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Originally Posted by Stuart
My little Nephew's reaction to Morph (the 70s kids TV show).
My little Nephew loves shows such as Waybuloo, In The Night Garden and Sarah & Duck. Yet, yesterday, he was sitting at home watch Waybuloo on Cbeebees, and I was reading online about Aardman Animations' Kickstarter campaign to bring it back being successful enough to make three more episodes than they planned.
Feeling a little nostalgic, I looked up the trailer for the new series. All of a sudden, my nephew lost interest in Waybuloo and looked at my monitor with an amazing look of wonder on his face. So, I looked up Morph on youtube. Found a few old episodes. He loved them. Bought back some happy memories for me too.
Personally, I think that Morph (along with a lot of kids TV shows) had a sort of magic that is a little bit lacking in modern shows. Yes, modern shows have state of the art animation that can be very realistic, but I think a lot of old animation techniques have a charm that CGI doesn't. Not that Morph had bad animation. On the contrary, Aardman were excellent at stop motion animation even then.
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I had exactly the same reaction to Morph from my 18mth old Grandson this Wednesday. There was a short report on the TV about the new Morph videos due to to be released on YouTube and young Jack sat entranced. Later in the day I found a couple of the old videos on YouTube and again he sat mesmerised by this animated lump of clay. Though he was upset when Morph broke into little pieces. ( the ice cream episode)
I have just received a DVD, Morph: The Morph Files which I ordered on Wednesday as part of the 4 for £10 offer from Amazon and look forward to a morning of reminiscences watch that DVD and the 3 others Bagpuss, The Clangers and Frankenstein's Cat. Happy days.