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July-August 2015

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Assorted Commercial Reel

Paul Fennell Studios (ca. 1950s)

We continue our series of commercial reels from the Paul Fennell Studios with some spots that look forward to what Hanna-Barbera would be doing a few years later. The principle designer at Fennell was Ed Benedict, who went on to design Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound and many other classic characters for Hanna-Barbera.

Here Paul Fennell’s crew is joined by Hanna-Barbera’s first on-staff animator, Carlo Vinci. Unhappy with the direction the Terry-Toons studio had taken, Vinci had recently relocated his entire family from New York to the West coast to join his old friend Joe Barbera at MGM. But soon after he arrived, the MGM cartoon studio closed its doors, and Vinci was out of work. He was quickly hired by Disney to animate for the wrap around segments in the Disneyland TV series, but Vinci wasn’t happy with the “old boy” attitudes and the slow pace of the work at Disney. He took freelance work for Fennell on commercials and was introduced to Ed Benedict whose design sense lent itself perfectly to Vinci’s animation style. When Hanna-Barbera was formed in 1957, Vinci and Benedict were among the handful of artists who were the first to be hired, and they helped to establish the studio’s house style.

Ed Benedict likely designed and laid out all of these commercials, and Vinci’s animation can be seen sprinkled throughout this reel. The Ipana Toothpaste and the Swiss Creme Sandwich cookie spots appear to be entirely animated by Vinci. This reel of animated commercials produced by the Paul Fennell Studios includes spots that haven’t been seen in over half a century. We thank the family of Paul Fennell for sharing them with us.

REFPACK006: Assorted Commercials

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Broken Treaties / This Changing World

Cartoon Films Ltd. (1941)

When Ub Iwerks decided to end his contract with Columbia Pictures and leave his own studio behind, Paul Fennell stepped up to take over the reins of Cartoon Films Ltd. One of the first projects that was announced early in 1941 was a current events series outlining the recent military actions taken by the Nazis in Europe. This was before Pearl Harbor and many Americans took an isolationist attitude.

Animator Tom Minton, who worked with Fennell at Filmation in the late 70s remembers him screening these cartoons for the crew. Fennell told them that when “Broken Treaties” opened in Westwood in August of 1941, the audience broke into a chorus of boos, reacting to the blatant propagandizing and the caricatures of European leaders that they would have preferred to ignore. When the second film, “This Changing World” debuted in late December of 1941, the reaction was the exact opposite. The attack on Pearl Harbor was in the headlines, and it was clear that the United States was going to war. Audiences responded favorably, and “This Changing World” was nominated for an Academy Award.

It’s clear that Disney was influenced by these films in making “Victory Through Air Power”. They share a similar format, with a commentator at a desk narrating, animated maps and dramatic scenes of battle rendered in limited animation with lots of camera effects. Paul Fennell pioneered the use of animation for propaganda purposes that would be used later at all the major studios, as well as the First Motion Picture Unit.

Because of the ephemeral nature of these films, these two 16mm prints may be the last surviving copies of these films in existence. Animation Resources thanks the family of Paul Fennell for sharing these with us.

REFPACK006: Broken Treaties 1941

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REFPACK006: This Changing World 1941

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