Paris, France-based Salsa Distribution has acquired the Latin American
television distribution rights to the half-hour television special GOGWANA.
Produced by London-based AARGH! Animation Ltd. for S4C, and directed by
Deiniol Morris, GOGWANA is based on THE GOGS, the Stone Age family depicted
in the claymation television series. In the special, after an earthquake
destroys the Gogs' cave, the family goes in search of a new home, and,
along the way, encounters pygmies, dinosaur air-balloons, and pygmy-piloted

New York City-based THE ATTIK has completed two :30 spots for Sol Beer and
agency Amster Yard. In "Disco" a beer acts as a disco ball, emitting
strobing lights. In "Rock N Roll" the can emits electrical charges,
creating a pulsing energy field. James Sommerville directed, and both spots
were created with After Effects, Infinity, Studio Pro and Media 100. Julie
Watkins of New York City-based Manhattan Transfer completed the composite
in Inferno.

Every fan who dreamed of building a car like Speed Racer's Mach 5 will be
interested to know that Speed's ultra-cool car is finally being built by
Long Beach, California-based Focus on Cars, an automotive fabrication
company that caters to the entertainment and advertising industry. The car
will be used to promote a nation-wide safety tour conducted by The Child
Safety Network (CSN) called CHILD SAFETY DAY AT THE RACES. The Mach 5 will
privately debut at the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) Show -

San Francisco-based Protozoa, with DotComix, the animation portal at
www.dotcomix.com, has produced a 3D animated rock video for Internet
broadcast with Garry Trudeau and his JT Thudpucker character from the
DOONESBURY comic strip for NetAid, a UN sponsored global crusade against
poverty. The video features JT singing a NetAid anthem, and debuts on
Wednesday, September 29 at www.doonesbury.com. Trudeau has integrated the
premiere of the Internet video within the plot of his daily Doonesbury

Milia 2000, the World's Interactive Content Marketplace, which takes place
from February 14 - 18, 2000 in Cannes, France, is calling for entries for
the Milia New Talent Competition. Since its creation five years ago, the
New Talent Competition has provided interactive entertainment and new media
professionals with the opportunity of discovering students' fresh creative
ideas, and offered a new forum for recruiting new talent. A jury composed
of international experts will meet in Paris in December in order to select

Animation-Books.com, in association with ANiMATO!, the animation magazine,
has announced the results of an internet poll of the best animation books
of all time, and THE ILLUSION OF LIFE: DISNEY ANIMATION by Frank Thomas and
Ollie Johnston tops the list. While the list may be biased toward more
recent, easily available English publications, few would argue that this,
for once, is a solid list, and every title belongs in one's animation
library. According to Animation-Books.com, "Polling for the

Bothel, Washington-based Humongous Entertainment, creators of children's
software, and Nickelodeon are releasing BLUE'S TREASURE HUNT, a Blue's
Clues CD-ROM learning adventure for preschoolers. Based on Nickelodeon's
primetime special that aired in March 1999, BLUE'S TREASURE HUNT follows
BLUE'S ABC TIME ACTIVITIES, BLUE'S BIRTHDAY and BLUE'S 123 TIME ACTIVITIES.
In BLUE'S TREASURE HUNT, kids aged three to six team up with Steve and his
Blue's Clues pals to help search for the treasure chest that holds the keys

Macromedia, Inc., leading publisher of Web publishing tools such as
Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Generator, is offering a multi-city Generator 2
Seminar and Training Series for Internet professionals seeking successful
online solutions for e-business, e-commerce, financial services, news &
information and advertising. Generator 2 delivers targeted, real-time
graphics and interactivity for Web sites that feature on-demand content.
Attendees will learn how Ford Motor Company, Internet Shopping Network and

The United States Post Office has issued a Yellow Submarine stamp with The
Beatles which was illustrated by Robin Shepherd and Caleb Lawrence of
Jacksonville, Florida-based The Robin Shepherd Group. The stamp was
officially dedicated on September 17, 1999 in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and the
package of fifteen stamps will be available soon at post offices across the
country. The "Celebrate the Century" stamp series features fifteen stamps
for each decade of the twentieth century. The final stamps were determined

New York-based SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION has completed "Cold Start," a spot
for Prestone antifreeze, for agency Grey Advertising. Spontaneous used 3D
Studio MAX to create the engine and antifreeze. Live-action footage was
produced by New York-based Zero 2 Sixty.

