The Flumps had Papier Mache bodies coated
with fur, their facial features, hands and feet were made from Fymo,
and their arms and legs were steel armatures clad with chamois leather.
I don't think its transmitted by any TV station
anywhere right now. Though I can't imagine why you find it scary!
It's available on DVD if you'd like to give yourself a fright.
Hi Danielle, I'm from the West Midlands too....Dudley
in fact. Glad you enjoyed the series. You obviously never got bored
with Pootle being bored!
They were round furry creatures that lived
behind a wall on what looked like a derelict site. The wall was
a bigger scale than the Flumps and was clearly a human construction.
But although they inhabited a human world we never saw any humans.
The stories were simply about their self-sufficient family life,
and from their accents it would appear they were living somewhere
in Yorkshire. The family was Grandfather, Mother, Father, and three
children Posie, Perkin and the youngest Pootle. They all wore woolly
hats and little else......oh except Posie who wore a bow....oh and
Grandfather who had a flat cap.
The music was composed by Paul Reade and
the theme tune featured George Chisolm on trombone. There was an
album of the music realeased years ago on vinyl and tape. The sheet
music was even released in book form. I'm pretty sure that neither
of these are avilable now. The
DVD (still available) of course would have the music as part
of the programmes.
I'm sure that the Flumps have no monopoly
on woolly hats. The seafairers no doubt had them long before the
Flumps were thought of. As long as your woolly hat person wasn't
actually one of the Flumps, there'd be no problem. Good luck with
it. I'm sure they're much appreciated on those cold nights at sea.
I seem to remember that "Magnet"
was the first episode shot, so you were witnessing Pootle's debut
performance.
I don't know if I have a favourite episode, but the first airbrush
painting I ever did was used in the "Clouds" episode....or
was it called "Balloons"? Can't remember if that was one
episode or two! It could have been used in both! Whichever....after
that, airbrush became a very important technique for me since I
used it extensively later on in Pigeon Street and pretty much ever
since, (though I now use a less messy computer version). Also in
that episode I did some cut-out animation where I made the artwork
and manipulated it myself. Ever since then I've stuck to doing artwork
only and my long term animation partner Peter Lang has done all
the manipulation.
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