Screening / Talk – Tony Pritchett eBook

Above: Tony Pritchett and 'The Chilton Atlas' (console). The 'Atlas Laboratory' was situated at Harwell A.E.R.E. (which is now home to The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory). Photo by Nigel Kellaway.

020 > RAL Lecture

Domestic Archeology / Rutherford Appleton / Screening / Talk

Professor David Duce, Dr Victoria Marshall and myself gave a lecture on how (we think!) Tony Pritchett made Britain's first piece of computer animation, The Flexipede. The talk was based…

Tony Pritchett (1937-2017), was a British computer animation pioneer and Whovian, who left us at his humanist funeral service to the sound of The Tardis dematerialising. I will miss him a lot.

010 > Doctor Who

Filmmaking / Random Walk / Screening / Talk

In 1967, it’s highly likely that Tony Pritchett would've been tuning into ‘The Faceless Ones’. During this time, he was also making a two-minute film called 'The Flexipede', which is…

007 > Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

Rutherford Appleton / Screening / Talk / Thank you

Tony Pritchett worked on animation projects at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory during the 1970s. He did some exciting stuff there and met like-minded spirits and fellow pioneers. I was invited to…