#Marv Newland

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Bambi Meets Godzilla, Marv Newland, 1969

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Disney’s “live action” Bambi remake prediction

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From a sketch book of mine, circa 1993-94.  Animator and friend, Marv Newland kindly drew this for me.  He is a master of sketch book drawing, often publishing his year’s output and distributing among friends.  They are simply terrific.

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Bambi Meets Godzilla

And now, a true classic of animation in full. No, really. This little short (which, believe it or not, was intended to be live-action at one point) has been voted by animation experts as one of the 50 Greatest Cartoons in a 1994 book! It came in number 38, beating some real classics. I guess the appeal of this thing is down to being very simple gags really well done. It has been a staple of midnight movie showings as a supporting feature for many years, it even turned up on the VHS of The Return of Godzilla/Godzilla 1985. I could go on about it, but there is such a thing of over explanation; just take a couple of minutes to watch this nice little 4K scan of an original print...

[fredfilmsblog]

Network Branding 1988-1990 The Best of Original Cartoons

TV Heaven and HA! TV Comedy Network

Fred/Alan, Inc. New York

For a quick minute in the late 1980s, Nickelodeon's ad sales group could not sell Nick-at-Nite advertising ("no one wants black and white reruns!"), so they decided they'd promote themselves as a comedy network.

So, my Fred/Alan partner Alan Goodman and I brought our original idea of TV oldies to a broken down UHF channel in St.Cloud, Minnesota, and renamed Channel 47 "TV Heaven." We got more publicity in three weeks than Nick-at-Nite got three years. Nick-at-Nite parent MTV Networks threatened to fire us from all their networks and we had to resign TV Heaven.

But not before we made some awesome station identifications with our indie animation friends.

In 1990, MTV Networks revived the idea of an all comedy network in a panic after HBO launched the Comedy Channel. Fred/Alan convinced MTVN to brand theirs as HA! The TV Comedy Network, and we went to work.

(Neither The Comedy Channel or HA! succeeded and they merged, Fred/Alan named the venture "Comedy Central" and the rest is comedy television history.)

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Creative directors: Alan Goodman & Fred Seibert

Producer: Tom Pomposello Logo design: Noel Frankel ..... TV Heaven station identifications 1988

Production companies: International Rocketship, Vancouver BC; Fred Mogubgub, NY. . . . . . HA! network identifications 1990 Production companies: Lou Brooks & Jerry Lieberman, NY; Charlex, NY; International Rocketship, Vancouver BC; (Colossal) Pictures, SF; Marc Karzen, NY.

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Pages 256-259 “The Best of Original Cartoons-Produced by Fred Seibert”

#7 The FredFilms Professional Library (Amazon)

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Accepted Shorts List

This list will be updated as shorts are selected, and will become a masterdoc for entries.

Piper, dir. Alan Barillaro (Available on Disney+)

Dissolve, dir. Carina Heller

Sharp Teeth, dir. David James Armsby

Tar Boy, dir. James Lee

Moses of Prosthesis, dir. Gagame

Quasi at the Quackadero, dir. Sally Cruikshank

Welcome to Hell, dir. Erica Wester

Friendly Shadow, dir. David James Armsby

The Acorn Princess, dir. Kris Yim

Drawn to You, dir. Eleanor Davitt

Scattershot, dir. Jade Smania

Ramshackle, dir. Zi Chen

Paperman, dir. John Kahrs (Available on Disney+, Amazon, iTunes, Google Play)

Loop, dir. Erica Milsom (Available on Disney+)

Jinxy Jenkins & Lucky Lou, dir. Michael Bidinger and Michelle Kwon

Kitbull, dir. Rosana Sullivan

Out, dir. Steven Clay Hunter

In a Heartbeat, dir. Beth David and Esteban Bravo

Ice Merchants, dir. João Gonzalez

Diamond Jack, dir. Rachel Kim

Lackadaisy (Pilot), dir. Fable Siegel

The Cat Came Back, dir. Cordell Barker

Fuelled, dir. Michelle Hao and Fawn Chan

The Man Who Planted Trees, dir. Frédéric Back

My Friends Take the Night Bus, dir. Sofi

Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers, dir. Nick Park

The Naked King -What a Beautiful Life-, dir. rapparu

Coming Out, dir. Cressa Maeve Beer

Dear Girl, dir. Choi Ji-eun

Jibaro, dir. Alberto Mielgo (Available on Netflix, Love Death + Robots S3E9)

The Witness, dir. Alberto Mielgo (Available on Netflix, Love Death + Robots S1E3)

The Legend of Pipi, dir. Julia Schoel and Birgit Uhlig

The Cameraman's Revenge, dir. Wladyslaw Starewicz

What's Opera, Doc? dir. Chuck Jones

The Dover Boys at Pimento University; or, The Rivals of Roquefort Hall, dir. Chuck Jones

