Children of the Revolution - William Rivers

Short sequence for a BBC documentary "The Children Who Built Victorian Britain" Broadcast February 2011. William Rivers was 6 when he joined HMS Victory and 12 when he fought and was wounded in the Battle of Trafalgar. Holbrook films, who created this animation were asked to compete at the Sundance Festival with their graduate film “t.o.m.” and they too learned their trade at Newport Animation School. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t6t3r