Film Fun

Film Fun was a British comic book that ran from (issues dates) 17 January 1920 to 15 September 1962, when it merged with Buster, a total of 2225 issues. There were also annuals in the forties and fifties. It was renamed Film Fun and Thrills in 1959. As the title suggests, the comic mainly featured comic strip versions of people from films from the 1920s to the 1960s. Pre-war circulation at its peak was around 800,000 copies per week.

The cover of the first edition featured Harold Lloyd but named as "Winkle", the screen name by which he was known in Britain at the time.

Eddie the Happy Editor

Frederick George Cordwell was better known to Film Fun fans as Eddie the Happy Editor. Cordwell edited the comic until his death in 1949, aged 62 in Richmond, Surrey. Cordwell wrote many scripts for the strips as well as text stories for Film Fun. He introduced the idea of characters receiving huge plates of bangers and mash, giant Christmas puddings, pies and such from grateful beneficiaries of their efforts. Cordwell even made it into the stories himself, meeting Laurel and Hardy a number of times, Joe E Brown, Wheeler and Woolsey and other characters.

Film Fun (TV series)

Film Fun was a Canadian children's television miniseries on animation filmmaking which aired on CBC Television from 1974 to 1976.

Premise

This Ottawa-produced programme featured the techniques of filmmaking for a young audience, focusing on animation. Briam Smyth hosted the series with filmmaking siblings Bryan and Nancy Stoller. Guests such as Don Arioli (National Film Board of Canada), Ben McPeek (composer), Ken Perkins (Winnipeg animator), Sebatian (Montreal film producer). One location segment featured computer animation at the National Research Council.

Scheduling

This five-episode half-hour series aired Wednesdays at 5:00 p.m. (Eastern) between 4 December 1974 and 15 January 1975. Episodes were rebroadcast on Tuesdays at 5:00 p.m. from 5 to 26 October 1976.

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