Kitty Kornered, dir. Bob Clampett

A Wild Hare, dir. Tex Avery

Everything Will Be OK, dir. Don Hertzfeldt

Yankee Doodle Daffy, dir. Friz Freleng

Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century, dir. Chuck Jones

Long Gone Gulch, dir. Tara Billenger and Zach Bellissimo

I Love to Singa, dir. Tex Avery

Opal, dir. Jack Stauber

Scaredy Cat, dir. Chuck Jones

I Should Leave This Mall I Think, dir. Noodle

Porky's Duck Hunt, dir. Tex Avery

Bambi Meets Godzilla, dir. Marv Newland

Porky in Wackyland, dir. Bob Clampett

Rabbit Seasoning, dir. Chuck Jones

One Froggy Evening, dir. Chuck Jones

Don vs. Raph, dir. Jhonen Vasquez

Cat City, dir. Victoria Vincent

Roller Coaster Rabbit, dir. Rob Minkoff

Tummy Trouble, dir. Rob Minkoff

Trail Mix-Up, dir. Barry Cook

Blood Bound, dir. Lyly Hoang

Ciao, Alberto, dir. McKenna Harris (Available on Disney+)

Blackfly, dir. Christopher Hinton

Charlie the Unicorn: The Grand Finale, dir. Jason Steele

Free Apple, dir. Ian Worthington

Bigtop Burger Season 1, dir. Ian Worthington

There's a Man in the Woods, dir. Jacob Streilein

Llamas with Hats: The Series, dir. Jason Steele

Welcome to my Life, dir. Elizabeth Ito

Duck Amuck, dir. Chuck Jones

We Can't Live Without Cosmos, dir. Konstantin Bronzit

Geri's Game, dir. Jan Pinkava

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68. Snow-White, dir. Dave Fleischer

69. DAICON IV Opening Animation, dir. Hiroyuki Yamaga

70. Rooty Toot Toot, dir. John Hubley

71. SHOP: A Pop Opera, dir. Jack Stauber

72. Rabbit of Seville, dir. Chuck Jones

73. The Cat Concerto, dir. Joseph Barbera and William Hanna

74. My Little Goat, dir. Tomoki Misato

75. Asparagus, dir. Suzan Pitt (Available on the Criterion Channel)

76. Puparia, dir. Shingo Tamagawa

77. The Cybernetic Grandma, dir. Jiří Trnka

78. Captain Yajima, dir. Ian Worthington

79. Agoraphobia, dir. Victoria Vincent

80. Donald in Mathmagic Land, dir. Hamilton Luske, Wolfgang Reitherman, Les Clark and Joshua Meador

81. Joy Street, dir. Suzan Pitt (Available on the Criterion Channel)

82. The Old Man and The Sea, dir. Aleksandr Petrov

83. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, dir. Aleksandr Petrov

84. Vincent, dir. Tim Burton

85. World of Tomorrow, dir. Don Hertzfeldt

86. World of Tomorrow Episode 2: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts, dir. Don Hertzfeldt (pay per view of Vimeo)

87. The Magic Portal, dir. Lindsay Fleay

88. The Golden Chain, dir. Adebukola Bodunrin and Ezra Claytan Daniels (available on the Criterion Channel)

89. Black Soul, dir. Martine Chartrand

90. Hedgehog in the Fog, dir. Yuri Norstein

91. Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend: The Flying House, dir. Windsor McCay

92. Around is Around, dir. Evelyn Lambart and Norman McLaren

93. Popeye the Sailor Meets Sinbad the Sailor, dir. Dave Fleischer

94. Historia Naturae (Suita), dir. Jan Svankmajer

95. Still Lost I Guess, Here's a Tunnel, dir. Dario Alva

96. Kapaemahu, dir. Joe Wilson, Dean Hamer and Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu

97. Long-Haired Hare, dir. Chuck Jones

98. Muto, dir. Blu

99. Windy Day, dir. John and Faith Hubley

100. Bully for Bugs, dir. Chuck Jones

101. The Haunted Hotel, dir. J. Stuart Blackton

102. Destino, dir. Dominique Monfery (Available on Disney+)

103. Fantasy, dir. Vince Collins

104. To Beep or Not To Beep, dir. Chuck Jones

105. Pixillation, dir. Lillian Schwartz

106. Goodbye Jerome!, dir. Chloé Farr, Gabrielle Selnet and Adam Sillard (Available on the Criterion Channel)

107. Betty Boop's Halloween Party, dir. Dave Fleischer

108. Jumping, dir. Osamu Tezuka

109. Baby Fingers, dir. Adrian Dalen

110. On Your Mark, dir. Hayao Miyazaki

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A Marv Newland Cartoon, Sing Beast Sing. Music Willie Mabon

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The AGFA Horror Trailer Show (2020)

featuring: “Bambi Meets Godzilla” by Marv Newland (1969)

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A snapshot in time of the animation scene in Vancover, April 1995.  I picked up this free paper while visiting Marv Newland at his International Rocketship studio, so animation was certainly in the zeitgeist then!  Westender, April 6th, 1995.

