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Wednesday, February 20th, 2019

RefPack Bonus: Download Schmidt’s Beer Commercials Designed By Ed Benedict

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Every other month, members of Animation Resources are given access to an exclusive Members Only Reference Pack. These downloadable files are high resolution e-books on a variety of educational subjects and rare cartoons from the collection of Animation Resources in DVD quality. Our current Reference Pack has just been released. If you are a member, click through the link to access the MEMBERS ONLY DOWNLOAD PAGE. If you aren’t a member yet, please JOIN ANIMATION RESOURCES. It’s well worth it.


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Schmidt's Beer Commercial Reel

Schmidt’s Beer Commercial Reel
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Paul Fennell Studios (ca. 1956)

It isn’t often that you have the opportunity to follow the development of a television advertising campaign from beginning to end, but this is one of those rare occasions. Ed Benedict designed a series of spots for Schmidt’s Beer with director Paul Fennell in the mid-1950s. This reel is a complete collection of spots that chart a fascinating evolution. The pitch becomes focused, and Benedict’s style evolves from round cute animals, to simple stick figures, all the way to hyper stylized characters similar to his designs for Tex Avery’s “Field and Scream”. Benedict’s layouts in these spots are brilliant, and even though Fennell’s animation is by necessity simple due to the limitations of television budgets, it is still rhythmic, snappy and very fun.

This reel of animated commercials produced by the Paul Fennell Studios includes spots that haven’t been seen in over 75 years. We thank the family of Paul Fennell for sharing them with us.

REFPACK005: Schmidt’s Beer Commercials
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Schmidt's Beer Commercials
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Schmidt's Beer Commercials
Schmidt's Beer Commercials


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Thursday, September 6th, 2018

STUDENTS! Join Animation Resources For Back To School

STUDENT MEMBERSHIP SIGNUP: https://animationresources.org/membership/levels/

Back to school time is time to save when you join Animation Resources as a student member! For the month of September our Student Membership will be discounted to only $50/year! Best of all, you will continue to get that savings every year you renew as a student for up to three years! This applies to full time educators too. Why should you join? Each week we’ll be highlighting another reason!

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Monday, August 13th, 2018

Problems With Disk Array

Animation Resources had a disk array go down this morning. It’s the third time this array has acted up. It dates back many years, so it’s time to replace it. We just ordered a new array which will cost $1,000 without drives. We may have enough drives here to cobble it together, but our funds are too low right now to buy all new drives.

If you are considering joining Animation Resources, now would be a very good time to do that. The annual dues are $85 for general membership and $60 for students and educators. We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit, so your membership dues may be tax deductible. Every cent we take in goes to expanding our archive and sharing the treasures with you. Please help.

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TUESDAY UPDATE: We’ve been able to get the crashed array about 80% back. Currently, we’re moving data off the array to another drive, but it’s a slow process that will take days. This array contains terabytes of material. Once the existing data has been backed up, we’ll try repairing the drive and see if we can rescue the rest. If that fails, we’ll try to resurrect the data from backups. Most of our disk arrays are 5 to 8 years old. They have been running constantly 24/7. It’s time to replace them with more modern, safer arrays.

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