Hi friends today I want to bring you a slice of my childhood. A children’s show that I loved watching, despite also making me so terrified I hid under the table throughout every episode.
Today I bring you… Pompel & Pilt
This is pretty much the only video in existence that has English subs but it’s still a great introduction. Now if you think this does indeed look kinda creepy, let me take you further down the janitorhole
This is what the dolls look like in full colour. Why they decided to make children’s show characters that look like horrifying monsters is beyond me, but it gets worse. Much worse
This is janitor Gorgon. He doesn’t even have eyes, just dark, empty pits. Most of the time he goes around just listing words that rhyme with “repairing”. Unfortunately… He also has a child
The Pompel & Pilt universe is full of psychedelic locations and creatures, like this giant rag that eats keys and throws up endless ropes with hundreds of keys on them
I hope you enjoyed this introduction to Pompel & Pilt, welcome to my life
The puppets and dream sequences in Dream Child (1985) were designed by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, bringing to life the dark, eccentric—and sometimes sinister—characters from Lewis Carroll’s imagination.
Animated puppet film, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1959) by Jirí Trnka. I’ve featured works by Trnka before (remember The Hand?), but not this one, which is probably his masterpiece.
The setting is Greek, not Elizabethan, like so many other adaptations, and it’s kind of sensual, warm, and the characters in it are graceful and believable. Animation Hall of Fame.
