#smallfilms

[mametzwood]

Bagpuss, oh, Bagpuss

Oh, fat, furry cat puss,

Wake up and look at the thing that I bring

Wake up, be bright, be golden and light.

Bagpuss, oh hear what I sing

[pinkapplejam]

Happy birthday to Bagpuss, 50 years old today ❤️

Here is my painting of the UK's favourite grandfatherly cat!

My most favourite of the Smallfilms characters, when I was very young I was at my great-grandmother's house in the Black Country and was asked to talk about what colour Bagpuss and friends all were, because she only had a black and white television 🩷

(🎨: Pentel brush pens and watercolours)

[drmopp1966]

IT’S BAGPUSS’S 50TH BIRTHDAY YALL

happy 50th to the silly pink cat!!

have a celebratory gabriel drawing

[downthetubes]

Celebrations begin early for the 50th anniversary of Bagpuss with new high definition Blu-ray and DVD release this week

Ahead of his 50th anniversary next year, this week sees the release of the hugely popular Bagpuss animated series in high definition - and there are other celebratory happenings, too

[airyell3000]

Had an amazing time at the @northhollywoodcinefest red carpet to promote a film I provided psychological consultation for, @inthebetween2022 🎥🎬 It premieres tomorrow Saturday, October 1st at 5 pm at the @lookcinemas in Glendale 🍿✨ Hope to see you there! Link to purchase tickets in my bio! . . . . . #RedCarpet #IndieFilm #IndieProject #SmallFilm #AccurateRepresentation #MentalHealth #MentalWellness #CaliLife #WorthIt (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjJfkj1P-Jd/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[biggsodorcitystories]

IVOR THE ENGINE!

It's my Mum's birthday today!

So, I was inspired to draw her favourite sentient engine, who is not an Awdry character, actually aired on UK television in 1959 - a full 25 years before Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends debut in 1984.

Meet Ivor the engine - a 0-4-0 tank engine - who works for The Merioneth and Llantisilly Railway Traction Company Limited, in the "top left-hand corner of Wales" with his driver, Jones the Steam.

While he never enjoyed the mass media success of his younger Sudrian counterpart, Ivor still has his small but devoted fanbase in the UK and deserves a little more love outside of it.

Unlike the Sudrian engines, Ivor:

Can swim, and has actually done so at the beach

Sings in a human choir

Enjoys making tea from his boiler

Has a dragon friend, Idris

So, I drew a humanised Ivor in the style of the humans in his show, along with Idris the Dragon.

Ivor the Engine and Idris are the creative property of Smallfilms and Oliver Postgate

[castleofcute]

I was thinking about the Watch With Mother vhs I used to watch, and couldn’t remember all the shows that featured so I decided to look it up. And I managed to find a site that had the whole thing uploaded onto it.

Definitely gonna watch this some other time.

[angryskarloey]

I'm sorry but Smallfilms:

[bunnziebobcat]

Fan Art Friday - Duke Phillips meets Bagpuss

This week's #FanArtFriday features Duke Phillips from Al Jean and Mike Reiss' The Critic (Gracie Films/CPT) meets Bagpuss (Smallfilms/BBC), who turned fifty this year, and they're celebrating the heavenly birthdays of Duke's voice artist, Charles Napier, and Bagpuss' co-creator, Oliver Postgate, respectively.

[pastedpast]

I'm at The Beaney House of Art & Knowledge in Canterbury. It has a rich and varied collection of artefacts from natural history, Ancient Egypt, Anglo-Saxon finds, items gathered on travels across Asia, Dutch stained glass and, closer to home, artworks relating to Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' and memorabilia related to the children's television programmes made at the 'Smallfilms' studio.

The museum takes its name from Dr. James George Beaney, who left a bequest for the building of 'an Institute for Working Men', with amenities for men from poor backgrounds like his own. The Charities Commission were persuaded (by the Mayor?) to use the money to build a new museum and library premises.

Will add more info later.

Re. Canterbury Cathedral: Unlike the cathedrals at Lincoln and Durham, both of which I have visited this year, entry is not free. In fact, it's £15.50! Suffice to say, I'll not be calling in.

