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[minervasolo]

Tony Hart has died :(

I knew he was very elderly, though I wasn't aware of the extent of his recent health problems. In his retirement he lived not far from where I grew up, and all the local schools have pictures drawn by him for school fetes.

I wonder what the BBC will do with Morph and Chas now; will they continue to appear on art shows (if they still do - it's been a long while since I saw one) or be retired out of respect?

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[rhube.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is sad. I never clocked on, somehow, that he was the sort of thing that might die. He was frozen in time as the guy off of Hart Beat. With the music and teh gallery and Morph and wot not. I suppose, if I'd thought about it, I'd have realised that he wasn't young when he made that show, but...

Well, I'm sorry to hear that he was gone. That was awonderful piece of children's television. A true piece of our culture, and his gentle, but enthusiastic manner was very much a part of that.

[odangochan.livejournal.com]

I somehow had convinced myself he died several years ago, so this news is confusing to me.

Morph and Chas will not reappear unless new models are made. They perished in the Aardman warehouse fire :(

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

He's had a couple of bad strokes, and siappeared from the public eyes. Apparently he couldn't draw any more after the last one, which really upset him.

There was a Blue Peter bit, years ago, about the Morph animations. With the lights and everything, they usually went through multiple models to get through a single animation (after ten shots the BP presenter made managed to double the length of Morph's arm). I suspect they've got the capacity to make more, but if a lot of their supplies and sets and so on went up in the Aardman blaze then they may have decided it's not worth it.