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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Bagpuss
		Smallfilms was a partnership between Oliver Postgate (writer and narrator) and Peter Firmin (modelmaker and animator).
		Each programme would begin the same way: Through a series of sepia photographs, we are told of a little girl named Emily (played by Emily Firmin, the daughter of the illustrator Peter Firmin), who owned a shop.
		Television programs featuring anthropomorphic characters Smallfilms was a partnership between Oliver Postgate (writer and narrator) and Peter Firmin (modelmaker and animator).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bagpuss (0 words)

	Smallfilms
		SMALLFILMS, the production company that was formed in 1958 by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin, was responsible for creating a multitude of small films for children’s television during the 1960s and 70s.
		Their films became a staple of children’s television during a period when the programmes seem to have been less manic and more user-friendly than many of the ones we see today.
		There has also been a spate of enquiries from advertising firms wishing to 'use' Clangers to advertise their incongruous wares.
	www.freewebs.com /1969clangers/smallfil.htm (0 words)

	Toon News - Oliver Postgate's Noggin The Nog
		Smallfilms were producing series for nigh on 30 years, spanning generations.
		In each saga Nogbad pursues his plot to the very brink of success, but at the last moment his purposes are foiled by some unexpected piece of luck, cleverness or lack of attention on the part of the Nogs.
		In 1975, Smallfilms were very kindly given back the rights to the stories, and remade the original films, with some new ones, as a set of 40 five minute films in colour.
	www.toontalents.com /toonnewsoliverpostgate.htm (1157 words)

	Definition of Smallfilms
		Smallfilms was a partnership between Oliver Postgate (writer and narrator) and Peter Firmin (modelmaker and animator).
		As Smallfilms they made a number of classic British animated children's television programmes, including:
		The name "Smallfilms" is appropriate in a number of ways:
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Smallfilms (127 words)

	enthusiasm
		The first crop of features includes a piece on Oliver Postgate’s Smallfilms, known to long term readers as one of enthusiasm’s household gods.
		Oliver Postgate is the presiding genius, along with designer Peter Firmin, at Smallfilms, which created Clangers films between 1969 and 1972.
		Through an ecommercial entity called The Dragon’s Friendly Society, a good selection of the Smallfilms canon is available on video, and possibly even DVD by now, which is definitely a good thing.
	www.nexistepas.com /enthuse/index.php?tag=smallfilms (789 words)

	Animation Room: Clangers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Some alien species come to the Clagners' planet during the series: amongst them is the Iron Chicken (which is shot down and repaired by the Clangers) and the Froglets (which come out a top hat found in space by Small Clanger).
		The Clangers has all the rough-around-the-edges charm to be expected from Smallfilms: the stop-motion is pretty crude and jerky, while the Clangers themselves, when viewed in closeup, are quite plainly made out of knitted wool.
		Smallfilms also produced Ivor the Engine and Bagpuss.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /animationroom/clang.htm (416 words)

	Noggin the Nog
		Noggin the Nog was a popular British children's television series originally shown by the BBC during the years 1959 to 1965.
		Thirty programmes were made, originally in fl and white, by a company called Smallfilms, the brainchild of Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin.
		The level of animation was basic, but this did not detract from the popularity of the series.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/n/no/noggin_the_nog.html (222 words)

	Smallfilms: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		...Smallfilms Smallfilms Smallfilms was a partnership between Oliver Postgate...and animator).
		As Smallfilms they made a number of classic British animated children 's...
		...He was also the narrator for all the Smallfilms productions, and his distinctive voice became familiar to...
	www.encyclopedian.com /sm/Smallfilms.html (150 words)

	Noggin - TheBestLinks.com - Imperial unit, Slang, Smallfilms, Television, ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Noggin, Imperial unit, Slang, Smallfilms, Television, United Kingdom, United...
		From this, it is also used as a unit of liquid measure equal to one quarter of a pint — either 142 or 118 ml, depending on whether the Imperial or U.S. customary pint is meant.
		Noggin the Nog is a character in the eponymous series of books and television programmes made by the UK company Smallfilms.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Noggin.html (242 words)

