Clangers Credits and production details

Camera Bolex standard with zoom lens. Slow external drive (Meccano) fitted to give ¾ second exposure. Similar ultra-slow zoom motor fitted (toy motor and piece of alarm clock). Remote bulb release. Lamps Overhead fluorescents plus shop window spots clipped onto old music stands. temp 3500K. Tripod Old Vinten screw-pan and tilt. Film 1..13 16mm Colour Ektachrome Reversal, 'AB' rolls 14..26 16mm Colour Ektachrome Negative Method Single-frame puppets (studio) Tracks Sepmag (Eng and ME) Original Conception Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin. Stories & Scripts Oliver Postgate. Two sets of 13 10 minute episodes. Scenery and Puppets Peter Firmin. Filming and Editing Oliver Postgate. Film Company Smallfilms (All rights held) Sound Clangers voices : played to English scripts on several swannee whistles by Oliver Postgate and Stephen Sylvester. Other voices and effects : garbled, sung or manufactured. Music Specially composed by Vernon Elliott, played by the Vernon Elliott ensemble.

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Last updated September 5th, 1997