Pencil Box

The programme comprised stories written by Ottawa students, mostly aged 8 to 12, and incorporated various story-telling devices, such as mime, puppets, masks, and animation.

Colour-separation overlay was used to place live actors in front of cutout sets.

Children could submit ideas for stories that would be played out by the characters.

[1] However, the show would be canceled in 1979 as a result of children submitting stories based on already existing properties.

This article about a children's television show originating in Canada is a stub.