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From: erict@flatline.UUCP (eric townsend)
Newsgroups: alt.flame,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Saturday morning classics.
Message-ID: <298@flatline.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jan 88 03:01:49 GMT
References: <125DOW@MAINE> <1204@homxb.UUCP> <872@unccvax.UUCP> <1917@celtics.UUCP>
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In article <1917@celtics.UUCP>, roger@celtics.UUCP (Roger B.A. Klorese) writes:
> In article <872@unccvax.UUCP> dya@unccvax.UUCP (Edison Carter) writes:
> >
> >HOW ABOUT THOSE PROGRAM LENGTH COMMERCIALS. "Teenage Mutant Ninja Babies?"
> 
> "Turtles", actually, not "Babies".  And it was a comic book first (and
> many feel it a fine one), not a toy.  The toy set is a spinoff of the
> comic, like the cartoons are.  (I suppose that since "Peanuts" begat
> Snoopy dolls as well as the Charlie Brown specials, the shows are
> program-length commercials?)

I checked the credits on two or three of the afternoon/sat. morn shows.
It appears to me that the 'program lenght commercials' are usually
made overseas (in Japan and China) rather than in America.

Recently there was a news special (on PBS, I think) about animators in 
Japan and China.  They are currently in the stage that the Disney
studios were in the 30s-50s:  A few mavericks with great ideas backed
by hundreds of high school/college students working for the
equivalent of slave labor.  Combine that with their using the Asian
version of Pixar equipment...  It seems to me that they've realised
a huge potential for high profits in aiding the marketing of American
products targeted at children.

On the other hand, on of the major studios in China is about to produce
the first full-length, all Chinese writen/produced/etc feature film.
It's based on an old Chinese childrens tale, and from the clips they
showed on the special, it's going to be one hell of a film.
Their goal for this movie:  To produce a film better than Fantasia.
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