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Douglas Adams & The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

I seem to remember that the BBC couldn't afford any actual computers so all The Book is actually hand-animated.

It was more the computing power was not up to snuff at the time, so it was easier to animate traditionally. These days it's the other way around!
 
I thought some folks would be interested in this:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/unbounders/42-the-wildly-improbable-ideas-of-douglas-adams
A book for all fans of Douglas Adams offering a unique insight into his life and work.


After his death in 2001, Douglas Adams's papers were loaned to his old Cambridge college, St John's – over 60 boxes full of notebooks, research, letters, scripts, jokes, speeches, to-do lists, hard drives and even poems.


The book will reproduce in facsimile form extracts from the archive with explanatory text and footnotes to add context. Developed in close association with Adams’s family and literary estate, 42 will be a full-colour, large-format hardback that follows his career from early collaborations with Graham Chapman to his work on Doctor Who, through the Hitchhiker years, Dirk Gently, his groundbreaking non-fiction book Last Chance to See and his later digital work. Alongside this are details of projects that never came to fruition like a proposed theme park ride and a TV series provisionally entitled The Secret Empire.


All backers (except for those at the digital poster level) will get their name printed in a special list of supporters at the back of the book.
 
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