User talk:WmTGrant

TV Cartoons, London
Wm Taylor Grant – Staff Editor from 1981 to 1998 WmTGrant (talk) 16:04, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

I suggest that a history of the company would be of note to the legacy of the many talented artists who contributed to its success as an award winning studio dedicated to the production of animated short and feature length films.

The company history is in two parts. From its founding in the unique partnership of George Dunning, a Canadian and John Coates whose family were connected to the Rank Organization. Sister Anne V. Coates was a universally celebrated Feature Film Editor.

The second part would be from George's death in 1979 to John's retirement circa 1998-2000 during what became known as the Golden Age of British Animation. TVC played a key part in a method of colour reproduction known as 'rendering' that became a trend through and beyond the advent of digital processes in the 1990's.

The business method of the studio was to act as an umbrella for each of the many adaptations of classic literary works creating stand-alone financial entities that are now almost all available online. It is with this in mind that a separate 'biography' for the studio and those who worked there, is, I feel, necessary.

I would welcome a collaborator in pursuit of a detailed overview.

Taylor Grant william.t.grant[at]gmail.com