Oliver Postgate
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A blue plaque commemorating the life and work of the animator and author Oliver Postgate 1925 -2008. It is fixed to the house where his partner Naomi Linnell still lives.
Waymark Code: WMDRGK
Location: United Kingdom
Date Posted: 02/19/2012
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Oliver Postgate was the creator of some of the best loved children's television programs
ever made. During the 1960's and 70's he gave us the likes of Ivor The Engine, Noggin The
Nog, Bagpuss and my all time favourite, The Clangers. In collaboration with
Peter Firmin, they made the programs in their studio, a former an old cowshed
near Preston in Kent. In an age before computer wizardry, on a shoe-string
budget, Oliver and Peter's work were shot as single frame animation. Peter did
the artwork, Oliver wrote the scripts, did the filming along with most of the
voices. They produced 2 minutes of 16mm film frame by frame animation a day,
some 10 times as much as other animation studio's were producing.
Beneath the blue plaque is a
wonderful mosaic of Major and Tiny Clanger, by local artist Martin Cheek and
commissioned by Oliver's partner, Naomi Linnell.