February 2020 – Tony Pritchett eBook

The Chilton Atlas console. Thanks to Dr. Victoria Marshall, this once cutting-edge supercomputer technology no longer lies abandoned in a warehouse.

014 > Dr. Victoria Marshall

Domestic Archeology / Rutherford Appleton / Thank you

When she's not poking around in dusty warehouses, Dr. Marshall manages the diagnostic computers which run the Astra Gemini laser at Rutherford Laboratory, developing software to control, analyse and monitor…

The Flexipede: Master Neg. (Photo taken 2014 by Ewan Mulligan)

013 > i-Dailies

Digitisation Progress / Domestic Archeology / Thank you

In 1967 getting The Flexipede out of The London University Atlas and onto 16mm wasn’t easy. TP had to drive up to a nuclear fusion research lab in Oxfordshire and…

The original Ch4 logo, designed by the brilliant Martin Lambie-Nairn and animated by TP.

012 > Channel 4 Launch

Domestic Archeology

On 2nd November 1982 Channel 4 launched with it’s iconic fanfare and logo. But a few weeks before the launch all was not well... TP had animated a wireframe model…

As seen in Alien (1979) & Blade Runner (1982). Created using GRAM code.

011 > In space No One Can Hear You Rain

Domestic Archeology / Random Walk / Rutherford Appleton

Thanks to Bea Haut and Dr. Dean Todd and the Arts & Digital Industries Department at UEL I’ve been able to continue to research TP’s work.The Tony Pritchett Archive contains…