#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)

[doodl-eo]

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

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[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]

Clangers and Bagpuss co-creator dies

Peter Firmin co-created the Clangers, Bagpuss and Basil Brush and received a Bafta in 2014.

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.

[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)

[spookdoodles]

bagpuss, dear bagpuss