What is Charlie Strapp Froggy Ball And Their Friends (movie)?
{{Infobox film | name = Kalle Stropp, Grodan Boll och deras vänner | image = | caption = | producer = | writer = [[Thomas Funck]] | starring = [[Thomas Funck]] | director = [[Hasse Funck]] | distributor = [[Europafilm]] | released = {{Film date|df=y|1956|12|26|Sweden}} | runtime = 96 minutes | country = [[Sweden]] | language = [[Swedish language|Swedish]] | music = [[Thomas Funck]] | editing = [[Wic Kjellin]] | budget = | gross = }} '''''Kalle Stropp, Grodan Boll och deras vänner''''' is a 1956 Swedish live-action/stop-motion feature film directed by after an original script by [[Thomas Funck]], using Funck's already well-established characters. It was followed by a shorter animated film in 1987, ''[[Charlie Strapp and Froggy Ball Saves The Chicken (film)]]''. This is the first time since before 1987 where a Kalle Stropp production features voice acting by others than only Funck himself, only with the exception of children that had participated in other productions as well. == Plot == [[Thomas Funck]] sits with two children and finishes writing the film's subtitles. He begins to tell:It's early in the morning. A lot of baker-clad children collect eggs in a chicken farm. Then they go to the sleeping baker and wake him up, and the baking of the day's bread can begin. When the children later go out to deliver the bread to the customers and the bakery is empty, Kalle Stropp arrives there together with Grodan Boll, Plåt-Niklas, Räven and Papegojan. They are like little insects in the big bakery. But Plåt-Nikla's cure for this. He utters a magic formula, and immediately the bakery shrinks so that the little friends can work unhindered in it. Namely, they will bake a cake to court the guard parade who turns four years old. Without the bakers noticing anything, two sotis, Sot and Tos, sneak into the bakery and steal Plåt-Niklas' propeller which he carries on his back. Then they disappear. Plåt-Niklas discovers the loss, when it's time to whip cream, and becomes very sad. Shortly afterwards, the sotis make themselves kno