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.
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.