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After a successful Kickstarter campaign “The

Boing Heard Round the World”, the feature

documentary on UPA, about the little studio

that changed the course of modern animation,

has started again. We have a couple of Pixar

story artists on board, as well as a number of

animation filmmakers from AniMazSpot. If any

of you are interested in joining us as writers,

designers, animators, researchers, etc., we

can always use additional help. Just click the

button on the left to explore some possibilities.

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Searching, Restoring, and Sharing, lost UPA films and materials, as well as, producing a documentary feature, “The Boing Heard Round the World”, on the studio of the 40’s, 50’s, and beyond. Let us know what your interest in UPA Pictures is.

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Classic Media owns the UPA TV
programs that began in the late
1950s with the “Gerald McBoing
Boing Show” on CBS, and then
continuing on into the 1960s, with
the latest being a show of the same
name for Cartoon Network in the
early 2000s.

Classic Media also owns the rights
to all the UPA characters.

(if you want UPA television shows
or want to use one of the UPA
characters, click this panel for
the Classic Media site)

Sony Pictures
owns the UPA
theatricals that
Columbia had
from 1948 thru
1959, which
includes roughly one hundred
shorts, plus the “1001 Arabian
Nights” feature, with Mr. Magoo.
The theatricals are basically split
in two categories, all the Magoos
and then the non-Magoo, which
were released under the Jolly
Frolics banner, which was later
dropped, but the name has stuck
for all the non-Magoo theatricals.

Click this panel for Sony Pictures.

Since 1978, recording animation luminaries
for the benefit of future generations.
The site has 44 of the 160+ interviews
conducted so far, and we have now
started up on our next round of interviews. Thanks for listening.

6,626 visitors came here in approximately one year between

9 Mar. 2010 and 26 Feb. 2011.

Original site went up on

18 February 2005, but we had no counter up in those days.

The two most frequently asked questions for us are ...

1. Where can I get copies of the UPA Theatricals?

Answer: Shout Factory

has come out with a DVD set

of the Jolly Frolics shorts.

then,

in the Spring of 2012 TCM

will be coming out with the

Magoo theatricals, including

the Magoo feature.

and

2. Where can I get copies of the UPA TV shows and/or How can I get the rights to UPA characters?

Answer: Classic Media

Although we need to check out

a rumor that Classic Media has

sold their library to someone else.

But, if you want to find out more about lost UPA films, rare archives, and the progress of the feature documentary, you in the right place. Have fun just navigating around our pages. We plan to start conducting more interviews, raising funds to license film clips, and promoting UPAs legacy whenever and wherever possible, next stop Palm Springs, California, in February 2013.

Our apologies to David Dubrino, the designer of the original upapix site. However, we do hope to return to a closer version

of David’s original creation.

This new counter began on

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a member of the UPA Doc Production Team

The Boing Heard Round the World

The definitive T-Shirt for UPA
fans of all sizes, is now available,
modeled here by the legendary
June Foray, and the not so
legendary Tee Bosustow.

Click here or “Shop” for more.

Our Focus for the next year or so will be to finish the documentary feature on UPA, fundraising along the way, with an occasional UPA presentation, and always

on the lookout for a home to house UPA historical materials.

The “eye” from Tell Tale Heart gets you to a brief history of UPA by Adam Abraham, author of the definitive history of UPA, When Magoo Flew, plus a “UPA Gallery of Memories” illustrated by some of the memorabilia in our collection.

The twelfth little girl in Madeline takes you way up hight to one of the most complete filmographies of UPA, from its 1940s industrials, through the 1950s glory years of the Columbia theatricals and

Oscars, to the feature and commercials and television series and specials.

Little Gerald belted out the Boing heard round the world in one of the most acclaimed animated

short in history. This page lists just a small number of UPA’s awards. As soon as we have

some time we will start researching more of UPA’s awards.

If you go to the Production Company page it lists the crew that is starting to form for the UPA

documentary. Then more about Bosustow Media Group is below, with some images of the

early documentary production period, which began earnest in 2003.

Johnny fleas Frankie in this image from Rooty Toot Toot, which gets you to the complete

history of our UPA presentations and Tributes going back to 1978 at Filmex in Los Angeles,

right up to the next one coming up in February of this year in Palm Springs.

James Thurber’s beleaguered little man offers a lily to the Unicorn in the Garden, but this page

offers the visitor nothing at the moment. But, we will soon be moving our Toon in to the World

of Animation archive of 160+ interviews to this UPA site.

Four Additional Buttons

to New Pages

The popular Piels Brothers are here to sell

their local NYC beer and help you follow the

progress of the UPA documentary production.

The Magoo dollar bill

gets you to the new page

that sells UPA collectables.

Clicking Robin Hoodlum

goes to the page that sells

general animation collectables

And, when you speed down

the ski slope with Magoo in his

first short, Ragtime Bear, you find

all sorts of items we want to clear out of our Burbank production office.

Similar to Hell Bent for Election, which asked US citizens to support FDR in 1944 with a single vote, this Support button offers Seven Ways to support our documentary project.

The Backers’ button, which shows a moment in the imaginative life of Christopher Crumpet, sends you to a page that lists all our backers, which began with Kickstarter, and also shows you how you can become a backer and get some groovy gifts.

This is another page we need to get to, so much to do, so little time, but, we’ll try to do this soon. There are plenty of great sites we’d like to connect you to.

You can contact any of our documentary crew members

here, via email or snail mail.

Note: Since we put up this site the Classic Media library has been sold, first to a London media company, and more recently to an LA based company. Once we have the time

to substantiate the new owners we

will add it to our site.