Buzzco Associates, Inc.

Formerly	Perpetual Motion Pictures (1968–1982) Perpetual Animation (1982–1984) Buzzco Productions, Inc. (1982–1984)
Company type	Private
Industry	Animated commercials and short films
Founded	1968
Founder	Buzz Potamkin Hal Silvermintz
Headquarters	New York City, New York , U.S.
Key people	Candy Kugel Marilyn Kraemer
Website	buzzzco.com

Buzzco Associates, Inc. is an animation studio that was founded in 1968 (as Perpetual Motion Pictures) by Buzz Potamkin^[1] with Candy Kugel and Vincent Cafarelli as co-creative directors and Marilyn Kraemer as executive producer.

History

Early work of the studio included the "I Want My MTV" campaign, and the "Top of the Hour" network ID for MTV.^[2][3] The spots mixed live action, rock stars, 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 as Nickelodeon, Sesame Workshop, MTV, HBO Family and ABC, as well as for educational shows such as Sesame Street, Between the Lions and Square One Television. Commercial clients often come to Buzzco because of its ability to integrate diverse print styles into motion. They have often worked with humorous illustrator Norm Bendell, designer of commercials for First Morris Bank and the flea-control program CIBA.

Planned Parenthood: Talking About Sex, created and produced for Planned Parenthood won the Grand Prize for an Educational Film at Annecy in 1997.

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

Filmography

Short films

• 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)^[6]
• Animated Self-Portrait (1988)
• Snowie and the Seven Dorps
• Fast Food Matador (1991)^[7][8]
• We Love It (1992)^[9][10]
• The Ballad of Archie Foley (1995)^[11]
• 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)

Commercials

Commissioned short films

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