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Seeing things / Oliver Postgate.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Postgate, Oliver.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Postgate, Oliver.
- Animators--Great Britain--Biography.
- Animators.
- Animated television programs--Great Britain.
- Animated television programs.
- Children's television programs--Great Britain.
- Children's television programs.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (425 p., [16] p. of plates ) ill. (chiefly col.), ports. (some col.)
- Edition:
- [New] ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Canongate, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Oliver Postgate wrote, narrated and filmed Bagpuss, The Clangers, Ivor the Engine, Noggin the Nog and Pogle's Wood, among many others. This autobiography covers his years as a conscientious objector, farmer, inventor and filmmaker. Oliver Postgate is widely regarded as the greatest children's storyteller of the modern era. His work, which included The Clangers, Ivor the Engine, The Pogles, Noggin the Nog and, most famously, Bagpuss, is beloved by generations. In this delicious memoir Oliver Postgate describes how he came to create his stories and characters, developing innovative techniques of animation and puppetry alongside his friend and co-producer Peter Firmin. Amazingly, almost all of Oliver's films were made in a cowshed in Kent on a budget of next to nothing. The story of Oliver Postgate's extraordinary and adventurous life, and the wonderful characters who populated it - both real and imagined - is witty, charming, beautifully remembered and exquisitely told.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- FOREWORD
- DISCLAIMER
- Chapter One: STROKING BEES
- Chapter Two: A HOUSE, THREE SCHOOLS AND A WAR
- Chapter Three: STIRRING IT UP
- Chapter Four: RURAL PURSUITS
- Chapter Five: THE HONEY-BARREL
- Chapter Six: TREADING THE BOARDS
- Chapter Seven: RATTLING THE BARS
- Chapter Eight: STARTING AGAIN
- Chapter Nine: SMALLFILMS
- Chapter Ten: TAKING TIME
- Chapter Eleven: MAINSTREAM
- Chapter Twelve: COLOURING IN
- Chapter Thirteen: LOOKING OUTWARDS
- Chapter Fourteen: LOOKING INWARDS
- Chapter Fifteen: THE WINDOW
- Chapter Sixteen: AFRICA AND AFTER
- Chapter Seventeen: DECADE OF DEMENTIA
- Chapter Eighteen: CHANGING DIRECTION
- FURRY TAILPIECE
- Afterword
- Copyright.
- Notes:
- This ed. originally published: 2009.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781847678423
- 1847678424
- OCLC:
- 1255224440
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