"Swastikas for Noddy Swastikas for Noddy is a 1988 album by English music group Current 93. It charted on ""New Musical Express""s Independent LPs chart in March 1988. It was originally issued simultaneously on CD (with poor sound quality) and LP by Crepuscule Records' industrial subsidiary L.A.Y.L.A.H. Records and later reissued as a remastered CD by Durtro Records in 1994 (with significantly improved sound) under the slightly revised title ""Swastikas For Goddy"", the renaming being due to copyright infringement issues involving Enid Blyton's character Noddy. The album title ""Swastikas for Noddy"" originates from when David Tibet tried to think up"
"The idea was conceived by one of Blyton's publishers, Sampson, Low, Marston and Company, who in 1949 arranged a meeting between Blyton and the Dutch illustrator Harmsen van der Beek. Despite having to communicate via an interpreter, he provided some initial sketches of how Toyland and its characters would be represented. Four days after the meeting Blyton sent the text of the first two Noddy books to her publisher, to be forwarded to van der Beek. The Noddy books became one of her most successful and best-known series, and were hugely popular in the 1950s. An extensive range of sub-series,"
"to Toyland"". Due to the nimble writing pace of Enid Blyton, Beek employed an assistant, Wienk, in 1950. Initially for colouring the drawings made by Beek, later Wienk drew the Noddy characters himself as well. Beek died in 1953, after which Wienk, Marten Toonder and a few other illustrators had rivaled to obtain the continuing contract for the Noddy books. Although Toonder was a famous and established Dutch illustrator, Enid Blyton found Wienk's drawings better suited to her wishes for the Noddy character. Between 1953 and 1970 Wienk has illustrated a large number of Noddy books, as well as Noddy"
"Noddy's Toyland Adventures Noddy's Toyland Adventures is a children's television programme that was broadcast from September 1992 until January 1993 and December 1994, and again in 2000 on the BBC. It was produced by Cosgrove Hall Films in stop-motion animation. The show featured the memorable voice acting talents of voice actors and television writers Jimmy Hibbert and the late Susan Sheridan (both of whom also worked on the version of ""The Little Polar Bear"" for the United Kingdom, as well as the later 'also Cosgrove Hall produced' television series ""Animal Shelf""), with every episode being written by Julia and Chris"
"end of the 1940s. The result was the creation of the Noddy series for young children, authored by Enid Blyton - still a major property for animators half a century later. Van der Beek simply signed his work as ""Beek"". The conscious intention to create a Disney-style sympathetic focus character — a European Mickey Mouse — was reportedly a major factor. Beek's death in 1953 led to a few new illustrators for the Noddy books, amongst which was his assistant Peter Wienk. Beek's father was a pharmacist in Amsterdam. As a child, he and his brother Hein sold postcards which"
"the children dressed as fairies, flying on wires. It ran for several years, but the Stoll was knocked down and replaced by an office block in the late 1950s. The Peacock Theatre was built in the basement of the new building, but Noddy did not return. In 1993, a stage production of Noddy opened at Wimbledon Theatre, followed by a long UK national tour, including a Christmas season in London at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, and was released on home video in 1994. The production was presented by Clarion Productions. The production was written and directed by David Wood with"
"no official DVD release of the series yet. Noddy's Toyland Adventures Noddy's Toyland Adventures is a children's television programme that was broadcast from September 1992 until January 1993 and December 1994, and again in 2000 on the BBC. It was produced by Cosgrove Hall Films in stop-motion animation. The show featured the memorable voice acting talents of voice actors and television writers Jimmy Hibbert and the late Susan Sheridan (both of whom also worked on the version of ""The Little Polar Bear"" for the United Kingdom, as well as the later 'also Cosgrove Hall produced' television series ""Animal Shelf""), with"
"just ""Beek"". He was already well known in the Netherlands when he approached London publishers Sampson Low at the end of the 1940s. The result was the creation of the ""Noddy"" series for young children, still a major property for animators half a century later. The conscious intention to create a Disney-style sympathetic focus character — a European Mickey Mouse — was reportedly a major factor. Beek's death in 1953 was no obstacle to the further progress of the several series of Noddy books. Peter Wienk worked alongside Beek on the Noddy books and from 1953-1970 Wienk did many illustrations"
"events in their local community. Blyton rewrote the stories so they could be adapted into cartoons, which appeared in ""Mickey Mouse Weekly"" in 1951 with illustrations by George Brook. The French author Evelyne Lallemand continued the series in the 1970s, producing an additional twelve books, nine of which were translated into English by Anthea Bell between 1983 and 1987. Blyton's Noddy, about a little wooden boy from Toyland, first appeared in the ""Sunday Graphic"" on 5 June 1949, and in November that year ""Noddy Goes to Toyland"", the first of at least two dozen books in the series, was published."
