A Conversation for 'Ivor the Engine' - the TV Series
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Ek* this space intentionally left blank *ki Started conversation Jun 25, 2003
Surely it should be included in any reference to Ivor ... an entry about Ivor the Engine without a phoenetic Pshh-t-k just isn't cricket (i know it's alluded to but it's not the same) ...
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Demon Drawer Posted Jun 25, 2003
Ekki there was great debate about how to spell it in peer review. It does get a mention and the Smallfilms link does have a sound excert of the voive of Ivor.
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Joe Otten Posted Jun 25, 2003
Does anybody know why it was Pshh-t-k rather than the more usual chuff chuff?
Would it be fair to say that pshh-t-k is closer to the sound of a compound expansion steam engine, and this was the sound that the program makers were trying to emulate?
Is Ivor in fact a compound engine? It seems most unlikely.
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YukonWolf Posted Jun 26, 2003
The Encyclopedia of Cult Children's TV (Richard Lewis, 2001) mentions that the spelling (according to Oliver Postgate) is pss-t-koff. It says something for the programme that a generation of kids can do that sound effect for years afterwards. Even if it does give them a slightly odd impression of the Welsh. I'm from the Eastern Valley orginally. Maybe it's just that we're all getting older but it does seem to be of a different time.
Would it be popular as a new show today?
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Mol - on the new tablet Posted Oct 31, 2003
In the Ivor the Engine books we have, the sound is represented as "chuff chuff". It's just not quite the same, somehow.
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