Movies: Lancelot Speed

Cinema a century ago was a new, exciting and highly democratic form of entertainment. Picture houses nationwide offered a sociable, lively environment in which to relax and escape from the daily grind. With feature films still rare, the programme was...

Lightning sketch propaganda stirs outrage about Reims bombing, and features a British bulldog eating the German sausage....

Comic strip animal favourites of the 1920s continue their epic animated adventure around the world....

First World War animated propaganda short, extolling Britain's naval history and mocking the German navy....

PopSki plots to capture Squeak and manages to trap her with a fish on a string. He chains her in a cellar in the slums of London and she dreams of younger days on Penguin Island....

“After falling overboard they spent days in the life-buoy. Their only food was butter; and you soon get tired of only butter." A fish spots Pip, Squeak and Wilfred adrift, and tells his mermaid wife to make a soup from them; she pushes them ashore in...

Pip, Squeak and Wilfred are introduced, and begin a game of hide and seek with many things being broken. Popski the Bolshivist dog is introduced through a letter threatening Squeak....

‘Wilfred's Nightmare’: Pip, Squeak and Wilfred take a piece of floating ice to reach the boat, and Wilfred falls asleep. He dreams of floating up to the moon, where he has trouble with moon creatures, before waking. ‘Home Again’: The trio have been p...

The coastguard finds an egg, and Wilfred takes an interest in it. An ostrich hatches out, and grows rapidly. "WILFRED'S DREAM" - Wilfred falls asleep on the beach, and dreams of carrots and Cupid. He falls in love with a fairy, and they fly on a magi...

Halfway up Mount Everest, Pip and Squeak wait for Wilfred, who has already reached the top. He slides down. They then steal a cart and an engine, before going by elephant to Calcutta, where they catch a steamship again....

Pip, Squeak and Wilfred are in the desert with no water or food. They find an oasis with dates and a well, and are then rescued by plane. They land in Africa, where two men have dug a mine and found a diamond. A tornado blows them into the mine, wher...

Pip, Squeak and Wilfred find a treasure map, which leads them to a chest of Spanish gold which they recover. Back at their lodging house, they get into trouble with the landlady, who sends a letter to Uncle Dick, who summons them home. They take a st...

On the beach, Pip, Squeak and Wilfred have their photo taken. Afterwards they climb a clifftop but drop their lunch over the top. Wilfred goes to rescue it, but is dropped into the sea by a seagull before being rescued. The trio decide to build a car...

Pip, Squeak and Wilfred pack their belongings in a trunk and rush to the station to catch a train to the seaside, with various misadventures on the way. At the beach, they swim and eat oysters....

Wilfred gets a longing to explore the great big world and sneaks out of bed whilst the others are asleep. He is captured by a mole and made to do all the housework. He escapes. Back at the house Pip and Squeak are missing him and call Mr Picklock Hol...

Squeak is still missing. Pip looks for her at London Zoo, Wilfred at the British Museum. Popski has Squeak in chains and will blow her up if she does not join the anarchists. Pip saves Squeak and Popski himself is blown up....

An animated film illustrating the British war effort....

Pip, a dog, and Squeak, a penguin, are the parents of Wilfred, a rabbit....