Bura and Hardwick

Barnett "Bob" Bura and John Hardwick first met in 1955. While the former and the latter's sister were touring seasides with Punch and Judy shows, she became unavailable due to getting married, and recommended her younger brother to take over. In 1962 Bura and Hardwick began their long association with BBC Schools, by Sydney Newman, who used the Theatre's former studio space to film special effects for his creation Doctor Who. which would have doomed Bura and Hardwick's future careers; nonetheless they were hopeful that they would find a good sponsor to continue. Hardwick died in 2004, Bura in 2018. ==Techniques==

Bura and Hardwick utilised many innovative filming techniques, which developed throughout their stop motion work. The film cameras initially used exposed at twenty-four frames a second, At the request of Hardwick, Camberwick and the rest of the Trumptonshire trilogy was filmed in colour as opposed to black-and-white, requiring the first episode (Peter the Postman) to be reshot.{{cite web ==Accolades and legacy==

Bura and Hardwick's 1968 animation of Igor Stravinsky's Petrushka was well received, praised by the BBC as a highlight of that year, and by The Guardian as "by far the most imaginative British use of puppets one has seen on Television". and Quaker Oats,{{cite web ==Filmography==

As puppeteers As animators ==References==