A woman reads the story of Little Red Riding Hood to a young girl.

Add to the list of almost forgotten animator the name of Ernest J. Anson Dyer. From the middle of the 1910s he worked as an animator and later director of movie cartoons. Also, during the 1940s, he controlled the only Technicolor cameras in western Europe.

This part-live-part-animated movie released through Hepworth has its animated segments looking a bit odd to fans of studio-era cartoons. The backgrounds are very elaborate for the period, the character designs likewise, but the animation is only partial, with limbs moving when appropriate. Drawn animation has always been outrageously expensive, and this sort of movement was cheaper to produce than full body movement through every frame.

Given the familiarity of the story - Heck, Disney produced his first version of the story the same year -- and the oddity of the techniques, this is interesting more as a curiosity than otherwise.

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