Captain Grogg takes a swim
About Captain Grogg takes a swim
Captain Grogg and the ship's boy Kalle go into the water, and Grogg exercises on the beach. Two monkeys take their clothes and drink from Grogg's flask. Once the monkeys are drunk, Grogg and Kalle get the clothes back. The clothes are full of lice.
Cast & crew
More about Captain Grogg takes a swim
Victor Bergdahl animated Kapten Grogg badar for Svenska Biografteatern. The Swedish Film Database measured 202 meters, passed by the censor on 26 September 1919 (number 22402) for all ages, and timed at 10 minutes at 18 frames a second. It opened at the Regina in Stockholm on 6 October 1919. The database adds that the animation is less elaborate than in the Grogg films just before it.
Themes
Making
Bergdahl drew Grogg, the red-nosed captain, and Kalle as paper figures and photographed them a frame at a time. On this short the Swedish Film Database says the work is plainer than the jungle and polar cartoons of the same year and the year before.
Preservation
The Swedish Film Database logs cinematheque screenings on 29 March 1973 and 1 November 1990.
Notes
- Finnish distribution titles include Kapteeni Naukkunen kylpee and Kapteeni Grogg kylpee.
- The production number in the Swedish Film Database is SF 2747.
- Svenska Biografteaterns Filmbyrå distributed the 35mm print.
- Cinematheque screenings are logged for 29 March 1973 and 1 November 1990.
- It is the swim cartoon, not the 1917 North Pole film in which the bear drinks the same kind of flask.
Scenes
- Grogg exercises while the monkeys make off with the clothes.
- The monkeys empty his flask. He and Kalle recover the suits only after the thieves are drunk, and the cloth is crawling.