[fmp2maxleighton]

Clangers is a British stop motion children’s television series created by Oliver Postgate and his company Smallfilms, who also created Bagpuss and Ivor the Engine, that debuted on BBC One in November 1969 and ending in October 1974, with a revival of the show debuting on CBeebies in June 2015. The show consisted of short films featuring the titular Clangers, a family pink mouse like creatures who live on a moon-like planetary object and speak only in whistles, alongside other characters like the Soup Dragon or the Froglets. Clangers can relate in a way to the FMP, with the idea of beings living on objects in space such as asteroids or other planets different to theirs.

[busstop]

On this #AppreciateADragonDay, let me show my appreciation for one of my childhood faves, Ivor The Engine, and his friends, Jones The Steam, and Idris, a Welsh dragon.

The TV series was one of many gems produced by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate's Smallfilms animation studio, which also made The Clangers and Bagpuss.

As well as spending many hours transfixed by these gentle, beautifully-made programmes, I also loved losing myself in my little library of Collins' Picture Lions, which also included Judith Kerr's Mog stories, and loads of Janet & Allan Ahlberg's wonderful books, including my eternal favourite, Burglar Bill!

[iconuk01]

This is a very, very sad day for me, and millions like me.

This is one mostly for Brits, but the legacy of Peter Firmin lives on in the memories of the millions of  children, across multiple generations, who grew up with his work; Bagpuss, The Clangers, Ivor the Engine, Pogle’s Wood...

He and Oliver Postgate between them, in a (somewhat) converted barn, and with equipment that a first year film student would deem as being below minimalist, produced some of the most imaginative, gorgeous, gentle and utterly, utterly delightful anmations ever created. Oliver Postgate passed on ten years ago, and had this wonderful obituary from the usually 110% acerbic reviewer and creator of Black Mirror, Charlie Brooker. Peter Firmin shares that legacy and will hopefully be remembered just as fondly.

[downthetubes]

Coming up: “Smallfilms … a reflection” online talk by Simon Postgate

Coming up: “Smallfilms … a reflection” online talk by Simon Postgate

Simon Postgate will be giving an online talk on his father Oliver Postgate’s film company Smallfilms on Wednesday – the producer of television shows such as Bagpuss, The Clangers and Noggin the Nog. Smallfilms was the company that produced children’s television programmes such as Bagpuss, The Clangers, Ivor the Engine, Noggin the Nog, Pogles Wood and The Pingwings. Set under construction for…

[worldfoodbooks]

BACK IN THE BOOKSHOP: THE ART OF SMALLFILMS - THE WORK OF OLIVER POSTGATE & PETER FIRMIN (2015) • Working from a cowshed on a farm in Kent, Oliver Postgate (1925–2008) and Peter Firmin (born 1928) produced some of the best-loved British children's animated television of the 1960s and 1970s. Their iconic productions include Bagpuss (originally aired in 1974), The Clangers (1969–74), Ivor The Engine (1975–77), Pogles' Wood (1966–68) and Noggin The Nog (1959–65). Postgate and Firmin worked together from 1959 through the 1980s, creating popular, beloved characters that appealed to children and their parents alike, like the whistling, mousy Clangers (knitted by Firmin's wife Joan in bright pink wool) in outer space, the saggy, baggy cloth cat Bagpuss and the mild-mannered Viking boy Prince Noggin. Firmin painted the backdrops and created the models, and Postgate wrote scripts, did the stop-motion filming and frequently recorded the kindly, avuncular narration. This book, which includes a preface by Postgate's son Daniel, presents the Smallfilms archive: the puppets and cutouts from these shows (including some of the characters who didn't quite make the cut), along with insights into how they were created. The emphatically handmade models and painstakingly drawn illustrations that came to life in the Smallfilms productions are captured here in attentive, detailed photographs. The archive is presented like "a collection of artifacts in an exhibition detailing some much-admired twentieth-century art movement, like Fluxus or Dada," as acclaimed English stand-up comedian Stewart Lee notes in his introduction. The Art of Smallfilms, full of pipe cleaners, cotton balls, wire and ping-pong balls, celebrates the imagination and ingenuity of two artists who shaped a generation's childhood. • Available via our website and in the bookshop. • #worldfoodbooks #smallfilms #oliverpostgate #peterfirmin #bagpuss #theclangers #pogleswood #ivortheengine #nogginthenog #fourcornersbooks #jonnytrunk #richardembray (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)

[jellofangy]

Originally an Instagram post but I was in a Bagpuss mood and drew an anthro of Professor Yaffle.

Bagpuss and all 60s/70s and 80s children’s shows are such wholesome things and Bagpuss is the most wholesome of them all fight me-