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    We shall gather together in the long twilit nights…

    … and tell tales of a good and wise artist and puppeteer.

    Peter Firmin dies aged 89

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44674652

    #2
    A legend, and a much loved childhood memory. Although having a little browse now, it's clear that I didn't quite grasp, as a child, the role that warm socks seem to have played in the minds of the kings and princes beyond those black rocks.

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      #3
      RIP to a man who brought so much joy to so many children, of multiple generations. Wonderful creations, gentle stories, enduring brilliance. And Emily loved him.

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        #4
        That's an impressive list of programmes. A man I couldn't pick out in a line-up, creating countless childhood memories.

        RIP.

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          #5
          He was a genius. Ivor the Engine captivates my 4 year old nephew even now. Bagpuss and the Clangers are just brilliant. Noggin the Nog was wonderful.

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            #6
            RIP indeed. A huge talent and a very decent person. As I'll have mentioned before, the Firmins (and Postgates) were family friends when I was at school in Canterbury and I have happy memories of the garden shed/studio where Smallfilms was run. (I even had opportunity to create a planet or two for the backdrop of The Clangers.)

            Not to destroy too much of the myth and the magic, but there were two of most puppets - and at least three Bagpusses...

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              #7
              Bagpi?

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                #8
                Originally posted by Patrick Thistle View Post
                He was a genius. Ivor the Engine captivates my 4 year old nephew even now. Bagpuss and the Clangers are just brilliant. Noggin the Nog was wonderful.
                Mrs b and I and friends went to an exhibition of Firmin & Postgate's work a few years ago at the Lowry - it was a close-run thing as to whether our generation, or our friends' kids (5 and 7 y.o.) were more awestruck.

                I think there's still a place for gentle, slow-moving kids' telly even in today's colour-saturated, shouty, thousand-miles-per-hour TV world.

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                  #9
                  Mrs. House Cat and I had a cat called Baggpuss. I was particularly fascinated by Noggin the Nog. Nogbad the Bad used to scare my cousin.
                  Last edited by adams house cat; 02-07-2018, 13:45.

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                    #10
                    I remember seeing an interview with Emily who said while Bagpuss looked soft he was basically a meccano set covered with cloth

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                      #11
                      Originally posted by Jah Womble View Post
                      RIP indeed. A huge talent and a very decent person. As I'll have mentioned before, the Firmins (and Postgates) were family friends when I was at school in Canterbury and I have happy memories of the garden shed/studio where Smallfilms was run. (I even had opportunity to create a planet or two for the backdrop of The Clangers.)

                      Not to destroy too much of the myth and the magic, but there were two of most puppets - and at least three Bagpusses...
                      Well even on the show there's three.

                      One with his eyes closed, one with his eyes open, and one in sepia…

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                        #12
                        (They have this thing called 'stop motion'...)

                        Originally posted by elguapo4 View Post
                        I remember seeing an interview with Emily who said while Bagpuss looked soft he was basically a meccano set covered with cloth
                        Yep, pretty much AFAIR: most of the puppets were constructed from Meccano-type frames.

                        Emily was/is the youngest of the six Firmin daughters (one of whom I briefly went out with when I was fourteen) - all of whom went on to have artistic careers of one form or another. (Their mother also, however I forget in what capacity.)

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                          #13
                          I've been spending a lovely couple of evenings rewatching old episodes of Pogles Wood.

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                            #14
                            When Oliver Postgate died.

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