The BBC is reporting the death of animator Mark Hall, co-founder of the Cosgrove Hall Films studio that created beloved ‘80s children’s TV series like The Wind In The Willows, Chorlton And The Wheelies, and—most famously—Danger Mouse. Hall died of cancer at the age of 74.
Together with fellow producer Brian Cosgrove, Hall founded Stop Frame Productions in 1969, before that company folded and gave way to Cosgrove Hall in 1975. Their first successful cartoon was Chorlton And The Wheelies, a surreal effort about a “happiness dragon” adopted by a society of strange creatures who run about ...
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