"various advertising agencies and drawing studios including the Toonder Studios of Marten Toonder a famous Dutch illustrator. In 1947, he joined Reclamebureau Van Alfen (Advertising), where amongst others the Flipje character (funny fruit character of a well-known Dutch preserve manufacturer) was made by Eelco ten Harmsen van der Beek ('Harmsen van der Beek'). Beek had his own art studio and accepted an assignment in 1949 to illustrate a new story of children's author Enid Blyton: Noddy. This first appeared as a strip in an English newspaper, but proved so successful that soon after the first book was published: ""Noddy Goes"
"the company. He died six days later. Beek and Langeler had a son and a daughter, (1927–2009), who was a writer, poet and herself an illustrator. Harmsen van der Beek Eelco Martinus ten Harmsen van der Beek (more commonly Harmsen van der Beek or just Beek; October 8, 1897 in Amsterdam – July 24, 1953 in Blaricum) was a Dutch illustrator and commercial artist. Abroad, he is best remembered for his illustration of Enid Blyton's Noddy books. Van der Beek was the creator of the ""Flipje"" character in 1935. This was a comic strip featuring a character made of berries"
"speakers saying the new foreign words Noddy was to learn. The interstitials were featured on commercial breaks on Five and featured as segments for the American release of the show on PBS. A CG animated series, called ""Noddy In Toyland"", was made in 2009 by Chorion, produced by Brown Bag Films in Ireland. The series features much more detailed faces for Big Ears and Mr. Plod, a new wardrobe for Tessie Bear, and incorporates Whizz as a full-time character. Sly and Gobbo's cousins, Sneaky and Stealth, are introduced and usually work alongside them. The full series is available digitally on"
"Harmsen van der Beek Eelco Martinus ten Harmsen van der Beek (more commonly Harmsen van der Beek or just Beek; October 8, 1897 in Amsterdam – July 24, 1953 in Blaricum) was a Dutch illustrator and commercial artist. Abroad, he is best remembered for his illustration of Enid Blyton's Noddy books. Van der Beek was the creator of the ""Flipje"" character in 1935. This was a comic strip featuring a character made of berries which was commissioned by a jam factory in Tiel. He was already well known in the Netherlands when he approached London publishers Sampson Low at the"
"of toys. For example, Mr. Golly who ran the Toyland garage was replaced by Mr. Sparks who in the new 2004 version of the series appears to be Scottish, and Dinah Doll, described as ""a black, assertive minority female"", was added to the franchise by the BBC during the 1992–1999 series. Noddy first appeared on stage at the 2660-seat Stoll Theatre in Kingsway, London, in 1954. The very large cast were all children or teenagers, mostly from the Italia Conti acting school. There was a full theatre orchestra. The finale was a scene at the ""Faraway Tree"", with many of"
"Enid Blyton Enid Mary Blyton (11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968) was an English children's writer whose books have been among the world's best-sellers since the 1930s, selling more than 600 million copies. Blyton's books are still enormously popular, and have been translated into 90 languages; her first book, ""Child Whispers"", a 24-page collection of poems, was published in 1922. She wrote on a wide range of topics including education, natural history, fantasy, mystery, and biblical narratives and is best remembered today for her Noddy, Famous Five, Secret Seven and Malory Towers series. Following the commercial success of her"
"iTunes. In 2012, Chorion sold the Noddy character to ClassicMedia, which in turn was bought out by DreamWorks Animation, leading to another CG animated series, named ""Noddy, Toyland Detective"" was produced by French producer/distributor Gaumont Animation, in association with DreamWorks Animation Television, and in partnership with France Télévisions. It premiered on Channel Five's preschool block Milkshake! on April 18, 2016. There was a spoof page of ""Noddy-ana"" in ""Hot Rod"" magazine (U.K.), in about 1976–78; Noddy had a hot rod, and Big Ears smoked, and was very disrespectful to Mr. Plod. In the book ""Seven Deadly Wonders"" by Matthew Reilly,"
"programme ""Roobarb"" (1974). Originally shown on BBC1 just before the evening news, each five-minute cartoon was written by Grange Calveley and produced by Bob Godfrey. He was the original voice actor for ""Noddy"" (1975) TV series based on the Enid Blyton character, and then another series with Godfrey, ""Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk"" (1976). He also provided the voice of Fiver in the animated film adaptation of ""Watership Down"" (1978). In 1990 Briers provided the narration and voiced all the characters in the five minute animated series ""Coconuts"" about a monkey, a king lion and a parrot who lived on"
"clay animations, produced by Premavision Studios. Art Clokey Arthur ""Art"" Clokey (born Arthur Charles Farrington; October 12, 1921 – January 8, 2010) was an American pioneer in the popularization of stop motion clay animation, best known as the creator of the character Gumby and the original voice of Gumby's sidekick, Pokey. Clokey's career began in 1955 with a film experiment called ""Gumbasia"", which was influenced by his professor, Slavko Vorkapich, at the University of Southern California. Clokey and his wife Ruth subsequently came up with the clay character Gumby and his horse Pokey, who first appeared in the ""Howdy Doody"
"the company also offered a line of Enid Blyton's 'Noddy' character figurines and vehicles. This included metal characters with wagons and bicycles of the wooden boy Noddy and his brownie friend, Big Ears. Early packaging for stagecoaches, etc. would be marked ""Morestone"" and ""Modern Products"". Boxes were two parts; lid and bottom with staples closing the lid on each end. The lid was covered with a printed, rather monocolor, paper label. Later, yellow and red boxes with white trim seem to have been ""Modern"" Products offerings only without any reference to Morestone or Budgie (which name was introduced in 1959)."
