The Tony Pritchett archive contains some lovely stuff. For example, there are 176 film cans (mostly 16mm) which contain a mix of WiP/unused/finished animation sequences. They provide a wonderful insight into his process and early CG.
It would be REALLY WONDERFUL to get these scanned for two reasons:
> To make Tony’s work available to all.
> To be able to use it in my project documenting his work.
For some time now I’ve been trying to find a way to get the Tony Pritchett archive scanned. I’ve tried all things from failing to build my own scanner, to going down the local library and scanning stuff frame-by-frame.
I’m extremely grateful to The Computer Arts Society ‘CAS’ and friend/Software Generation colleague of Tony’s Alan Joy for contributing £500.00 each. This means I have £1000.00 to spend wisely on scanning. I am currently investigating the best places to do this.
Jez Stewart at the BFI has also kindly done a HD scan of a few Flexipede- related materials, which I will be posting on YouTube this week. However, there still remains a large amount of unscanned materials in the archive, (in a garage in a mystery location in Shoeburyness).
If you are able to contribute anything to the scanning of the archive, please do get in touch!
I can provide you with a detailed Xcel spreadsheet (I’ve viewed all materials on Steenbecks)
The figures bellow are based on a quote (including prep & clean) for a 2K scan by Cinelab. Thank you Cinelab!
GRAND TOTAL NEEDED: £7872. – £1000.00 (in kind) = £6872.00
BREAKDOWN:
> Misc Live action c. 1966 16mm B/W 13 mins £231.00
> Home Movies c. 1950-’67 16mm B/W 10 mins £178.00
> Night Ferry (Tony’s indie film) 1980 16mm Col 1hr 43mins £1833.40
> Buckminster Fuller visit (World Design Science Decade) 1967 16mm B/W 15 mins £267.00
> The Flexipede (making of) Picture 1967 16mm B/W £462.80
> The Flexipede (making of) 1967 Sound (16mm Optical) 5 mins £25.00
> Abstract/Misc 16mm c.1970-’75 B/W 20mins £365.00
> Abstract/Misc Sound c.1970-’75 (16mm Mag/Optical) 12 mins £60.00
> Early Work 16mm 1969-’70 B/W 20 mins £320.00
> Early Work Sound 1969-’70 (16mm Mag/Optical) 20 mins £25.00
> Early Work 35mm 1969-’70 B/W 1 min £17.80
> The Digital Computer Titles 1975 16mm BW 8mins £142.40
> Open University Picture 1970-’74 BW 16mm £1958.00
> Open University Sound 1970-’74 (16mm Mag) 9 min £45.00
> Weather Maps 1973 16mm Col 13 mins £231.40
> Sea Currents 1973-’75 3D Anaglyph Col 16mm 33 mins £587.40
> Sea Currents Sound 1973-’75 10 mins £50.00
> Software Generation c. 1978-’82 16mm Col 16 mins £284.80
> Software Generation c. 1978-‘8235mm Col 9 mins £160.20
> Software Generation Sound c. 1978-’82 16mm Optical/Mag 2 mins £10.00
> Antics Animation System c. 1974 16mm Col £445.00
> Antics Animation System c. 1979 Sound 16mm Mag 6 mins £30.00
> Alien 3 mins c. 1977 – ’78 BW 16mm £53.40
> Alien 1977 – ‘7 35mm col 5mins £89.00
PLEASE DO GET IN TOUCH IF YOU ARE ABLE TO HELP WITH THE SCANNING OF THE ARCHIVE!!
BUILDING A FILM SCANNER IS A LOT TRICKIER THAN I’D HOPED!
Very best wishes! Kate Sullivan
