Buzzco Associates, Inc.

Formerly	Perpetual Motion Pictures (1968–1982) Perpetual Animation (1982–1984) Buzzco Productions, Inc. (1982–1984) Buzzco Associates, Inc. (1985 to present)
Company type	Private
Industry	Animatedcommercials andshort films
Founded	1968
Founder	Buzz Potamkin Hal Silvermintz
Headquarters	New York City, New York , U.S.
Key people	Candy Kugel Marilyn Kraemer
Website	buzzco.nyc

Buzzco Associates, Inc. is ananimation studio that was founded in 1985 as an offshoot of Perpetual Motion Pictures and Buzzco Productions (asPerpetual Motion Pictures) byBuzz Potamkin^[1] with Emmy Award winner, Candy Kugel and Vincent Cafarelli as co-creative directors and Marilyn Kraemer as executive producer.Buzzco Associates is the longest continually operating animation studio in New York's history.

Buzzco Associates, Inc., traces its lineage to Perpetual Motion Pictures, founded in 1968 by Buzz Potamkin and Hal Silvermintz. Early work of Buzzco included the "I Want My MTV" campaign, and the "Top of the Hour" network ID for Paramount'sMTV.^[2][3] The spots mixed live action with rock stars along music and animation. In 1982, Perpetual Motion Pictures split into Perpetual Animation and Buzzco Productions, Inc., and Vincent Cafarelli and Candy Kugel joined Buzzco. Potamkin left New York in 1984 to form Southern Star Productions^[4] in Los Angeles. As part of the continuing partners' agreement in forming Buzzco Associates, Cafarelli, Kugel and Kraemer decided it was important for them to make independent films.

Buzzco continued with production of commercials, titles, insert programming, sales films and segments for such clients asNickelodeon,Sesame Workshop,MTV,HBO Family andABC, as well as for educational shows such as PBS'sSesame Street,Between the Lions andSquare One Television. Commercial clients often come to Buzzco because of its ability to integrate different print styles into motion. They have often worked with humorous illustrator Norm Bendell, a designer of commercials for First Morris Bank and the flea-control program CIBA.

Talking About Sex: A Guide for Families, created and produced forPlanned Parenthood, won the Educational Film Award at theAnnecy International Animation Film Festival in 1997.^[5]

It's Still Me: A Guide for People with Aphasia & Their Loved Ones, a 17-minute film from 2009, explainsaphasia and offers ways of communicating without words. It was inspired by Kugel's mother, who was aphasic for twelve years after a massive stroke.

• Woman: Who Is Me? (1976)
• Inbetweening America (1977)
• Confessions of a Starmaker (technical assistance, 1978)
• So What If It Rains? (1979) (animation; produced by Manno Productions and Alternate Choice)
• Audition (1980)
• My Film, My Film, My Film (1983)
• A Warm Reception in L.A. (1987)^[7]
• Animated Self-Portrait (1988)
• Snowie and the Seven Dorps (1990)
• Fast Food Matador (1991)^[8][9]
• We Love It (1992)^[10][11]
• The Ballad of Archie Foley (1995)^[12]
• KnitWits (1997)
• KnitWits Revisited (1999)
• Life: A New York Ani-Jam (animated contribution, 1999)
• (it was . . .) Nothing At All (2000)
• Piscis (2001)
• Juan Bobo's Birthday Party (2002)
• Command-Z (2005)
• What I Want (music video, 2005)
• Right (2007)
• dEVOLUTION (2008)
• It's Still Me! A Guide For People With Aphasia & Their Loved Ones (2009)
• The Last Time (2012)
• iHeed: Two Simple Ways To Treat Water (2012)
• iHeed: Access to Family Planning is a Human Right (2013)
• Blessings of the Season (2013)
• My Depression (The Up and Down and Up of It) (2014) (animation)
• Vashti (2018)
• I, Candy (2018)

Commissioned short films

• ActMedia
• Balloon Museum
• CIBA
• Hewitt Associates, Inc.
• MacMillan Cancer Care
• NexView
• Xerox

• Official website

• American animation studios
• Television production companies based in New York (state)
• Entertainment companies established in 1968
• Companies based in New York City
• Privately held companies based in New York City
• Film production companies based in New York (state)

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