"Winky, Blinky, and Noddy Winky, Blinky, and Noddy are a trio of fictional comic book characters, created by writer Gardner Fox and artist E.E. Hibbard, who first appeared in books starring the Flash. Their names were taken from Wynken, Blynken, and Nod. Winky Moylan, Blinky Boylan, and Noddy Toylan were designed to be comic relief for the Flash, and were patterned after The Three Stooges. The comic books frequently referred to them as the ""Three Idiots"", the ""Three Numbskulls"", the ""Three Dopes"", or, most often, the ""Three Dimwits"". They first appeared in ""All-Flash"" #5 (1942), as incompetent small-time criminals working"
"in general. In ""Noddy's Toyland Adventures"", he was voiced by Jimmy Hibbert in the United Kingdom and Benedict Campbell in the United States, in ""Make Way for Noddy"", he was voiced by Richard Newman, and in ""Noddy in Toyland"", he is voiced by Keith Wickham Mr. Plod Mr. Plod is a fictional character in the Noddy children's series by Enid Blyton. He is a forthright police officer who never lets Toyland's crooks (especially Sly and Gobbo, the two goblins) escape from the ""long arm of the law"". He always pretends to know the problem, but can never quite figure it"
"world rights in the Blyton estate in March 2013, including The Famous Five series but excluding the rights to Noddy, which had been sold to DreamWorks Classics (formerly Classic Media, now a subsidiary of DreamWorks Animation) in 2012. Blyton's granddaughter, Sophie Smallwood, wrote a new Noddy book to celebrate the character's 60th birthday, 46 years after the last book was published; ""Noddy and the Farmyard Muddle"" (2009) was illustrated by Robert Tyndall. In February 2011, the manuscript of a previously unknown Blyton novel, ""Mr Tumpy's Caravan"", was discovered by the archivist at Seven Stories, National Centre for Children's Books in"
"a computer-animated series, which was eventually named ""Make Way for Noddy"". This was created by Chorion, on Five, and the episodes were filmed from 2001 to 2004 externally. It originally aired in 12-minute segments as part of the ""Milkshake!"" programme on Britain's Channel 5. In the autumn of 2004, a set of 100 new two-minute TV interstitials were created by Chorion. These interstitials, entitled ""Say it With Noddy"", feature Noddy learning words in a variety of foreign languages. They also introduced Noddy's new friend Whizz from Robot Village, who presses a button on his chest to play recordings of native"
"Michael Payne (cartoonist) Michael Payne (born 13 April 1944) known by his professional name """"Mike Payne"" is a British cartoonist, artist, illustrator, writer and actor best known for creating ""Tatty Teddy"" for the ""Me to You"" concept for Carte Blanche Greetings which he drew for seventeen years. He created ""Teddy Bigfoot"" and ""The Miranda Gang"" for the same company under his pen name of ""Miranda"". He is also the creator and writer of the Charlie's Ark children’s stories, Norm Bear (with Richard Digance) and was the cartoonist for Sky News. Mike Payne was born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England on 13"
"passed to Mendelsohn, then later to daughter Marion. By the early twenty-first century, most of McCay's surviving artwork remained in family hands. Little Nemo Little Nemo is a fictional character created by American cartoonist Winsor McCay. He originated in an early comic strip by McCay, ""Dream of the Rarebit Fiend"", before receiving his own spin-off series, ""Little Nemo in Slumberland"". The full-page weekly strip depicted Nemo having fantastic dreams that were interrupted by his awakening in the final panel. The strip is considered McCay's masterpiece for its experiments with the form of the comics page, its use of color, its"
"Award at the World Festival of Animated Film - Animafest Zagreb in 1992. Godfrey died on 21 February 2013 at the age of 91. Bob Godfrey Roland Frederick Godfrey MBE (27 May 1921 – 21 February 2013), known as Bob Godfrey, was an English animator whose career spanned more than fifty years. He is probably best known for the children's cartoon series ""Roobarb"" (1974–75), ""Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk"" (1976-77) and ""Henry's Cat"" (1983–95) and for the Trio chocolate biscuit advertisements shown in the UK during the early 1980s. However, he also produced a BAFTA and Academy award-winning short film"
