Returned home after Christmas to hear the sad news about Gerry Anderson. I don’t know a lot about the man but I get the impression he would have rather been making movies with real people than working with puppets, but he did amazing things with those lumps of wood and string and created whole worlds as brilliantly realized as any in children’s entertainment or literature. I can’t think of anyone who is responsible for as many icons of my childhood as him, or whose creations inhabited such a large part of my imagination. My toy collection would have been a hell of a lot smaller too.
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Nice tribute, well said.
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Yes – nice tribute. I had a hard time making heads or tales of that Guardian obit (of course, that could just be the copious amounts of cold medicine). I think I had only the one green Dinky T-bird 2. Would have loved the Rolls though….
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He was a true innovator. None of the obits mentioned Supercar, which was my first intro to his work and his earliest ‘marionation’. It seemed wonderful to me at the time. When you think that up until then Captain Pugwash was considered good entertainment you can gauge the import of his legacy.
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