Oliver Postgate might have had a basic style of animation and better remembered for Bagpuss.
I knew him for a range of his animation shows broadcast on the BBC since my childhood. Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine and the Clangers.
Together with collaborator Peter Firmin there was a charm to these shows that culminated with Bagpuss being voted as the best program ever in 1998.
It was all done in a back to basics way in a little shed. Oliver Postgate shot with a camera with attachments from a Meccano set and the like.
This documentary was more than just how Postgate and Firmin made the shows.
It looked at Postgate's socialist upbringing and family life. His grandfather was George Lansbury, his cousin is actress Angela Lansbury. As a child he mingled with HG Wells and Bertrand Russell.
Although not overt but that socialism, love of the country life and the environment bled through his work.
I liked how Bagpuss was described the kind of people you would meet in a pub. Somehow is was real life and family life distilled in cloth puppets and strange sounds.