Fred Mogubgub
Directing
Biography
Fred Mogubgub was an animator and painter who first came to attention through his films related to the pop art movement of the 1960s in New York City. In 1961, Mogubgub joined designer Pablo Ferro and Lew Schwartz to form Ferro, Mogubgub and Schwartz. In 1964, he left the company to form Mogubgub, Ltd.
Known For
A soldier, returning home from war, chances upon a stranger who offers to buy his violin. The stranger is none other than the devil.
The Soldier's Tale
Papa Bear and the cubs search the woods for the perfect Christmas tree, but run afoul of the woodland animals who live in the trees they aim to cut down.
The Berenstain Bears' Christmas Tree
A Pop Art extravaganza by Fred Mogubgub from the late-1960s, innovative in the use of the quick cut, this film is a parade of pop icons of its time. Features a pre-Playboy, pre-N. O. W. Gloria Steinem.
The Pop Show
A protest film, reminiscent in part of the famous Picasso painting entitled "Guernica". Expressed in child-like Crayola drawings.
Adagio
Rapidly edited animation set to Don McLean's song "American Pie." Screened in the 1972 New York Film Festival.
American Pie
A parade of popular consumer items cut to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic". A great example of Pop Art in film.
The Great Society
A pop art extravaganza featuring tarot cards. Inks, colors, and pens are taken over by the unconscious, exploding in a fury of nightmarish designs. A combination of live action and animation.
Unknown Reasons
Enter Hamlet is a collage of images in cartoon form of a word put in balloon in each jump-cut scene as that word is said by the narrator Maurice Evans during his “To be or not to be…” soliloquy recording.