"Susan Sheridan Susan Haydn Thomas (March 18, 1947 – August 8, 2015) was a British actress and voice actress. Her voice acting roles included Noddy in ""Noddy's Toyland Adventures"", Princess Sylvia in ""Muzzy in Gondoland"", Trillian in the BBC radio series ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"" and Princess Eilonwy in the animated film ""The Black Cauldron"". Sheridan was born in Newcastle and trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Sheridan married musician Max Brittain and had three daughters. She died on 8 August 2015, from breast cancer, aged 68. Sheridan voiced Alex in the video game ""Alex"
"Art Clokey Arthur ""Art"" Clokey (born Arthur Charles Farrington; October 12, 1921 – January 8, 2010) was an American pioneer in the popularization of stop motion clay animation, best known as the creator of the character Gumby and the original voice of Gumby's sidekick, Pokey. Clokey's career began in 1955 with a film experiment called ""Gumbasia"", which was influenced by his professor, Slavko Vorkapich, at the University of Southern California. Clokey and his wife Ruth subsequently came up with the clay character Gumby and his horse Pokey, who first appeared in the ""Howdy Doody Show"", and later got their own"
"Nobby Clegg character was played by Roger Daltrey, best known as the lead singer of The Who. From 1986 to 1992 they helped write 770 hours of produced material for ""The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson"", earning 4 Emmy nominations, and were the show's head writers from December 1989, until Carson's retirement on 22 May 1992. In 1997, the pair received a Genie nomination, Best Animated Series, for ""Ned's Newt"" (Nelvana). They also received a WGC nomination for the series in 1999. The title character was voiced by Harland Williams and was cited in several interviews as one of the"
"Bob Godfrey Roland Frederick Godfrey MBE (27 May 1921 – 21 February 2013), known as Bob Godfrey, was an English animator whose career spanned more than fifty years. He is probably best known for the children's cartoon series ""Roobarb"" (1974–75), ""Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk"" (1976-77) and ""Henry's Cat"" (1983–95) and for the Trio chocolate biscuit advertisements shown in the UK during the early 1980s. However, he also produced a BAFTA and Academy award-winning short film ""Great"" (1975), a tongue-in-cheek biography of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Further Academy Awards nominations received were for ""Kama Sutra Rides Again"" (1971), ""Dream Doll"" (1980),"
"for the Noddy books and Noddy Big books. There was yet another Dutch illustrator who worked on some of Blyton's other books, ""Willy Schermelé"". Eileen Soper (1905–1990) illustrated around 50 Blyton books, including the whole Famous Five series. In the 1970s her illustrations for the ""Famous Five"" books were replaced with more contemporary ones by Betty Maxey. Dorothy M. Wheeler (1891-1966) was the English artist who illustrated the original editions of five entire series: ""The Magic Faraway Tree"" series, the ""Josie Click and Bun"" series, the ""Mr Pink-Whistle"" series, the ""Mr Tumpy"" series (in strip book form) and the ""O'Clock"
"Bill Nolan (animator) William ""Bill"" Nolan (June 10, 1894 – December 6, 1954) was an American animated cartoon writer, animator, director, and artist. He is best known for creating and perfecting the rubber hose style of animation and for streamlining Felix the Cat. From 1925 to 1927, he worked on a loose animated adaptation of George Herriman's ""Krazy Kat"" for Margaret J. Winkler and from 1929 to 1934, worked as an animator, storyman, and director at the Walter Lantz Studio on the ""Oswald the Lucky Rabbit"" series. Nolan also worked at MGM on ""The Captain and the Kids"" series based"
"Velma Wayne Dawson Velma Wayne Dawson (May 30, 1912, Sydney, Australia – September 26, 2007) was an American puppet maker and puppeteer. She was best known for creating Howdy Doody marionettes for the ""Howdy Doody Show"". Dawson built only two classic Howdy Doody marionettes (Howdy and The Inspector John J. Fedoozle) for the famous children's show that began on December 27, 1947. She began by making all the prototypes with green felt hats, plaid shirts, white neckerchief and tan pants, made of cloth brown boots, brown hair and brown eyes. She continued to build the marionettes until the show went"