A Collection of material formerly the property of, and relating to, the film animator Charles 'Joe' Noble (1894-1984)
A Moy & Bastie 35mm. wood-body cinematograph camera no. 429 with two film magazines and label Ernest F. Moy Ltd., Manufacturing Electrical Engineers, London NW1; another similar no. 377 with a Zeiss/Krauss Tessar lens; a wood-body Standard Enlarger; seven panels holding printed material relating to Noble and his work.

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A Moy & Bastie 35mm. wood-body cinematograph camera no. 429 with two film magazines and label Ernest F. Moy Ltd., Manufacturing Electrical Engineers, London NW1; another similar no. 377 with a Zeiss/Krauss Tessar lens; a wood-body Standard Enlarger; seven panels holding printed material relating to Noble and his work.
Literature
FTT (November 1984), obituary, p. 12.
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Lot Essay

The panels contain: nine typescript film synopsis, seventy-two film cels, manuscript material and cuttings.
Until his death in 1984 Noble was Britain's oldest active film animator. He joined Mitchell's Pictures when he was 23 as a title designer and later worked for Kine Komedy Kartoons and the BJ Film Producing Co. He produced many successful cartoons for general release including Dismal Desmond, Pongo the Pup and Sammy & Sausage.

In 1928 he was granted a patent for a sound carton film system and in November he released the first British talking cartoon Orace the 'Armonious 'Ound, later completing the first animated sound-film commercial Mr York of York, Yorks.

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