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The Flumps
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The Flumps Intro
"The Silence of the
Flumps"
Made by a fan...
Secrets
The Cloud
The Magnet
Get Your Skates On
Moon Shot
Balloons
Keep Fit
Something Different
Lend A Hand
Quiet Please
Grandfather's Birthday
What A Carrot
Where's Grandfather?
Interview with Alan Rogers, part creator of Pigeon Street, Bod and the Flumps!! You submitted the questions.... here are his answers!
CATEGORY: THE FLUMPS
1) Dan from Knutsford: Question: What
were the flumps made of?
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.
2) Barry from England: Question: Is
the program flumps on English television, and if so, what channel
at what time, if not, could you possibly get in on English television,
as I'm very interested in this scary looking programme!
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.
3) Danielle C from W. Midlands: Question:
Hi. No questions, just wanted to say I LOVED the Flumps when I
was wee, and watched the episode where Pootle and the others are
bored approx 10 million times! Pootle finds the moon in his bucket
and the grandfather sings about his fishing trips... "He
fished for fish, and he fished for chips...?" I bought the
video on ebay and had a nice nostalgic day watching the same episode
again.....and again. Thanks!
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!
4) Stanley from Stanford: Question:
I’m a newcomer to the flumps; I’d like to learn more
about the flumps and the flump family!
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.
5) Paul T from Plymouth/U.K: Question:
Was there a record L.P released for the Flumps? I really enjoyed
the music!
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.
6) Mary T from Southampton: Question:
I work for a charity and we are in the process of raising our
profile, with that in mind and because we put together Christmas
parcels for seafarers which always include a woolly hat, I wonder
if you would mind if we created a 'woolly hat person'. I am contacting
you as I have just realised that there will be a similarity with
The Flumps. I would appreciate your opinion.
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.
7) from 80sCartoons: Question: Did you
have a favourite episode? Mine was the Magnet, I loved Pootle
in that one!
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.
Many thanks to Alan for his great answers, and his time and patience!
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