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Computer animation - The Atlas Computer Laboratory

Time: 1968

Place: Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Details: The Atlas Computer Laboratory near Oxford was for many years a major facility for computer animation in Britain. The first entertainment cartoon made was The Flexipede, by Tony Pritchett, which was first shown publicly at the Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition in 1968.

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