Editing Lancelot Speed (section)

==Films==

He was also the director of several early British silent films.

* Britain's Efforts<ref>{{Cite web |title=BRITAIN'S EFFORT : drawings by Lancelot Speed [Main Title] |url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060008269#:~:text=Full%20description,over%20a%20pile%20of%20weapons. |access-date=2024-10-12 |website=Imperial War Museums |language=en}}</ref>
* The Wonderful Adventures of Pip, Squeak and Wilfred series
** ''The Wonderful Adventures of Pip, Squeak And Wilfred''
** ''Pip And Wilfred Detectives''
** ''Wilfred's Wonderful Adventures''
** ''Over The Edge of the World''
** ''Popski's Early Life''
** ''The Castaways''
** ''The Six-Armed Image''
** ''Trouble in the Nursery''
** ''Ups And Downs''
** ''Wilfred's Nightmare''[[File:Lancelot through with Guinevere by Lancelot Speed.jpg|thumb|355x355px|Lancelot through with Guinevere by Lancelot Speed]]

Lancelot Speed's cartoon work is the source of the nickname for the colourful commander of the World War II Special Forces unit "[[Popski's Private Army]]". [[Lieutenant Colonel]] [[Vladimir Peniakoff]], DSO MC, a Belgian of [[White émigré|White Russian]] descent, was called "Popski" by Bill Kennedy Shaw, the Intelligence Officer of the [[Long Range Desert Group]] because his signallers had trouble with the spelling of his surname. Peniakoff earned early notoriety (and his MC) with his behind-the-lines raids to blow up German petrol dumps, transported there and back, in some exasperation, by the LRDG.{{citation needed|date=April 2014}}

In the ''[[Pip, Squeak and Wilfred]]'' adventures before the start of World War II, there were two hairy characters: one was a scheming, plotting, bomb-throwing Bolshevik, and the other was his dog. The mad Russian was called "[[Professor Wtzkoffski]]" and the dog was called "Popski". These cartoon characters in the ''[[Daily Mirror]]'' were well known to all the soldiers, and in his best-selling book about his small irregular unit, "Popski" said, "...I was delighted with my nickname...".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Peniakoff |first=Vladimir |title=Private Army |publisher=Cape |year=1950 |pages=116}}</ref>