Harmsen van der Beek

The result was the creation of the Noddy series for young children, authored by Enid Blyton - still a major property for animators half a century later.

The conscious intention to create a Disney-style sympathetic focus character — a European Mickey Mouse — was reportedly a major factor.

[2] Beek's wife, Freddie Langeler (1899–1948), herself an artist, wrote the rhyming text for the strip and coloured in the drawings.

In 1936, a printer named De IJssel produced a cardboard theatre which could be used to display the comic strip as a slide show.

It was dubbed the "Flipposcoop" (Flipposcope) and Flipje appeared in a special strip with instructions on how to assemble and load the theatre.