The Lost Engine
- Studio
- Smallfilms
Synopsis
Engines don't always do what you would expect them to do, but luckily they are very rarely stolen by gangsters.
Characters
Ivor, Jones the Steam
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Peter Firmin
Producing
- Producer
- Peter Firmin, Oliver Postgate
Writing
- Writer
- Oliver Postgate
Animation
- Animator
- Peter Firmin
Voices
Music
- Music
- Vernon Elliott
Crew
- Photography
- Peter Firmin
- Artwork Created By
- Peter Firmin
Production notes
The first six episodes were made in Black & White. The first six met with great success, so they were followed up with two more sets of thirteen episodes each in the early sixites.
In 1975, Smallfilms got the rights to the characters back, and produced 40 new episodes in color. Many were remakes of the black & white versions, but some had new story lines.
The films were made in cut-out card animation which is a laborious procedure in which figures cut from painted cardboard are jointed together with Blutack, laid on a background and moved, in increments of 1/25ths of a second, under a single-frame camera driven by a motor, some pieces of meccano and a rubber drive band.
In 1975, Smallfilms got the rights to the characters back, and produced 40 new episodes in color. Many were remakes of the black & white versions, but some had new story lines.
The films were made in cut-out card animation which is a laborious procedure in which figures cut from painted cardboard are jointed together with Blutack, laid on a background and moved, in increments of 1/25ths of a second, under a single-frame camera driven by a motor, some pieces of meccano and a rubber drive band.