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New Ivor on BBC2W

 


BBC2 Wales have comissioned a number of short promotional adverts featuring Ivor the Engine for their digital service. These adverts have all been written and voiced by Oliver Postgate, using Peter Firmin's artwork.

The original card characters and backgrounds, along with some new pictures commissioned for the adverts were scanned in and then animated on computer using the same stop-frame techniques as originally used by Smallfilms.

The adverts will be mainly running on BBC One Wales, which is available across Wales to analogue viewers (old-fashioned UHF), plus on Freeview channel 1, Cable 101 and Digital Satellite 101. Across the rest of the UK, BBC One Wales is on Digital Satellite 942.

They've also been showing the original colour episodes of Ivor the Engine.

Here are some photos - if I can get hold of the videos, I'll post them here as well

 
  BBC2W Advert Still - Copyright BBC 2004

A still from one of the adverts - Copyright BBC 2004

 

  
  David Buckland, bassoonist from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales - Copyright BBC 2004

David Buckland, a bassoonist from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, who provided the voice for Ivor in the new adverts - Copyright BBC 2004

 

  
  Ed Talfan, one of the Animators - Copyright BBC 2004

Ed Talfan, one of the animators of the new adverts, along with a couple of stills from the animation and a couple of the original card characters which were scanned in before being animated on the computer - Copyright BBC 2004.

  
     

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