Season 2 • Episode 20
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Ivor the Engine is a British children's animation by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin's Smallfilms company. It is a children's television series relating the adventures of a small green locomotive who lived in the "top left-hand corner of Wales" and worked for The Merioneth and Llantisilly Railway Traction Company Limited. His friends included Jones the Steam, Evans the Song and Dai Station, among many other characters.
Practical Effects
Hand-painted cardboard cutouts = peak aesthetic.
Sound
Postgate's narration: ASMR before ASMR existed.
Writing
Deadpan absurdity about railway bureaucracy.
Creator
Oliver Postgate
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Smallfilms operated from a barn in Kent; Postgate and Firmin made 13,000+ hours of TV with literally four people. The Merioneth and Llantisilly Railway Traction Company Limited is longer than most actual Welsh place names, which is saying something.
The series was almost cancelled when BBC executives couldn't understand the Welsh accents. Postgate refused to change them. Absolute king behavior.
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