Meet Giles, Cartoonist

1945 , Ipswich (Suffolk)

Cat no. 823

A newsreel item showing Carl Giles, the popular Daily Express cartoonist, at home and around Ipswich.

The Daily Express cartoonist gathers information at Ipswich cattle market and the docks. In the garden of his home, he works on a cartoon. His wife brings him tea. He gets into his car and speeds down country roads to the Swan Inn. Some of his cartoons are featured.

Featured Buildings

Swann Inn

Keywords

Cartoonists; Cartoons

Background Information

The following information is from www.cartoons.ac.uk/article/giles: In 1943 Giles moved to Ipswich, where he set up a studio. A motor-cycle accident had left him blind in one eye and deaf in one ear, so he was rejected for war service, but during the war he made cartoon films for the Ministry of Information, including One Pair of Nostrils for the Ministry of Health, and, in 1944, The Grenade. His cartoons were also reproduced as posters for the Railway Executive Committee and others. In 1945 he became the Daily Express "War Correspondent Cartoonist" with the 2nd Army. Giles was best known for his Express "family", which first appeared in a published cartoon on 5 August 1945, and had enormous popular appeal.

Director : Terry Ashwood
Producer : Harry Thomas
Camera : Vivian Brann
Editor : Winifred Cooper
Commentator : Kenneth Horne
Script : Alec Bristow

Manifestations

Meet Giles, Cartoonist

Genre: Arts / Newsreel
Locations: Ipswich (Suffolk)
Description Type: monographic
Related to: Pathe Pictorial
Subject: livestock markets / Carl Giles / cartoons

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