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The Castaways (Original title)
Date: 1921 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Under the direction of: Lancelot Speed

Synopsis: "After falling overboard they spent days in the life-buoy. Their only food was butter; and you soon get tired of only butter." A fish spots Pip, Squeak and Wilfred adrift and tells his mermaid wife to make a soup from them but she pushes them ashore instead. They land in Egypt and take a camel ride to see pyramids and a sphinx. Their leaves them stranded in the desert. They find a giant egg and try to cook it but a crocodile hatches out and chases them away.

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Animation

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