September 2021 – Tony Pritchett eBook

Huge thanks to Jez Stewart at The BFI for scanning some Random Walk footage. There will be more images from more scans including an entire project folder-full of materials in the eBook.

028 > Random Walk

Domestic Archeology / Random Walk / Rutherford Appleton

I’m immensely proud of this paper.Thank you Prof. David Duce and Prof. Bob Hopgood. Thank you also to Dr. Victoria Marshall, for engineering the collaboration. I seem to have put…

The Flexipede aka ’Computer Caterpillar’, was the beginnings of Tony’s research into computer animation, and in this sense, GRAM could be seen as an extension of Flexipede. Perhaps this is why Tony chose to draw butterflies? We will never know. Another archive mystery.

027 > GRAM

Domestic Archeology / Rutherford Appleton

Whilst creating graphics for the newly opened Open University, Tony began work on creating his own program (aka ‘language’) to create animated graphics.He called it ‘GRAM’, because it was a…