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Boy Who Wanted to Make Pictures
Kodak pocket cameras provide the perfect substitute for a budding portrait artist with little drawing talent. Based on the drawings of Harold Bateman.
Advert 1924 4 mins Silent
Overview
A cartoon advertisement for Kodak demonstrates that their pocket cameras can be perfect for those that do not feel gifted in other artistic talents. With cartoons by H.M. Bateman, famed for his The Man Who... and The Boy Who… newspaper cartoon series, animator David Barker brings movement to characters only previously seen in print.
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