	BBC - Cult - Classic TV - The Clangers Trivia
		Knit your own clanger: The original Clangers were knitted by Peter Firmin's wife, and had skeletons made of meccano, wood and brass ball joints.
		According to the Smallfilms approved Clangers site, the official knitting pattern is available from: Peter Gregory of G K P Ltd, Springmill House, Baildon, Shipley, West Yorkshire, BD17 6AD.
		Smallfilms, Small Set: The planet of the Clangers was built in Peter Firmin's barn.
	www.bbc.co.uk /cult/classic/clangers/trivia.shtml (429 words)

	SMALLFILMS (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Smallfilms era un'associazione fra Oliver Postgate e Peter Firmin.
		Come Smallfilms ha fatto i programmi televisivi un certo numero di bambini animati britannici classici, includere:
		Il nome "Smallfilms" è adatto in un certo numero di sensi:
	www.facteri.com /wiki/it/sm/Smallfilms.htm (85 words)

	Oliver Postgate
		Pogle's Wood, Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine, Clangers and Bagpuss, were all made by Smallfilms, the company he set up with Peter Firmin, and shown on the BBC between the 1950s and the 1970s.
		Setting up their business in a disused cowshed, Postgate and Firmin worked on children's programmes based on concepts and scripts which mostly originated with Postgate.
		He was also the narrator for all the Smallfilms productions, and his distinctive voice became familiar to generations of children.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/o/ol/oliver_postgate.html (230 words)

	Animation Room: Ivor the Engine (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ivor the Engine is the first of seven series from Smallfilms, a cowshed-based studio that Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin operated from 1958 to 1980.
		The 50s and 60s, were, of course, when TV animation started to take off: in America, Hanna-Barbara and Jay Ward were frantically simplifying their characters and settings to give them as much animation as possible; in Japan, Osamu Tezuka was using minimal animation to bring comic panels to life.
		The partly-personified Ivor - along with the red dragons - add an odd fantasy touch to what is otherwise Smallfilm's most realistic universe.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /animationroom/ivor.htm (316 words)

	OFF THE TELLY: Children's/Music of the Spheres
		I'd realized in 1998 that the work of Smallfilms had always been admired and cherished, but there were no soundtracks available.
		I had an entertaining chat with Peter Firmin, the designer of all things Smallfilms, and he kindly sent me the original sketches they had presented to the BBC in order to get the first series commissioned.
		Incidentally, Peter Firmin is currently redrawing all the images for a reissue of the Noggin The Nog books which originally appeared in about 1966.
	www.offthetelly.co.uk /childrens/clangersmusic.htm (1581 words)

	The Smallfilms Treasury
		Named after the society of dragons in the saga of Noggin the Nog, their first act is to produce a new set of Noggin material - a video, a book and a set of postcards.
		Pogles Wood is the story of woodland folk who lived "deep in the middle of a wood" in a tree with a magic bean plant.
		Pogles Wood was a Smallfilms Production, originally shown by the BBC between 1964 and 1968.
	www.smallfilms.co.uk (0 words)

	Toonhound - Ivor the Engine
		Welsh Dragon, a red-hot fellow who made his home in Ivor's boiler for a while...
		Ivor The Engine was the very first series to be produced by SmallFilms, the
		ITV commissioned the series after they viewed SmallFilms' two minute
	www.toonhound.com /ivorengine.htm (0 words)

	Smallfilms - Definitions from Dictionary.com
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	dictionary.reference.com /browse/Smallfilms (43 words)

	Ivor The Engine - Nostalgia Central (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Another fine five minute animation series from the prolific Smallfilms team of Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin.
		Ivor's boiler was fired by Idris the dragon and the little engines suitably Welsh ambition was to sing in the choir like his friend Evans the Song (not to run a fine drinking establishment then, like Pisshead the Pub?).
		Like many of the Smallfilms productions, Ivor The Engine was made in the barn of Peter Firmin's 18th century farmhouse near Canterbury, with the cowshed acting as his artists studio (Postgate was apparently assigned the pigsty).
	www.nostalgiacentral.com /tv/kids/ivortheengine.htm (313 words)

