Ivor The Engine - The Complete Ivor The Engine

Starring: Ivor The Engine, Olwen Griffiths Dvd Release: 4th December, 2005 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Animated, PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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Ivor the Engine was the first animation by Oliver Postgate & Peter Firmin. It started off in black & white & was remade in colour. Ivor is a steam engine on a small railway in a corner of Wales. He turned out to be green & works for the Merioneth & Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited. Ivors driver was known as Jones the Steam, a man with a very strong Welsh accent. Many Welsh people often have the same surname, such as Jones, Morgan or Evans, so they use their profession to define their surname. In the first series Ivor gained three organ pipes in order to join the local choir, which was his ambition. Before that he just had a whistle, which wouldve been all right for a Chinese choir, but not a Welsh one. A lot of Ivors job consisted of obtaining coal from the pits-which was done by trains in those days.

Not only was this a favourite of my own childhood in the 60s & 70s, but the video edition has been a favourite for both of my own children.

Oliver Postgates ear for dialogue & his off-beat, self-deprecating humour make this a wonderfully engaging portrait of the top left-hand corner of Wales.

This is a very gentle, reassuring world, ideal for very small children but with enough in it to endear it to adults even after they know it off by heart. AND it runs for three whole hours -- not just great value for money, but suitable for plonking a wakeful toddler in front of it while you go back to sleep on the sofa!

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