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The Arrow

1969 (estimated) College Project British Film Institute

Studio
British Film Institute

Characters

Little Man

Credits

Directing

Director
Mel Calman

Writing

Writer
Mel Calman

Animation

Animator
Mel Calman

Production notes

Included in the 1978 feature film "Long Shot."

Based on Mel Calman's newspaper cartoons, which regularly featured a naif-style "little man" character. Influenced by James Thurber, he said that his "little man" was "not autobiographical. At least not totally."