Kate Sullivan – Tony Pritchett eBook

Looking at Tony's 35mm C4 logo print. Photo ( a frame of video), by Ewan Mulligan.

043 > Channel Four Logo: Part Two

Domestic Archeology

Jez Stewart is responsible for the BFI National Archive's animation collection. He's been a big and valuable supporter of The Tony Pritchett Project. Thank you Jez!Recently he very kindly digitised…

1 of 18 Umatics in the Tony Pritchett Archive. Umatics are not easy to view these days. This one remained a mystery until Jez an the BFI kindly scanned it. It contained what we hoped it would! Thank you BFI and Jez Stewart!

042 > Channel Four Logo: Part One

Domestic Archeology

>>> This is an extra special blog post - featuring special guest BFI National Archive's animation curator, Jez Stewart!Jez writes:First impressions matter, and as the new British broadcaster Channel 4…

"The involvement of the Royal College of Art, which at first sight seems a strange place for the development of a new branch of computer technology, came about because of Bickmore's insistence that the new-style map-making should not be hampered by the graphic conventions that had grown out of the methods of cartographic draughtsmen." 'Computers and the Renaissance of Cartography', by T A Margerison Experimental Cartographic Unit, Royal College of Art. December 1976

041 > Experimental Cartography – in 3D!

Domestic Archeology

Tony Pritchett's archive contains 16mm film, correspondence and other production materials relating to his work with The Experimental Cartography Unit.Between 1973 and 1976 Tony created 3D anaglyphic moving image of…

The Flexipede print VS Stable Diffusion/Google Colab

040 > Ai

Filmmaking

In 1967 Tony Pritchett created The Flexipede using:> One of the world's most powerful supercomputers The London University Atlas.> A microfilm recorder at a nuclear fusion research laboratory.> A reel-to-reel…