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Lift Off (Australian TV series)
Lift Off is an Australian children's television series that was developed and produced by Patricia Edgar and broadcast on ABC Television from 1992 until the series ended in 1995.
Each episode of the series featured a live-action storyline about a group of young children, and the problems they encountered with growing up, their parents, and various other social issues.
Episodes also featured segments of short animation, puppetry and documentary segments, as well as various songs, stories and word games. Aimed at 3 to 11-year-olds, the series was linked with the school curricula through the Curriculum Corporation of Australia. The different episodes used stories and locations to explore subjects such as jealousy, loneliness and anger. The puppet characters were designed by illustrator Terry Denton and were constructed by the sculptor Ron Mueck.
The central focus on the program is the child actors whom are aged between 4 and 10 years. Coming from different cultural, social, and familial backgrounds, the small group of seven children approach their environment with a sense of adventure, fantasy and inquiry. These children feature in the drama elements of the program but are the departure point for all other elements of the program.
Lift Off's heart is its characters: children, adults, puppets, performers-live and animated. Central to Lift Off is the activity of a core group of children. Their play, interactions and inquires from the idea or theme around which each episode revolves. The parents of the main characters are seen in every episode and their interactions reflect a variety of family situations.
A major fantasy characters in Lift Off is “EC”, a sentient rag doll puppet with a distinctive amorphous head barely suggestive of facial features, which serves as a confidante and a friend for the child characters.
Another of the main characters in the program is a lift called Lotis. Based in the apartment building where two of the families live, Lotis is, to the adult observer, a normal, everyday lift. It takes people to the desired floor, greets them vocally and frustrates them occasionally with its unreliability. To the children, however, Lotis is a friend, a mentor and a fellow explorer of their world. Lotis is an artificial intelligence. She has a computer matrix screen on her back wall on which appear clues, questions, diagrams and games. She is able to take them anywhere in space or time and will sometimes open her doors on the surface of the Moon, the beach or the bottom of the ocean.
There are other puppets in Lift Off. Rocky, the frill-necked lizard is an anthropologist and documentary cameraman who is seen fleetingly on location gathering material about the human characters in the program. His humorous documentary films are shown to an audience of frill-necked lizards towards the end of each episode and reflect on the folly of the "two-footers".
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Lift Off (Australian TV series)
Lift Off is an Australian children's television series that was developed and produced by Patricia Edgar and broadcast on ABC Television from 1992 until the series ended in 1995.
Each episode of the series featured a live-action storyline about a group of young children, and the problems they encountered with growing up, their parents, and various other social issues.
Episodes also featured segments of short animation, puppetry and documentary segments, as well as various songs, stories and word games. Aimed at 3 to 11-year-olds, the series was linked with the school curricula through the Curriculum Corporation of Australia. The different episodes used stories and locations to explore subjects such as jealousy, loneliness and anger. The puppet characters were designed by illustrator Terry Denton and were constructed by the sculptor Ron Mueck.
The central focus on the program is the child actors whom are aged between 4 and 10 years. Coming from different cultural, social, and familial backgrounds, the small group of seven children approach their environment with a sense of adventure, fantasy and inquiry. These children feature in the drama elements of the program but are the departure point for all other elements of the program.
Lift Off's heart is its characters: children, adults, puppets, performers-live and animated. Central to Lift Off is the activity of a core group of children. Their play, interactions and inquires from the idea or theme around which each episode revolves. The parents of the main characters are seen in every episode and their interactions reflect a variety of family situations.
A major fantasy characters in Lift Off is “EC”, a sentient rag doll puppet with a distinctive amorphous head barely suggestive of facial features, which serves as a confidante and a friend for the child characters.
Another of the main characters in the program is a lift called Lotis. Based in the apartment building where two of the families live, Lotis is, to the adult observer, a normal, everyday lift. It takes people to the desired floor, greets them vocally and frustrates them occasionally with its unreliability. To the children, however, Lotis is a friend, a mentor and a fellow explorer of their world. Lotis is an artificial intelligence. She has a computer matrix screen on her back wall on which appear clues, questions, diagrams and games. She is able to take them anywhere in space or time and will sometimes open her doors on the surface of the Moon, the beach or the bottom of the ocean.
There are other puppets in Lift Off. Rocky, the frill-necked lizard is an anthropologist and documentary cameraman who is seen fleetingly on location gathering material about the human characters in the program. His humorous documentary films are shown to an audience of frill-necked lizards towards the end of each episode and reflect on the folly of the "two-footers".