Marv Newland

Marv Newland March 9 1947 is an AmericanCanadian filmmaker specialized in animation Newland began a career making animated motion pictures in Los Angeles with the creation of the short Bambi Meets Godzilla 1969 He then designed and animated television commercials until late 1970 when he moved to Toronto Ontario Canada While in Toronto 19701972 he designed directed and animated television commercials for Sesame Street and Educational Television and segments for longer films Newland was also one of two designers and storyboard artists on the Cinera Productions cartoon Super Joe 1971 He was a storyboard designer on an unemployment insurance film at Crawley Films in Ottawa and created designs and layouts for TV commercials for PhosCine Productions in New York In late 1972 Newland moved to Vancouver British Columbia Canada He spent two years freelancing for local animated film production companies as well as animation companies in Chicago and Los Angeles In 1973 Newland created storyboards for the animated television series Barbapapa while at Toonder Studios in the Netherlands In 1975 Newland founded the animated film production company International Rocketship Limited in Vancouver British Columbia At Rocketship he produced and directed numerous animated short films including Sing Beast Sing 1980 Anijam 1984 Hooray for Sandbox Land 1985 Black Hula 1988 which later featured on an early episode of Liquid Television Pink Komkommer 1991 and Fuv 1999 Beijing Flipbook 2003 Tete A Tete A Tete 2005 Postalolio 2008 CMYK 2010 Scratchy 2016 Katalog Of Flaws 2019 In 1979 Marv hired Gordon Stanfield Animation GSA and later Gordon went on to bring more animation to Vancouver British Columbia The company also produced short animated films for other directors such as Danny Antonucci Lupo the Butcher 1987 and J Falconer Dog Brain 1988 Newland also designed and directed the National Film Board of Canada vignette Bill Miner 1978 In 2001 Newland produced three animated films by two other directors Friday Night Idiot Box by Bruce Wilson and Explodium and My Friend Max by Peter MacAdams Later projects have included Scratchy and POSTALOLIO 2008 a 2D animated film in which all of the drawings were handpainted on postcards and sent through the international mail to the films producer Frederator Studios in New York City All of these are International Rocketship Limited Productions His film Anijam was included in the Animation Show of Shows The Academy Film Archive has preserved several of Marv Newlands films including Anijam Bambi Meets Godzilla and Black Hula Description above from the Wikipedia article Marv Newland licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia