To celebrate Scooby-Doo's 30th anniversary, Cartoon Network will present a 24-hour
SCOOBY-DOO, WHERE ARE YOU? marathon beginning Saturday, October 23 at noon,
a 10-hour marathon of Scooby-Doo movies on Saturday, October 30, and an
eight-hour SCOOBY & SCRAPPY-DOO marathon on October 31. Immediately before
each of the marathons, as well as during them, Cartoon Network will air
live-action footage which will be called THE SCOOBY-DOO PROJECT, in which
the real Scooby Gang heads out into the woods for a documentary in a spoof

Montreal, Canada-based LE JOURNAL DE MONTREAL reported Friday, October 15
that Cinar, producer of such shows as PBS' ARTHUR, THE BUSY WORLD OF
RICHARD SCARRY, ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK and WIMZIE'S HOUSE, substituted
the names of Canadians for work done by non-Canadians to become eligible
for tax credits that were intended to help Canada's film industry. Although
the film company was not named in the newspaper story, the Canadian
Broadcasting Company (CBC) reports that on Friday, in the Canadian House of

FableVision Studios and The Film Studies Program at Boston College are
co-hosting the ASIFA-East Animation Festival for a one-night showing.
FableVision's award-winning animated shorts THE BLUE SHOE and LIVING
FOREVER will be part of a line-up, which also includes the Academy
Award-winner BUNNY and films by Karen Aqua. Admission is free. The event
takes place Wednesday, October 20, at 7:30 pm at Boston College, Devlin
Hall Room 08, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA.
For more information visit www.fablevision.com/asifa.

Digital Processing Systems (DPS), recently released a new animation and
compositing Studio Digital Disk Recorder, dpsReality. Designed for
animators, 2D artists and broadcast designers, dpsReality is based on a
newReality hardware system debuted by DPS at SIGGRAPH 99 and IBC 99.
dpsReality features include a cuts editor for clip preview and final video
output, real time graphic overlay, and four track audio with volume and pan
control. It also ships with a modified version of Eyeon Software's Digital

Buena Vista's supernatural thriller THE SIXTH SENSE, with visual effects by
DreamQuest, finished eighth at the US weekend boxoffice, grossing an
estimated $5.2 million, for a total of $249.9 million. No other animation
related films finished in the top ten.

Seven European animation companies have joined to form a company called the
European Animation Group, although its name is likely to change. The group
hopes to produce a minimum of one animated feature or series per year,
beginning in 2001 with its first feature, the $15 million ELFQUEST, set to
go into production in January 2000. The announcement was made at MIPCOM
held October 4 - 8 in Cannes, France. European Animation Group brings
together seven companies. From France, the partners are

Russian animators Yuri Norstein and Nina Shorina are visiting the US.
ASIFA-Hollywood will host a reception for Yuri Norstein on Thursday,
October 21, 1999 from 7-9 p.m. at ASIFA-Hollywood's Animation Center,
located at 721 South Victory Blvd., in Burbank.
There is no charge to attend this reception. However due to limited
space, reservations are required. To RSVP, please call the ASIFA-Hollywood
office at (818) 842-8330. Born in Moscow in 1941, Norstein is considered
one of the most remarkable animation directors to emerge from the current

British Columbia-based CDIS, a media arts college, is sponsoring
Environment.Com: Generating Community Stewardship and Sustainability for
Our Environment Through New Media. The event takes place October 24, 1999,
11 am - 4 pm at CDIS which is located at 3264 Beta Ave. in Burnaby, British
Columbia, Canada. CDIS's sponsorship includes the use of its 20,000 sq. ft.
campus in Burnaby, complete with high-speed Internet connections, and the
presentation of free seminars on New Media technologies. For more

West Hollywood, California-based RING OF FIRE completed the visual effects
for two spots for the new Infiniti I30 luxury sedan and agency TBWA
Chiat/Day. For "Rain" Ring of Fire added time-lapse clouds, individually
rotoscoped each raindrop and added visual enhancements to the car and its
environment. For "Aspens" they created the mirror's reflection, composited
clouds and birds in trees, and added shadows to the trees.

BUENA VISTA PICTURES MARKETING has promoted MAE JOYCE to vice president of
national publicity, and DAVID SINGH to vice president of creative film
services. JOYCE will be responsible for strategizing, coordinating and
administrating all aspects of national publicity for films released under
the Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures and Hollywood Pictures
banners. Joyce joined Disney in November 1996 after two years as a
publicist with Warner Bros. During her tenure at Disney, she has served as

DISNEY PUBLISHING WORLDWIDE has named STEVE ASTER vice president of
circulation and global operations, and LISA HOLTON has been promoted to
senior vice president, group publisher for global children's books. ASTER
will manage global operations and production services, which includes
manufacturing, printing, and co-printing, as well as a wide range of
services to Disney Publishing Worldwide's licensees. Aster joined The Walt
Disney Company in 1998 as vice president of circulation for Buena Vista

JAMES SOMMERVILLE, co-founder of THE ATTIK, has relinquished his most
recent role as creative director of the New York branch to oversee the
development of the company throughout its five offices in Huddersfield
(England), London, New York, San Francisco and Sydney. While based in
London, Sommerville will continue to direct both commercials and long form
projects through The Attik/New York and London. Also, The Attik's executive
producer JIM MORAN has added managing director to his title and assumed

OXYGEN MEDIA, Geraldine Laybourne's media company founded to provide
content for women, has promoted LISA GERSH HALL to chief operating officer.
She will be responsible for legal matters, finance, human resources,
business affairs and e-commerce. Previously, Hall was general counsel and
chief administrative officer. Oxygen has also hired DAN TAITZ to be general
counsel. He was formerly a partner with New York law firm Friedman Kaplan &
Seiler.

SONY PICTURES FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT (SPFE) has hired TAMARA Y. WOOLFORK as
director of business affairs. Woolfork will be responsible for SPFE's full
range of business affairs negotiations for theatrical motion pictures,
television and direct-to-video productions. Woolfork joins Sony from Warner
Bros. Feature Animation where she served as director of business and legal
affairs for the last three years on projects such as QUEST FOR CAMELOT and
THE IRON GIANT.

The Cinanima International Animated Film Festival will be held November
8-14, 1999, in Espinho, Portugal. In addition to this year's official
competition program, as well as the retrospectives and exhibitions, the
festival web site now offers the festival daily program on their web site.

As the holidays approach our minds turn to licensing and merchandising and
what is going to be on the shelves this winter. In this issue Tarleton
Gillespie takes us on a trip through Toys R Us to determine the meaning of
toys to kids. The French licensing and merchandising market is detailed by
Valerie Rivoallon. Sharon Schatz profiles toon loving Rhino Records and
Karen Raugust looks at how "Sesame Street's" content changes as the popular
show travels around the world. "Toy Wishes" predicts this year's top dozen

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