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Rest in Peace. I assume someone's broken the news to Andi Peters.
"Hart got his break in television in 1952, after an encounter with a BBC producer. In a subsequent meeting, the producer asked Hart to draw a fish blowing bubbles. In the time it took to ask his secretary to bring paper, Hart had drawn the illustration on a paper napkin."
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Posted by
Brock, around 17th January 2009:
I figured you'd be choked up by this news, Mr Moc...
Posted by
arsepuppy, around 18th January 2009:
Oh dude the year's only 3 weeks or so old and we've already lost Paddy McGoohan, Khan off "Wrath of Khan", "Danger, Will Robinson" robot dude and Findus of Crispy Pancakes fame.
And now, Mrs Andi Peters :(
Boo.
there'll be none of us left by christmas
Posted by
Grim..., around 22nd January 2009:
And the chap that wrote Rainbow Islands has died.
Posted by
syl, around 22nd January 2009:
I'm very sad about Tony Hart. I have lovely childhood memories of his shows.
Posted by
che, 23rd January 2009:
:(
Only just heard about this as just got back from honeymoon
Posted by
Miki, 23rd January 2009:
I dont actually know any of these people, but I feel bad for you all
now tell us all about the honeymoon!!
Posted by
che, around 24th January 2009:
:D
Am looking through the photos now.
Honeymoon was excellent
Cuba is great (if a little crumbling)
:)
Grim..., ... what chap? Was trying to look that up but all it says is that it was made by Taito.
Posted by
WarHead, around 2nd March 2009:
Morph Flashmob on Bankside. Nice tribute.
morph was a tony hart creation!?! i didn't know that.
another tip of the hat.
Posted by
che, around 5th March 2009:
morph was a regular feature on tony hart's show, although I beleive that it was made by Aardman (or what would become Aardman), before Wallace and Gromit.
I can't be bothered to google it.
Morph was created by Peter Lord originally for "Vision On" IIRC.
Peter Lord went on to form Aardman later on. Reminds me of a few weeks ago in Bristol where me and t'other half found ourselves sitting on the same table at a bar as Mr Lord and Graeme Garden off The Goodies. Very surreal.
Posted by
che, 5th March 2009:
As name dropping goes, in certain circles those are quite good
It was at a silent film festival, you would've enjoyed it Chay, as not only was it just the silent films, there was also other added stuff like Eric Sykes giving a career retrospective talk (we couldn't get tickets for that particular show but I hear it was brilliant), The Goodies (minus Oddie) doing the same, Paul Merton doing his usual, the cast of Vision On (minus Mr Hart, obv) faithfully recreating a 1920's night at the pictures, and the Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain doing a great gig (doing ukelele covers of songs such as "Crazy Horses" and "White Lines (Don't Do It)" over old newsreel footage.
But more up your street in particular was stuff like Mr Lord, Barry JC Purves and Richard Williams (yes, the Roger Rabbit Richard Williams) taking the audience through their favourite cinematic pratfalls from the silent era, via Tex Avery's stuff and through to recentish eastern bloc animation. T'was great, Williams is a natural showman and all round nutter, and Barry is a lovely guy (teh mrs was chatting to him for ages in the green room whilst I was back at the hotel sleeping off a mega hangover). Didn't get to chat to Peter Lord but we know one of his colleagues (the Aardman archivist is a friend of ours)
I feel dirty now, so much namedropping :(