Random Walk – Tony Pritchett eBook

A book from TP’s archives. I’m not sure when or why he owned the book. Perhaps it was a nice break from speaking Fortran.

022 > Some Light Relief

Random Walk

FORTRAN stands for: Flipping Heck,This Is Difficult To Learn. Tony used Fortran V to program The Flexipede. Drawing and animating using Fortran is not an easy task, especially for someone…

“It became clear that with the computer techniques currently available, the tedious and time consuming film method has an overwhelming advantage in respect of cost.” Of course nowadays the opposite is true.

021 > Comedy & Science

Random Walk

When TP got his funding from The Institute of Computer Science in 1967, he could’ve made anything in order to explore the possibility of computer animation. He chose to make…

A frame of the beautiful animation in the BBC TV production of ‘The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy’ (1981). People often ask me if Tony animated the sequences. He didn’t and contrary to popular belief, they weren’t made using a computer. You can read how the animation was created by Betty Day, Dave Hall, John Percy, Kevin Davies, Val Lord & Rod Lord, here: http://www.rodlord.com

020 > Sprocket Science 3.0

Digitisation Progress / Random Walk / Thank you

TP was a big Hitchhiker's Guide fan and I’m well chuffed that I’ve finally found a way of getting a reference into this documentary project. Last week, I spoke to…

Lucky for me I made a right f-stopping mess of my holiday snaps. Zero exposures. An all time low.

019 > Sprocket Science 2.0

Digitisation Progress / Random Walk / Thank you

This time last week I was feeling a bit disappointed. I’d realised that it would be nigh on impossible for someone like myself to build a ½ decent 16mm film…