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Pink Komkommer

animated short film by Marv Newland & Paul Driessen

International Rocketship Limited (1991)

https://grimhistory.blogspot.com/

[mashymilkiesinc]

Betcha didn't know that SOMETHING HISTORIC OCCURRED ON MAY 7TH, 2024! The first season directors of DUCKMAN gathered at Musso and Frank's in the first reunion after almost 30 YEARS!

Top Photo: (Left to Right) Norton Virgene, Paul Demeyer, John Eng, Raymie Muzquiz and Jeff McGrath. Missing is our esteemed colleague and worldwide gadabout, Marv Newland.

Bottom Photo: Marv expressed his expressed his regrets in a letter with his take on what the event would look like. Quite an astute interpretation.

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AX1000 : Contextual Studies in Animation (Semester 1) 

For week 4 of contextual studies we looked at short narrative films, first we examined an animation by Richard Condie called The Big Snit, I personally didn’t like the design or animation style but the story was very good and entertaining because the story was clever and comedic, in short it is about a married couple who are having a game of scrabble before they get an emergency bulletin about imminent nuclear attack.

After we watched a short animation by Alison Snowden called Second Class Mail, again personally I didn’t like the style to this animation or much to the story either. The story in brief is about a woman who orders an inflatable husband in the post.

Next, we looked at an animation called The Cat Came Back by Cordell Barker. Personally, I really enjoyed the comedic style of the animation and the story was equally as funny, in short, this film is about a guy who keeps trying to get rid a cat that is annoying him but somehow it keeps finding its way back to him. you can tell that the animator was very influenced by other animations like Looney tunes and various other 80/90′s cartoons.

Following we watched two very short animation by Marv Newland first one was called Bambi meets Godzilla, the animation is minimal, and the design style is very poor but the punchline to the story if funny but sadly that’s all it is; the only thing going good for it was the joke. The second film was called Lupo The Butcher, this animation was visually much better than the previous and was considerably much funnier, the animation is about a very annoyed, bitter and vulgar butcher who is not having the best of days.

Finally, as a group we watched a short animation by Andreas Hykade named nuggets, once again this is an animation I had come across before and I absolutely love it. The animation is beautiful and seamless, the character although quite basic is very likeable and the use of certain colours have been used very cleverly plus the story is amazing, intelligent and meaningful. The gist of the film is about a small bird like character that keeps coming across golden coloured nuggets as it walks which it slurps up, then it is intoxicated for a short period of time from consuming it, which incrementally gets shorter in effect each time it consumes another nugget, this is to representing the creatures ever increasing tolerance to the drug, till eventually they do nothing for the bird all the while it’s physical appearance is vastly deteriorating. The reason for this animation is to highlight the detrimental effects of drug addiction and dependency. 

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Anijam (1984)

[fredfilmsblog]

Best of Original Cartoons: Nickelodeon 1984-1992

Nickelodeon network IDs from fredseibert on Vimeo.

The Jive 5 on Nickelodeon from fredseibert on Vimeo.

Nickelodeon Camp IDs 1988-1990 from fredseibert on Vimeo.

The MTV network identification work that Alan Goodman and I did that stamped "brand!" all over the channel's launch in 1981, along with the promotion work my team did for the channel, led MTV Networks president Bob Pittman to ask our new, innovative media branding company (the world's first!) to get involved in saving Nickelodeon from extinction in 1984.

We were most excited about the creative work we could do not only with our new indie animation buddies from the MTV projects, but also with some of the newer folks we’d met since that first go. Eli Noyes and Kit Kit Laybourne started us off, but then came Jon Kane, Marv Newland, and eventually David Lubell and Charlex. And, as the years went on our friend, producer/artist Howard Hoffman, who was running a summer animation program at his childhood camp in Maine came in with maybe the most revolutionary idea of our entire tenure with Nick. 

Since Alan and I always started with the sound-before-picture probably the most distinctive and memorable element of these new IDs would be our new friendship with singer Eugene Pitt and his vocal group The Jive 5. (You can get the whole story here.)

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Agency: Fred/Alan, New York Creative directors/Executive producers: Fred Seibert & Alan Goodman   Producer for Fred/Alan: Tom Pomposello Production companies: Noyes & Laybourne, NY; Joey Ahlbum, NY; Jerry Lieberman, NY. ; David Lubell; Optic Nerve/Jon Kane, NY; International Rocketship/Marv Newland, Vancouver,BC; Howard Hoffman, NY; Olive Jar Studios, Boston, Edward Bakst, NY; Buzzco, NY; Charlex, NY; (Colossal) Pictures, SF.

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[weirdlandtv]

Anijam (1985), by Marv Newland. A pretty bizarre and entertaining short. It’s just bonkers really, but fun.