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Paul Fennell

Visual Effects

Biography

Paul Fennell was a storyboard artist who got his start as an animator at Disney Studios in 1933, contributing as an uncredited animator to shorts such as Mickey’s Mellerdrammer (1933), Mickey’s Mechanical Man (1933), and Father’s Noah’s Ark  (1933). Leaving in 1933 to work at Leon Schlesinger, alongside other Disney animators, Bill Mason and Tom Palmer, Paul Fennell produced animations for Warner Bros., and during the war directed cartoon propaganda films for the army.  In the early ’40s, Fennell formed an independent company called Cartoons, Ltd., developed with Jerry Brewer and Ed Benedict, producing animations such as This Changing World, released in 1941 by Columbia pictures, and theatrical advertisements mixing live action and animation, for corporations such as Sunkist, Esso Gas, and The American Tobacco Company.  From: http://rarebit.org/?people=paul-fennell

Known For

Popeye the Sailor
7.1

Follows the adventures of the famed spinach-eating sailor man. Popeye is one of the most popular cartoon characters of all time. This spunky but loveable spinach-eating sailor continues to delight young and old with his comic adventures, and the entire gang is around to provide plenty of rousing fun and action: Olive Oyl, Swee'Pea, Wimpy and Bluto.

Popeye the Sailor

1960
The Mr. Magoo Show
6.7

The Mister Magoo Show is an American animated television series which was produced from November 7, 1960 to February 2, 1962. A single episode included five five-minute shorts and could either be aired together with bumpers as a single half-hour show, or it could be split up with one short aired each weekday, along with other cartoons. It was produced by United Productions of America.

The Mr. Magoo Show

1960
Santa's Workshop
6.6

Santa's little helpers must hurry to finish the toys before Christmas Day.

Santa's Workshop

1932
Birds in the Spring
6.2

Two birds rejoice over the hatching of their three eggs; as they grow, the hatchlings are taught to sing and fly. One falls from the nest and has adventures with a rattlesnake and a beehive before finding his way home.

Birds in the Spring

1933
Mickey's Mechanical Man
6.4

Mickey has built a robot to compete in the boxing ring against the giant gorilla, the Kongo Killer. Whenever it hears Minnie's car horn, it goes crazy and starts punching any picture of Killer that it sees, even if it's on a brick wall, thus hurting itself. Mickey manages to barely patch his robot together to take on Killer, but after some early success, it gets pummeled by the ape. Minnie fetches the car horn, which brings it back, and it trounces Killer, then flies apart.

Mickey's Mechanical Man

1933
Mickey's Mellerdrammer
6.0

Mickey Mouse and his friends stage their own production of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Mickey's Mellerdrammer

1933
Father Noah's Ark
6.1

Noah, his family (wife, 3 sons, their wives), and various animals all help build the ark. The rains come, and the skunks barely miss the boat (not that anyone was particularly looking for them), but they manage to swim to it. After the rain and many lamentations by the humans, the sun returns, to the great joy of all. The ground appears, and the animals (and many new babies) disembark.

Father Noah's Ark

1933
King Neptune
6.5

After a short introduction, one of Neptune's mermaids is captured by a pirate ship, and their anchor chain entangles King Neptune; the various sea creatures launch a full-on assault on the pirate ship, and eventually the giant King himself gets free and creates major havoc for the ship.

King Neptune

1932
Larry Harmon's Bozo: The World's Most Famous Clown
3.0

There's plenty of fun and surprises to jog your noggin' as “BOZO" and his silly sidekicks take you from one terrifical adventure to the next. Bibbity dippity bibbity bop... once you start laughing you're never going to stop! 30 MINUTES, COLOR FULLY ANIMATED FUN A SUPERIOR QUALITY VIDEO. Fully Animated cartoons plus special live ”BOZO” appearances.

Larry Harmon's Bozo: The World's Most Famous Clown

1992
How War Came
5.5

An animated documentary describing the involvement of Japan, Italy and Nazi Germany as the aggressors and instigators of World War II.

How War Came

1941
To Spring
6.9

Gnomes greet the coming of spring by manufacturing various bright colours.

To Spring

1936
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7.0

Radio commentator Swing is seen at the beginning, introducing the animated film to follow. The action shows the various treaties and non-aggression pacts of the 1930's and how they served to expose the foolish trust the allied countries put in them, when Hitler broke them all in his march of conquest.

Historical Reel: Broken Treaties

1941
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10.0

Carpenters Clancy, Mr. Teewilliger and Herman bumblingly struggle to build a house with disastrous results.

The Carpenters

1941
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Popeye the Sailor Man cartoon

Dead-Eye Popeye