Captain Grogg Has Become Fat

Name: Captain Grogg Has Become Fat
Director: Victor Bergdahl
Genre: Animation
Released: 1922
Duration: 6 min

1922 Animation 6 minutes Directed by Victor Bergdahl

About Captain Grogg Has Become Fat

Captain Grogg, the red-nosed skipper, tries to deal with the weight he has put on. His sailor Kalle is the other figure in the series.

Cast & crew

Victor Bergdahl Director

More about Captain Grogg Has Become Fat

Victor Bergdahl animated this Captain Grogg short. Swedish Wikipedia's series list gives six minutes. Filmbladet lists a Swedish premiere of July 31, 1922. Grogg, drawn from 1916, is an older, short-tempered captain who drinks. Kalle is the younger sailor with him. Bergdahl made thirteen Grogg films, using paper cut-outs in front of drawn backgrounds. This is the last of them.

Themes

a fat skipper
the last Grogg short
Captain Grogg
Kalle
cut-out animation
Victor Bergdahl
weight

Making

The figures are paper dolls photographed against a drawn background, the method Bergdahl used through the Grogg series.

Notes

The Swedish title is Kapten Grogg har blivit fet.
Bergdahl's first Grogg film, Kapten Groggs underbara resa, opened on August 14, 1916.
A comic-strip version of Grogg began in the magazine Kasper in 1919.
The series character's full name in Swedish accounts is Fileas Grogg.
After 1922 Bergdahl moved to animated advertising. His last film was the 1936 sex-education short Från cell till människa.