Captain Grogg and Other Strange Creatures

Name: Captain Grogg and Other Strange Creatures
Director: Victor Bergdahl
Genre: Animation
Released: 1921
Duration: 7 min

1921 Animation 7 minutes Directed by Victor Bergdahl

About Captain Grogg and Other Strange Creatures

Captain Grogg and Kalle meet a run of animals that do not belong in one place. A kangaroo and an ostrich are among them. The Swedish title is Kapten Grogg bland andra konstiga kroppar, the eleventh Grogg short.

Cast & crew

Victor Bergdahl Director

More about Captain Grogg and Other Strange Creatures

Victor Bergdahl directed the cartoon for Svenska Biografteatern. Svenska Biografteaterns Filmbyrå distributed it. A Swedish listing gives the premiere as 31 July 1921. The series table on Swedish Wikipedia times it at 7 minutes. It sits between Kapten Grogg på Stora Oceanen and Kapten Grogg skall fiska.

Themes

One captain, several species
A kangaroo and an ostrich in the same reel
Captain Grogg
Kalle
kangaroo
ostrich
cut-out animation

Making

By 1921 Bergdahl was still photographing paper cut-outs himself for Biografteatern. The animal reel uses that same captain and boy against a mix of beasts rather than one chase.

Notes

Bergdahl made thirteen Grogg cartoons from 1916 through 1922. This is number eleven.
The captain is the red-nosed Fileas Grogg. Kalle is the younger sailor who travels with him.
A comic-strip version of Grogg, drawn by Bergdahl, had already started in the magazine Kasper in 1919.
The next short, Kapten Grogg skall fiska, is the fishing cartoon of the same year.