Ludvig- Paper animation

Paper cut out animated series

Ludwig is an animated series of 25 x 4 minute episodes, made by the Czechoslovakian  father and son team, Mirek and Peter Lang in the seventies. 
Ludvig was basic in many ways but incredibly well thought out in its subtleties, due to the makers having English as their second language there was a simple narration by John Glover (iludvig 2013) This avoided the need for lip syncing.
Ludvig was a great lover of Beethoven so the predominant soundtrack was various pieces by this composer. Ludvig also played violin, which would be produced from one of his many faceted secret compartments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ThMmLVWZo8

Ludvig was a mechanical creature and the presentation of him in the animation is quite jerky, I wonder if his personality and appearance came to being because of their technique, they began at home;basic equipment, kitchen table. Was it the resulting appearance that informed the character?  The light is constantly changing in the cartoon which for me watching as a child didn't bother me in the slightest and now when I watch adds to the atmosphere. This is partly the reason I have not set up 'studio lighting conditions' in some of my experiments as I just wanted to see if the animation was enhanced in any way by this occurrence of changing light. You can see my attempt at paper cut out animation in the Walk Cycle post.
As I am currently finding, the more frames per second; less movement from frame to frame, makes for a much smoother animation. So the mechanization of Ludvig is made more believable by the jerky movements. Also with the choice of small animals and birds, they are all naturally twitchy in their movement, constantly on their guard as they are all prey to larger creatures. If I imaging this cartoon with horses and cows, which naturally move much more fluidly it would look very odd. I feel this is a key discovery which I will consider in my experiments; turning limitations into assets.  
He was found by magpies and dropped off in the forest, it is unclear where he is from but he is an alien of sorts. It is clear that he is unfamiliar with the objects he finds which have been discarded by humans. The makers were very interested in lateral thinking and logic puzzels and this comes through in the animation as Ludvig presents the animals with his scavenged objects and they then proceed to laterally work out the use of the items.

This cartoon, though quite 'off the wall' in that familiar 70's way, it still was i feel educational. It sparked imagination and didn't take the direct route to solve the problems that were presented in each episode.