DISNEY INTERACTIVE has promoted JAN SMITH to executive vice president of
Disney's software-development business. Smith will be responsible for
worldwide operations of Disney Interactive, including product development,
marketing, finance and administration, business and legal affairs, and
customer support.

Every year since 1991, the organization CARTOON, with the support of the
MEDIA program of the European Union, selects one European short animated
film as the "Cartoon d'Or," or "best European animation film." This year's
winner, announced at the Cartoon Forum in Corboda, Spain (September 22-26),
is MIGRATIONS by Constantin Chamski (France). The 4-minute CGI film is
distributed by France-based Heure Exquise! where it was also produced. This
year's other nominees were L'ARME DU CROCODILE by Eric Blesin (Belgium), EL

MIPCOM: International Film and Programme Market for TV, Video, Cable, and
Satellite. Starting next week, thousands of producers, programmers and
broadcasters will converge on Cannes, France for the MIPCOM and MIP Junior
markets. From Reed-Midem, the organizers of MIP-TV, MIP Asia and MILIA,
MIPCOM is known as the place where international television deals happen.
Among the properties being offered are Sony Wonder's LION OF OZ AND THE
BADGE OF COURAGE, an animated musical prequel to THE WIZARD OF OZ;

The Museum of Television and Radio in New York and Los Angeles hosts a
retrospective of Hanna-Barbera's television series with a series of
60-minute screenings. The series includes SCOOBY-DOO, THE FANTASTIC FOUR,
SPACE GHOST, SUPERFRIENDS, JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS, MAGILLA GORILLA, TOP
CAT, RICOCHET RABBIT, and YOGI BEAR. The new Spumco/Cartoon Network YOGI
BEAR shorts have sparked a debate among fans regarding the quality of
Hanna-Barbera's YOGI BEAR shorts in particular, and Hanna-Barbera's

Jeffrey Scott will speak at the Women In Animation Writers'
Seminar Series at Saban Entertainment. Jeffrey has written over 450
animation scripts and has won three Emmys and the Humanitas Prize. He
currently works on DRAGON TALES which can be seen on PBS. The event takes
place Thursday, October 14, 7:30 pm in Westwood, California, USA. This is
the last seminar in the series until January. For more information contact
Jean Wright at (818) 360-8321. RSVP required.

From September 22 to 26, the 1999 Cartoon Forum will be welcoming 620
participants, among which will be Animation World Network's own Ron
Diamond, in Cordoba, Spain. This record attendance shows that this event,
organized over the last 10 years with support from the European Union Media
program, has been established as an important industry event. This year
sixty-nine projects seeking partners will be offered to potential investors
and producers. Over 150 projects initiated at the Forum in previous years

Buena Vista's supernatural thriller THE SIXTH SENSE, with visual effects by
DreamQuest, finished third for the second consecutive weekend at the US
boxoffice, grossing an estimated $8.5 million over the weekend, for a total
of $221.8 million. No other animation related films finished in the top ten.

London, UK-based commercial production company PASSION PICTURES has signed
DAVID FEISS and EMMA CALDER as directors. Feiss, a long time veteran, is
best known as the creator of Cartoon Network's COW AND CHICKEN. Calder's
recent film, THE QUEEN'S MONASTERY, has won prizes at film festivals
throughout the world. . . PIXAR ANIMATION STUDIOS has hired ANN MATHER as
its executive vice president and chief financial officer. Mather has more
than eighteen years of financial operations experience, including seven

Seattle, Washington-based REALNETWORKS, a company specializing in Internet
media delivery, has promoted THOMAS FRANK to chief operating officer and
hired MARTIN PLAEHN as senior vice president of media systems. Frank, who
joined RealNetworks in January of this year, was previously senior vice
president of media programming and publishing. Plaehn joins RealNetworks
from Viewpoint Digital, Inc., a computer graphics company, where he was
President. . . UNIVERSAL PICTURES has promoted GREG SUCHERMAN to vice

Glendale, California-based Galaxy Digimation has created a thirty-minute
animated newscast for Universal Studios' The Amazing Adventures of
Spider-Man ride in Orlando, Florida. The Spider-Man ride integrates
roller-coaster thrills, realistic motion simulation, and stereographic 3D
computer-generated effects while immersing riders in a story that
transforms them into active photojournalists. Galaxy Digimation's newscast
plays on monitors while riders wait in line inside the newsroom of The