	Smallfilms was a partnership between Oliver Postgate Oliver Postgate writer... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Smallfilms was a partnership between Oliver Postgate Oliver Postgate writer...
		"Smallfilms" was a partnership between Oliver Postgate Oliver Postgate (writer and narrator) and Peter Firmin Peter Firmin (modelmaker and animator).
		Pingwings Pingwings The name "Smallfilms" is appropriate in a number of ways:
	www.biodatabase.de /Smallfilms (106 words)

	The Clangers
		The Clangers is a gentle, British stop motion animated television program for children made by Smallfilms who were Oliver Postgate (writer and narrator) and Peter Firmin (modelmaker, animator and illustrator).
		The first episode was broadcast by the BBC on November 16, 1969 and a further twenty-five episodes were made.
		It is interesting to note that the Tiny Clanger toy actually plays a line "spoken" by Major Clanger on the occasion when the large doors of the main cave jam as they are opening: "Oh sod it!
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/th/The_Clangers.html (335 words)

	MilkandCookies - Pingwings
		Pingwings was an animated B/W children's TV series of 18 ten-minute episodes broadcast in the UK during the early 1960's.
		Created by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin of Smallfilms, it starred a family of penguins who lived at the back of a barn on Berrydown Farm.
		The penguins were knitted and the animation was achieved using the stop motion technique, captured on 16mm film.
	www.milkandcookies.com /links/13613/detail (100 words)

	Clangers Episode Guide
		And once they find a way to use the musical notes that grow on trees to propel their space boat across the stars, they boldly explore as only a Clanger can do.
		The Clangers were created by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin, whose production company, Smallfilms, was responsible for some of the most well-known and well-loved children’s television ever made, including such classics as ‘Ivor the Engine’, ‘Noggin the Nog’, ‘Pogles’ / ‘Pogles Wood’ and ‘Bagpuss’.
		The 'Clangers' logo and all images from the television series are copyright Smallfilms unless otherwise stated; music is copyright the original composers and producers; no copyright infringement is intended.
	www.clivebanks.co.uk /Clangers%20intro.htm (517 words)

	Peter Firmin at AllExperts
		Peter Firmin (born in Essex in 1928) was the founder of Smallfilms, along with Oliver Postgate.
		Between them they created The Saga of Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine, The Clangers, Bagpuss and Pogles' Wood.
		Most of Smallfilms' animation was done in a shed in Kent.
	en.allexperts.com /e/p/pe/peter_firmin.htm (190 words)

	ipedia.com: The Clangers Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Clangers is a gentle, British stop motion animated children's television series made by Smallfilms who were Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin.
		The first episode was broadcast by the BBC on November...
		The Clangers is a gentle, British stop motion animated children's television series made by Smallfilms who were Oliver Postgate (writer and narrator) and Peter Firmin (modelmaker, animator and illustrator).
	www.ipedia.com /the_clangers.html (583 words)

	Oliver Postgate at AllExperts
		Pingwings, Pogles' Wood, Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine, The Clangers and Bagpuss, were all made by Smallfilms, the company he set up with Peter Firmin, and were shown on the BBC between the 1950s and the 1980s, and on ITV from 1959 to the present day.
		He was also the narrator for all the Smallfilms productions, as well as many minor productions including the WereBear story tapes, and his distinctive voice became familiar to generations of children.
		In the 1970s and 1980s Postgate was active in the Anti-nuclear campaign, addressing meetings and writing several pamphlets including The Writing on the Sky.
	en.allexperts.com /e/o/ol/oliver_postgate.htm (448 words)

	Noggin the Nog at AllExperts
		Noggin the Nog was a popular British children's television series originally shown by the BBC in the United Kingdom during the years 1959 to 1965.
		Thirty-six programmes were made, originally in fl and white, and running for ten minutes long, by a company called Smallfilms, the brainchild of Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin.
		When the program made a comeback in 1979, it only ran for just six episodes.
	en.allexperts.com /e/n/no/noggin_the_nog.htm (417 words)

	Kids TV (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Well, it seems to have been a popular topic of conversation for a while now so I figured I'd add my memories on the subject.
		SmallFilms were made on a very low budget, with humble beginnings in Oliver's spare room in Finchley before upgrading to a cow shed in Kent.
		Below are a selection of websites featuring some of the programmes I loved as a kid.
	www.schrodingers-cat.com /kidstv.htm (160 words)

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