Smallfilms
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Smallfilms is a British television production company that made animated TV programmes for children from 1959 until the 1980s. In 2014 the company began operating again, producing a new series of its
16 mm Bolex Camera used for all the Smallfilms programmes.
Bagpuss
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Bagpuss is a British animated children's television series which was made by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate through their company Smallfilms. The series of thirteen episodes was first broadcast from
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…series of short films were made using stop-motion animation, including Clangers, Noggin the Nog and Ivor the Engine. Another Smallfilms production, Bagpuss, came top of a BBC poll to find the favourite British children's programme of the 20th century. In 1957, Postgate was appointed a stage manager with…
Some of the characters from Bagpuss
The original Bagpuss puppet in the Beaney House of Art and Knowledge in Canterbury, June 2018.