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King Rollo Series (October December 1980) [VHSRip (XviD)]

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Programme Description (source: Wikipedia):

King Rollo was a children's character created by David McKee in 1979, starring in a series of books, animations (narrated by Ray Brooks), and a comic strip in the magazine Buttons. In all, thirteen episodes of the animation were produced in 1980, by McKee's own King Rollo Films.

The central character of the stories was Rollo himself, a child-like King who was always in need of advice and assistance from his friends. Among these were The Magician, Cook (arguably the real ruler of the kingdom), his neighbour, Queen Gwen, King Frank, and perhaps most importantly, Rollo's cat, Hamlet, who was generally portrayed as wiser than Rollo himself.

The animations used the same distinctive colourful cut-out paper look as McKee's other works, such as Mr Benn, and one memorable aspect was that the characters' legs would rotate outwards when walking until they were at right-angles at the sides of their body.

Notes:

These episodes were transferred from 20-year-old VHS cassettes. As such, they're a little degraded in places - though I've cleaned them up a bit, and they're still watchable. :)

For more information about the series, a detailed description can be found here: http://www.thechestnut.com/rollo.htm



Technical Information:

--- Pack Information ---
Total Size: 585 MB
Total Duration (hh:mm:ss): 1:05:13

--- File Information ---
Average Size: 45 MB
Average Duration (mm:ss): 5:01

--- Video Information ---
Video Codec Name: XviD 1.2.1
frame Size: 576 x 432 pixels (AR: 1.333 = 4:3)
frames per Second: 25
Average Video Bitrate: 1082 kbps
Average Frame Quality: 0.174 bpp

--- Audio Information ---
Audio Codec: 0x0055 MPEG-1 Layer 3
Audio Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
Audio Bitrate: 160 kbps [2 channel(s)] VBR


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