PSA: Toy Tales
Cartoon Museum, Little Russell Street, London
Toy Tales features some of the most popular animated children’s programmes produced in Britain over the last fifty years. Watched by generations of children - and adults - these animated characters retain the power to entertain and enchant long after they first appeared.
The exhibition has something for children and parents alike. There are over 100 items on show including drawn backgrounds and cut-outs, models, posters, animation cels and even a Clangers set. It provides insights into the creative process of animation including scripts, storyboards, preparatory drawings, animators’ notes and ‘animatics’ [early versions] as well as clips from the various films.
More here: http://www.cartoonmuseum.org/
Anyone who saw the two Canterbury Clangers/Postgate restrospectives will be familiar with the Smallfilms stuff - Clangers set, the Bagpuss, (but did you know Prof Yaffle was part inspired by G.D.H. Cole and part by Bertrand Russell?), backgrounds for Ivor the Engine, Noggin the Nog, etc. Plus Roobarb and Custard, Wallace and Gromit, The Snowman, Famous Fred, Bob the Builder and something called Pepa Pig
Plus:
Making Things: An Evening with Peter Firmin
Wednesday 1st Septemeber 6.30-7.30, 020 75808155 Adults £5, Concessions £4.
He's getting on a bit, but he seemed hale and hearty when I sat next to him late last year.
Toy Tales features some of the most popular animated children’s programmes produced in Britain over the last fifty years. Watched by generations of children - and adults - these animated characters retain the power to entertain and enchant long after they first appeared.
The exhibition has something for children and parents alike. There are over 100 items on show including drawn backgrounds and cut-outs, models, posters, animation cels and even a Clangers set. It provides insights into the creative process of animation including scripts, storyboards, preparatory drawings, animators’ notes and ‘animatics’ [early versions] as well as clips from the various films.
More here: http://www.cartoonmuseum.org/
Anyone who saw the two Canterbury Clangers/Postgate restrospectives will be familiar with the Smallfilms stuff - Clangers set, the Bagpuss, (but did you know Prof Yaffle was part inspired by G.D.H. Cole and part by Bertrand Russell?), backgrounds for Ivor the Engine, Noggin the Nog, etc. Plus Roobarb and Custard, Wallace and Gromit, The Snowman, Famous Fred, Bob the Builder and something called Pepa Pig
Plus:
Making Things: An Evening with Peter Firmin
Wednesday 1st Septemeber 6.30-7.30, 020 75808155 Adults £5, Concessions £4.
He's getting on a bit, but he seemed hale and hearty when I sat next to him late last year.