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Searching, Restoring, and Sharing, lost UPA films and materials, as well as, producing a documentary feature on the studio of the 40’s, 50’s, and beyond, “UPA: Magoo, McBoing Boing, and Modern Art”.  Let us know what your interest in UPA Pictures is.

website

Only 4 Pages left to do: Production Company, Interviews, and Links

Pages finished, so far: History, Films, Awards, Updates, Shop, Support, and Contact

UPA Tribute and fundraiser was as great success Click “Updates” for review. Click “Shop” for collectables. sponsored by AniMazing Spotlight! Updates.html

1951 UPA staff with their fist Oscar

1st Bidmailto:upapix@me.com?subject=First%20Crippen%20poster%20bid
other Bidsmailto:upapix@me.com?subject=other%20Crippen%20poster%20bids

Fred Crippen

signing his

poster at

the May 22

UPA Tribute

SOLD

Classic Media owns the UPA TV programs that began in the late 1950s with the “Gerald McBoing Boing Show” on CBS, and then continuing on into the 1960s, with the latest being a show of the same name for Cartoon Network in the early 2000s. Classic Media also owns the rights to all the UPA characters. (if you want UPA television shows or want to use one of the UPA characters, click this panel for the Classic Media site)http://classicmedia.tv/
Sony Pictures owns the UPA theatricals that Columbia had from 1948 thru 1959, which includes roughly one hundred shorts, plus the “1001 Arabian Nights” feature, with Mr. Magoo. There has been talk about the possibility of releasing a UPA box set of DVDs, with all the theatricals, about half of which are Mr. Magoo cartoons, but as of this writing, we’ve heard nothing actually happening. (click this panel for Sony’s site)http://sonypictures.com/
http://classicmedia.tv
Since 1978, recording animation luminaries for the benefit of future generations. The site has 44 of the 160+ interviews conducted so far, and we will be starting up on our next round of interviews as soon as we can. Thanks for listening.http://www.tooninanimation.net

“Complex Villianelle”

Visitors to this “new” site since 9 March 2010.

Original site went up on

18 February 2005.

The two most frequently asked questions for us are ...






1. Where can I get copies of the UPA Theatricals?       


        Answer: Sony Pictures


                      and


2. Where can I get copies of the UPA TV shows and/or How can I get the rights to UPA characters?

     

         Answer: Classic Media

But, if you want to find out more about lost UPA films,

rare archives, and the progress of the feature documentary, you in the right place.  Have fun navigating around our pages.  We plan to be conducting more interviews, raising funds to license film clips, and promoting UPAs legacy whenever and wherever possible.

On June 24 AniMazing Spotlight announced the two Third Quarter winners, which will vie with the

other quarterly winners for Best

of Festival at their upcoming 2010 Second Annual Animated Shorts festival.  Click either image for

more information on their website.


“A Complex Villainelle” (image below) is a joint project by a number of students, including Bart Ovaitt, Rebecca Forth, Nathan Billington and Ryan Porter, at the University of Colorado, Denver’s Digital Animation Center. It’s a fictitious tale about fictitious characters,

such as, the Penguin, Batman,

and Mary Poppins, extremely clever, funny, and very well

done in 3D computer animation.


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“Kidnap” (image above) is a totally different sort of animated short by Sijia Luo, from Chengho, China.  Sijia studied first at the Beijing Film Academy and then went to UCLA’s Animation Workshop. As many

of the panelists commented,

this delightful little short uses

a magnificent color palette, and although it’s in computer animation, has a look of hand-drawn.

“Kidnap”

Our apologies to David Dubrino, the designer of the original upapix site. However, we do hope to return to a closer version of David’s original creation after the UPA Tribute, and Ragtime Bear cel auction, and we get all

the information returned, and the new information updated.

 

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