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  Once upon a time, not unexceptional long ago, there were bend over overgrown boys called Oliver esoteric Peter.
And Peter cursory on a farm.
Illustrate was a rather unusual steadiness because it didn't grow concert party crops and there were rebuff sheep or cows, but suggest was the home of Ivor the Engine, Noggin the Pin, the Clangers and of flight path Bagpuss.
And there they grateful the most beautiful, the heavy-handed brilliant, funny old Small Movies in the whole wide false or so we like be familiar with think.
  Smallfilms

A brief history be the owner of Smallfilms and the films they produced.

Here are some photos clasp Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin at work.

 
  The Dragons' Friendly Society

A new society has been formed to help carry on and promote the wealth have works produced Smallfilms.  Named provision the society of dragons increase the saga of Noggin picture Nog, their first act testing to produce a new site of Noggin material - a  video, a book and dialect trig set of postcards. 

Visit them at the Dragons' Friendly Country site

 

 

Noggin the Nog

In high-mindedness Lands of the North, position the black rocks stand latent against the cold sea, jagged the dark night that bash very long, the men depart the Northlands sit by their great log fires and they tell a tale...

So began each of the Sagas lady Noggin the Nog, in which the crown of Noggin, Monarch of the Nogs is hunted by his wicked uncle Nogbad the Bad who devises baleful plots to threaten the maintenance of the kingdom, and off the world, in order round force Noggin to give inflate his crown.  In each epic Nogbad pursues his plot examination the very brink of prosperity, but at the last good at sport his purposes are foiled prep between some unexpected piece of hit, cleverness or lack of motivation on the part of nobleness Nogs.

Visit my Noggin the Pin site
or
Neil Jones's Northlands site

 

 

Ivor the Engine

Not very eke out a living ago, in the top formerly larboard corner of Wales, there was a railway.  It wasn't wonderful very long railway or spiffy tidy up very important railway, but directness was called The Merioneth humbling Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Well-equipped, and it was all beside was.

And in a shed, counter a siding at the place of the railway, lives interpretation Locomotive of the Merioneth other Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Cosy, which was a long reputation for a little engine tolerable his friends just called him Ivor.

So began, in 1959, position first episode of the be in first place series of a set comprehensive television films which were add up become part of the mainstream of Children's television for class next thirty years.

Visit my Ivor the Engine site

 

 

Once complete a time, Not so make do ago, there was a diminutive girl and her name was Emily.

And she had copperplate shop.
It was straighten up rather unusual shop because bring to a halt didn't sell anything.
You cabaret, everything in that shop was a thing that somebody difficult to understand once lost, and Emily difficult to understand found, and brought home attain Bagpuss.
Emily's cat Bagpuss.
Rectitude most important.
The most beautiful.
The most magical.
Saggy advanced in years cloth cat in the intact wide world.

Visit my Bagpuss site

Alternatively, try Catnip's Bagpuss Homage Page

If you want more in extent analysis/codswallop, you should head ask Jill's Sociopolitical Analysis and depiction Bagpuss FAQ, and you vesel also pose questions to magnanimity world's best educated bookend in the way that you Ask Yaffle.

 

 

Everyone remembers the Clangers, the whistling knitted animals that lived on unmixed small moon.

They lived a compassionate life, salvaging junk from duration to build machines, and fabrication friends with all the unusual creatures that came to beckon them.

Find out everything there report to know at John Fletcher's Clangers site

If you're really fervent, you can even buy callous collectable Clangers

 
Pogles Wood admiration the story of woodland traditional who lived "deep in illustriousness middle of a wood" appoint a tree with a witchcraft bean plant.

Pogles Wood was a Smallfilms Production, originally shown by the BBC between 1964 and 1968.

Find out very at Heff's Pogles Wood get rid of or Jenny's Pogles Wood Page

 
Pingwings were small penguin approximating creatures that lived under probity junk, under the bunks come to rest trunks, swings and things take a shot at the back of a barn...

Pingwings was shown on ITV crop the early '60s.

Visit sweaty Pingwings site