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'''Perennial Pictures Film Corporation''' was an animation studio located in Indianapolis that was founded in 1979 by Russ Harris and | '''Perennial Pictures Film Corporation''' was an animation studio located in Indianapolis that was founded in 1979 by Russ Harris and G. Brian Reynolds. While the studio animated commercials for different companies in its early beginnings, they were best known for ''Crawford the Cat'' and their specials, most of them center around Christmas. While most of the studio's productions can be found online like streaming services, others (including series pitches) either remain lost or have its existence confirmed by news media outlets or the company themselves. | ||
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Revision as of 04:27, 30 December 2022
The company's logo.
Status: Partially Found
Perennial Pictures Film Corporation was an animation studio located in Indianapolis that was founded in 1979 by Russ Harris and G. Brian Reynolds. While the studio animated commercials for different companies in its early beginnings, they were best known for Crawford the Cat and their specials, most of them center around Christmas. While most of the studio's productions can be found online like streaming services, others (including series pitches) either remain lost or have its existence confirmed by news media outlets or the company themselves.
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Lost Perennial Productions and Production Details
Scuddle Mutt (1982)
Status: Lost
Scuddle Mutt was a series of interstitials that premiered in 1982 on ABC affiliate WXYZ aimed at preschoolers. It was the company's first (and only) series until the aforementioned Crawford the Cat in 2002. 13 interstitials (which are 30 seconds in length) were made in total according to Perennial's website, all of which remain lost to this day. Notably, the characters will later appear in another one of Perennial's Christmas specials, Jolly Ol' St. Nicholas.
MyCrobes
Status: Existence confirmed
MyCrobes was a concept pitch from the studio that was not much known about it outside of it being about germs living inside a human body. According to the Animation News World article on the company, this is one of the three series ideas Perennial pitched to Frederator Studios. They turned the idea down as Frederator thought they weren't "too excited" about a short film/pilot about germs living in a human body, and out of the three series concepts, Handycat was chosen to be made into a pilot instead.
Crawford's Classics: Cinderella (2007)
Status: Partially found
Crawford's Classics was the name given to what was supposed to be a series of made-for-TV movies based on the Crawford's Corner cartoons where Crawford and his friends recite classic stories. The first out of them will have Crawford and his friends reciting Cinderella. It's currently unknown if production of the special was completed, but clips and SWF sample files from the special can be found on Perennial's website, their demo reel and on the Crawford the Cat Twitter account.
Five Days
Status: Partially lost
Five Days was a pilot short for a potential series. It's unknown what year this was created and what is it about, but strangely, this wasn't listed in Perennial's website. A clip can be seen in Perennial's demo reel.
Original Crawford the Cat Incarnations (1990's)
Status: Existence confirmed
Crawford's Corner was a series of shorts released in 2002 centering around the titular Crawford the Cat, a polite and well-organized green cat, along with his friends Harriet the hare and Millow the mouse. The shorts are intended to teach kids about proper etiquette techniques such as cleaning rooms, doing exsersizes, brushing teeth and washing hands. Creation and development for Crawford the Cat goes back in the 1990's. While production and development for the shorts remain obscure, Jerry Reynolds on the company's blog said that Crawford was originally going to be a black and white cat. As they were about to ink and paint the first Crawford short, they opened a Kidscreen magazine and got into an ad of a then-upcoming cartoon featuring a black cat. As a result, they settled on green because they thought they don't see any green cats in animation, as well as slightly tweaking proportions of his face and body.
The first incarnation of Crawford was a direct-to-video Christmas film, as the characters were originally convinced for the film. While it didn't happened, the idea will be resurrected years later as a special. The second incarnation of Crawford the Cat was an unknown birthday special aimed at preschoolers. It is unknown was the story of the special will be and not much was known about this. By the time the incarnation was being made, Perennial Pictures was getting very close on how the final Crawford series will play out.
Gallery
Original Crawford the Cat design, as mentioned.
Ditto, but a model art.
References
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