Charlie Strap and Froggy Ball Flying High

Charlie Strapp and Froggy Ball Flying High Swedish Kalle Stropp och Grodan Boll p svindlande ventyr is a 1991 Swedish animated feature film directed by Jan Gissberg after an original script by Thomas Funck, using Funcks already wellestablished characters. It follows a shorter film made by the same team in 1987, Kalle Stropp och Grodan Boll rddar Hnan. This is the first time since before 1954 where a Kalle Stropp production features voice acting by others than only Funck himself, only with the exception of children that had participated in other productions as well.

In the early 1980s, Charlie Strapp and Froggy Ball were frequently featured in various Swedish radio series during the summers. When listening to one of these Jan Gissberg got the idea of making an animated film about them and contacted Thomas Funck. Together they discussed the desirable appearances of the characters and settings. The project was to be produced by Gissbergs own recently started animation studio, Cinemation Industries, where also his brother Peter Gissberg worked as a background artist. Around Christmas 1987 a short film was released, but already a year prior to that, they had begun working on a script for a featurelength film. In 1987 they started the process of making it, using a budget ofmillion SEK.The general Swedish reception was positive, with more or less a critical consensus claiming that it stood out as the winner among the films competing over a similar target audience, being released around the same time as RockADoodle, The Rescuers Down Under and An American Tail Fievel Goes West. The playful style and rich ideas were complimented, and the poetic background art by Peter Gissberg was particularly praised. ........

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