Another Smallfilms production, Bagpuss, came top of a BBC poll to find the favourite British children's programme of the 20th century. ==Background== In 1957, Postgate was appointed a stage manager with Associated-Rediffusion, the company that then held the commercial weekday television franchise for London.
Smallfilms is a British television production company that made animated TV programmes for children from 1959 until the 1980s.
As Postgate voiced so many of the productions, including the WereBear story tapes, his distinctive voice became familiar to generations of children. They began in 1959 with Ivor the Engine, a series for ITV about a Welsh steam locomotive who wanted to sing in a choir, based on Postgate's wartime encounter with Welshman Denzyl Ellis, who was once a fireman on the Royal Scot.
To gain experience, he accepted a contract as a television director in the BBC Children's Department in 1960, on a show entitled Little Laura, another animated series made on film, written and drawn by V.
The series continued in production until 1962, with Postgate credited also as animator on the 1962 series.
It was remade in colour for the BBC in the 1970s.
Smallfilms is a British television production company that made animated TV programmes for children from 1959 until the 1980s.
While the storylines and production were remembered by children, the adult jokes, like those about the Welsh in Ivor the Engine, or the fact that the Clangers swore occasionally, gave the films an instant parental engagement, and a later nostalgic revival amongst former children re-watching their favourite programmes. ==Coolabi== From October 2008 until 2013, production company Coolabi held the merchandising and distribution rights to a number of the Smallfilms productions.
While the storylines and production were remembered by children, the adult jokes, like those about the Welsh in Ivor the Engine, or the fact that the Clangers swore occasionally, gave the films an instant parental engagement, and a later nostalgic revival amongst former children re-watching their favourite programmes. ==Coolabi== From October 2008 until 2013, production company Coolabi held the merchandising and distribution rights to a number of the Smallfilms productions.
In 2014 the company began operating again, producing a new series of its most famous show, The Clangers.
Any such agreement does not include the materials published through The Dragons Friendly Society. In 2014, Daniel collaborated with Firmin on the production of a new series of Clangers, with Daniel writing many of the episodes. ==Series development and philosophy== Postgate and Firmin recognised that their product was not sold to children, but to commissioning television executives.
Everything that happened was strictly logical, according to the laws of physics which happened to apply in that part of the world." In June 2015, the BBC's Mark Savage reported: "Firmin said the Clangers' surrealism had led to accusations that Postgate was taking hallucinogenic drugs".
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