Summary Auntie Mabel is drawing a picture of Pippin but she needs a new pencil. They go to a stationery shop to buy one. Auntie Mabel wants to see where pencils come from. She and Pippin fly in Spotty Plane to Seathwaite Fell where graphite was discovered five hundred years ago and Auntie Mabel tells a story about a sheep farmer who used graphite to mark his sheep. They visit a graphite mine where they see how the graphite was chipped away from the rocks. Then they visit a factory where pencils are made from graphite and clay. Pippin is given a piece of graphite and Auntie Mabel buys a set of colored pencils. Now she can complete Pippin's portrait in color - once Pippin has stopped making marks on it with her graphite.
Directed : Unknown
Written : Unknown
Stars : Lynda Baron Pippin Valerie Hunkins Ashok Srivastava
Genres : Adventure Family
Release date : Jan 20, 1997
Countries of origin : United Kingdom
Language : English
Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Summary Auntie Mabel is drawing a picture of Pippin but she needs a new pencil. They go to a stationery shop to buy one. Auntie Mabel wants to see where pencils come from. She and Pippin fly in Spotty Plane to Seathwaite Fell where graphite was discovered five hundred years ago and Auntie Mabel tells a story about a sheep farmer who used graphite to mark his sheep. They visit a graphite mine where they see how the graphite was chipped away from the rocks. Then they visit a factory where pencils are made from graphite and clay. Pippin is given a piece of graphite and Auntie Mabel buys a set of colored pencils. Now she can complete Pippin's portrait in color - once Pippin has stopped making marks on it with her graphite.
Genres : Adventure Family
Release date : Jan 20, 1997
Countries of origin : United Kingdom
Language : English
Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
