BAGPUSS AWAKENS

BRUM FILM-MAKERS TO BRING TV'S 'SAGGY OLD CLOTH CAT' TO BIG SCREEN

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BAGPUSS, the classic children's TV character, will make a big screen comeback in a new live-action and animated feature film thanks to a Birmingham production company.

The pink and white cloth cat, who lived in a shop that was a home for lost property, turned 50 last year.

Only 13 episodes of the show were made but it is considered to be a classic, and was voted the all-time favourite children’s programme in 1999.

The stop motion animation was made by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate and was filmed in Firmin’s barn in Blean, Kent, starring his daughter Emily.

Bagpuss would come to life after Emily left the animals alone, as the programme turned from sepia to colour.