Pencil Box was a child

Child

Biologically, a child is generally a human between the stages of birth and puberty. Some vernacular definitions of a child include the fetus, as being an unborn child. The legal definition of "child" generally refers to a minor, otherwise known as a person younger than the age of majority...

ren's television programme broadcast

Broadcasting

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 by CBC Television

CBC Television

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 from 1976 to 1979. The programme comprised stories written by Ottawa

Ottawa

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 students, mostly aged 8 to 12, and incorporated various story-telling devices, such as mime

Mime artist

A mime artist is someone who uses mime as a theatrical medium or as a performance art, involving miming, or the acting out a story through body motions, without use of speech. In earlier times, in English, such a performer was referred to as a mummer...

, puppet

Puppet

A puppet is an inanimate object or representational figure animated or manipulated by an entertainer, who is called a puppeteer. It is used in puppetry, a play or a presentation that is a very ancient form of theatre....

s, mask

Mask

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s, and animation

Animation

Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...

. Colour-separation overlay was used to place live actor

Actor

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s in front of cutout sets.

Recurring characters in the show were

• Bolo Bat
• Stubby Pencil
• Miffy Skunk
• Clara Cactus

The show won an ACTRA

ACTRA

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 Award for Best Children's Television Show.

External links

• Pencil Box at the Internet Movie Database
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