Smallfilms

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:

* Noggin the Nog
* Pogles' Wood
* The Clangers
* Bagpuss
* Ivor the Engine
* Pingwings
*

The name "Smallfilms" is appropriate in a number of ways:
*The company was small;
*The company made short films;
*Its films were intended for small people, i. e., children.

External links

* The Big Cartoon DataBase entry for [http://www.bcdb.com/cartoons/Other_Studios/S/S-_Miscellany/Smallfilms/ Smallfilms]
* [http://www.smallfilms.co.uk/ The Smallfilms Treasury]
* [http://www.smallfilms.co.uk/smallf.htm Smallfilms filmography]
* [http://freespace.virgin.net/noggin.the.nog/index.htm Noggin the Nog tribute site]
* [http://www.dragons-friendly-society.co.uk/main.htm link to publishers of Smallfilms stuff]


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