Mark Juddery introduces The Story of the Kelly Gang, possibly the first-ever feature film, now largely lost, that was made a hundred years ago in Australia about the notorious outlaw with the unusual body-armour. Hugely popular when it was first released in 1906, it spawned a genre of bushranger movies and epitomized the significance of the Kelly legend in Australian cultural identity.
Mark Bryant looks at the first political cartoon – and one of the most influential ever – to be published in America.
The artist Angelica Kauffman died on November 5th, 1807, aged sixty-six.
Continuing his series on how cartoonists have seen events great and small, Mark Bryant looks at the coverage of one of ‘Victoria’s little wars’.
Richard Cavendish remembers the life of Louis B. Mayer, who died on October 29th, 1957.
Continuing his series on how cartoonists have seen events great and small, Mark Bryant looks at the impact of Sputnik, the first artificial satellite to be put into Earth orbit and a Soviet triumph in the Cold War.
Mark Bryant looks at the way caricaturists viewed the scandal engulfing France at the end of the 19th century.
Mark Bryant discovers the world’s first cartoon character, who sold large numbers of books, and all manner of merchandising.
Andrew Robinson recalls conversations with the famous director about his work, and in particular the recently re-released Urdu film, The Chess Players, made in the 1970s, which explores events surrounding the British annexation of Oudh in 1856.
Mark Bryant describes the life and works of Abu Abraham, the Observer’s first ever political cartoonist.
