Brian Cosgrove as "The Magic Ball" and "Sally And Jake". After Stop Frame Productions was shut down both Cosgrove and Hall founded Cosgrove Hall Films there they produced some of the most well known animated children's shows and films in Britain such as "Danger Mouse", "Count Duckula", "The Wind in the Willows", which would later become a 52-episode TV series, "Noddy's Toyland Adventures", "Bill and Ben" and "Fifi and the Flowertots" until 2009. In 1989, Cosgrove directed and produced the animated feature film "The BFG", based on the Roald Dahl novel of the same name. According to Cosgrove, this is one of
Animated series and Ferb", "Gravity Falls", "Rugrats", "Hey Arnold!", "The Fairly OddParents" and "Steven Universe." Animated series shown in movie theatres include the "Tom and Jerry" animated cartoon short films that appeared in movie theaters from 1940 to 1967. Direct-to-video animated series include most Japanese original video animations (OVAs). The first OVA series (and also the first overall OVA) was "Dallos" (1983). Almost all hentai (pornographic) anime series are released as OVAs. Animated web series first appeared in the late 1990s, with the first internet animated cartoon series, "The Goddamn George Liquor Program" (1997–1998), followed by other early series that included "WhirlGirl",