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tim-2

Gerry Anderson

Gerry must be getting on now
is there anyone taking all his expertise forward ?
He's spent his life working with puppet and model animation and inthe case of UFO... successfully combining real life action with model animation.

I think the format still has huge potential
but with the credit crunch, it might be hard
to get the TV studios to back a new project.

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Marc Martin

Re: Gerry Anderson

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> Gerry must be getting on now
> is there anyone taking all his expertise forward ?

A lot of the expertise of his old series were really with
the people who worked for Gerry. Derek Meddings did
the effects, Barry Gray did the music, Tony Barwick
wrote the scripts, etc. And many of these people have
already passed away.

Also, these days, puppet and model animation has
become obsolete (except for the TEAM AMERICA movie) --
everyone is doing computer animation these days.

Marc

richard curzon

Re: Gerry Anderson

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Anderson is 80 this year.

Rick

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Subject: [SHADO] Gerry Anderson
To: "ufo sci fi" <[hidden email]>
Date: Friday, 3 April, 2009, 7:06 PM

Gerry must be getting on now
is there anyone taking all his expertise forward ?
He's spent his life working with puppet and model animation and in the case of UFO... successfully combining real life action with model animation.

I think the format still has huge potential
but with the credit crunch, it might be hard
to get the TV studios to back a new project.

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Jim Vinton

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I know there was a CGI remake of Captain Scarlet a couple of years ago (2005) which I think he was at least partly involved it.

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Marc Martin

Re: Gerry Anderson

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> I know there was a CGI remake of Captain Scarlet a couple of years ago
> (2005) which I think he was at least partly involved it.

Yes, Gerry was in charge of that, but like I said before, without the
talented people he had working for him in the 1960's, these newer
productions just don't have the same "magic" to them (although
certainly some people liked this new series)

Marc

tim-2

Re: Gerry Anderson

In reply to this post by Jim Vinton

Wow 80 years old !
Gerry has got so much to look back on with his
long career in TV and animation
would n't mind betting he's still got a few projects
on the go too !

If my memory serves it all goes back to
"Torchy the Battery Boy" ... and a few very early TV
programmes like that...
To most of the UK it was just light, television entertainment
but Gerry ... like a magician ..... saw the potential of the medium!