschke.dk. Sorry, but Plaschke's objectively well-founded website "Wonderful Danish animated films" are unfortunately no longer available on the Internet.