The Art of Smallfilms
The Work of Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin. Edited by Jonny Trunk & Richard Embray. Introduction by Stewart Lee.
Working from a farmyard in Kent, Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin produced some of the best-loved childrens’ television of the 1960s and 1970s, including Bagpuss, The Clangers, Ivor The Engine and Noggin The Nog. This book presents the Smallfilms archive — the puppets and cut-outs from these series, along with insights into how they were made. It’s a book full of pipe cleaners, cotton wool, wire and ping-pong balls, and celebrates the imagination and ingenuity of two brilliant artists who shaped the childhoods of a generation.
“Jonny Trunk has taken the astonishingly thorough archive of Smallfilms… and presented it as one would a collection of artefacts in an exhibition detailing some much-admired 20th century art movement, like Fluxus or Dada. The Smallfilms sacred relics repay his trust in them, and our repeated viewings.”
Stewart Lee, from his introduction
The Art of Smallfilms
The Work of Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin. Edited by Jonny Trunk & Richard Embray. Introduction by Stewart Lee.
Hardback, 304 pages, 26 × 28 cm
Designed by John Morgan
Published 2014
ISBN 978–1–909829–02–2
£25
