Magic Adventures of Mumfie

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Britt Allcroft's Magic Adventures of Mumfie is an animated children's television series which was created by Britt Allcroft in 1994.

Based on the books by Katherine Tozer, Mumfie is a special little elephant who had no one to play with. Every morning he would run to his letter box hoping for an adventure - all tied up in a parcel.

One day, Mumfie realised that adventures do not come in parcels and sets off to the woods to find them. Mumfie meets his first friend, Scarecrow, ungainly and stuck in a field, and then his second Pinkey a flying pig and together the trio have all sorts of adventures.

The show was originally broadcast, using a puppetry format, during the 1970's on Independent Television (ITV) in the United Kingdom. It was then remade and broadcast on the Fox Family from until 1999. The show lastly appeared on the segments of a short TV series, Storytime with Thomas.

It is produced by Gullane Entertainment which was The Britt Allcroft Company. HIT Entertainment now owns the "Gullane" licenses for broadcast and merchandising, however they sold Mumfie back to Allcroft in 2008.

[edit] Credits

Storyteller: Patrick Breen
Music by: Larry Grossman

Lyrics by: John Kane
Music Arranged & Produced by: Steve Horelick
Producer of Animation: Michael B. Hefferon
Directed by: John Laurence Collins
Produced by: Britt Allcroft
Written by: Britt Allcroft & John Kane
Created by: Britt Allcroft
From the Works of: Katharine Tozer
Supervising Producer: Toni Stevens-Fleischmann
Original Production Designers: Bob Gauld-Galliers, Peter Moehrle, Chuck Gammage
Assistant Director: Robert Elliott
Post Production Supervisor: Christopher G. Harris
Production Manager: Ruth Lidwill
Production Coordinators: Marty Knox, James Backshall
Location and Prop Designers: Darren Goeree, Ed Lee, Gord Sinclair, Peter Wang
Character Designers: Ross Campbell, Todd Kauffman, Mike Smukavic, Cynthia Ward
Special Effects Designer: Raymond Pang
Clean-up: Rich Dannys, Dales DesRochers, Darren Goeree, Gord Sinclair, Frank Trzcinski
Storyboard Artists: Sam Agro, Chad Hicks, Ted Bastien, Peter Hudecki, Myron Born, Larry Jacobs, Mike Csunyoscka, Tim O'Halloran, Annelies Davis, Dave Pemberton, John Flagg, Andrew Tan, Stan Gadziola, Rob Walton
Layouts: Pictor Entertainment
Layout/Storyboard Coordinator: Jason Boyer
Layouts: Rich Dannys, Dave Merritt, Robert Elliott, Mike Nichols, Peggy Hawley, Jenni Selby, Ed Lee, John Stewart, John Lei, Peter Wang, Brad Markewitz, Ron Wilson, Wayne McKenzie, John Yee
Background Supervisor: Carl Sutcliffe
Background Design: Dave Chapman, Juliet Gauthier, Ryan A. Lewis, Robyn Moir, Jelena K. Sisic, Ange Zhang
Colour Design: Patricia Jones
Assistant Colour Design: Danielle Dal Ben, Adam Krause
Animation Production Studio: Phoenix Animation Studios Ltd
Overseas Supervisors: Lilliane Andrè, Robert Elliott
Overseas Studio: Animasia International Ltd. (Singapore)
Managing Director: S.C. Chen
Executive Director: Glen Kennedy
Digital Ink, Paint and Compositing: Colorland, Hong Kong
Exposure Sheet Timing Direction: Niall Johnston & Raven's Eye Productions Inc., Brent Deitrick, Ron Nobel, Brian Ray
Storyboard Timing: Shawn Seles
Lip Sync Supervisor: Ken Edwards
Voice Track Breakdown: Terry Carter, Mark Grozicki
Voice Director: Patrick Breen
Picture Editors: Mary Bajus, Stephanie Duncan, Simon Marcroft
Assistant Picture Editors: Chuck Kahn, Dana Alexander
Video Post Production: Magnetic North
Online Editors: Martin Jefferson, Brian Karn
Color Correction: Colin Moore
Flint Artist: Steve Grinnell
Sound Edit & Voice Recording: Access Post Production Audio Inc.
Sound Editors: Steven Cole, Steve Shelski, David Cole, Sue Robertson
Voice Recording Engineers: Steve Shelski, Peter Riley
Re-Recording Engineer: Andy Koyama
Dubbing Mixer: Mike Erander
Sound Mix: Deluxe Toronto
Mixer: Elius Caruso
Music Orchestrated by: Lawrence Wolf for Oasis Music Inc.
Songs Sung by: Peter Yawitz
Director's Assistant: Michael Pezzack
Assistant to the Producers: Marc DeGagne
Production Secretary: Tracey Nolan
Production Assistants: Simon McCord, Mark Campbell, Shawn Taylor
Production Accountants: Doug Allen, J.C. Caveen
Production Supervisor: Michael Flynn
Advisors: Dr. Malcolm Coe, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford (RTD), Ronald G. Slaby Ph.D, Department of Human Development and Psychology, Harvard University
Executive Producer: Angus Wright

Produced by: Britt Allcroft (Mumfie) Ltd for Phoenix Animation Studios.
© Britt Allcroft (Mumfie) Ltd 1994