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unusual facts about Oliver Postgate



Blean

The programmes were filmed in a barn on the Blean farm owned by co-founder Peter Firmin (the other founder being Oliver Postgate).


see also

Clanger

Clangers, a television series by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin

Ivor the Engine

Having produced the live Alexander the Mouse, and the filmed The Adventures of Ho for his employers Associated Rediffusion/ITV in partnership with Firmin, Oliver Postgate and his partner set up Smallfilms in a disused cow shed at Firmin's home in Blean near Canterbury, Kent.

Summerton Mill

Although the series is made very much in the style of Oliver Postgate's Smallfilms, much of the background humour is in a similar vein to that of Aardman Animation's Creature Comforts.