UPA Pictures

“The Boing that Shook the World”

and

“UPA: Mavericks, Magic & Magoo”

are being produced by Bosustow Media Group in association with Artist in Me, LLC

Overview of Bosustow Media Group & the UPA films

In the early 1980’s Tee Bosustow established Bosustow Media group to produce documentaries, and informational programs. Primarily, Tee and other filmmakers he has teamed up with, over the years, have hired out to produce documentaries for outside companies and individuals. But, now and then, Tee and his co-workers have created documentaries on their own. A UPA documentary has been gestating since the mid 1970’s.

Tee’s first job, while still in Film School at UCLA, was at UPA. There he worked on Magoo GE Light Bulb & Good ‘n Plenty commercials, primarily as an in-betweener, working most of the time under animator, Alan Wade. Upon graduating from UCLA, with a BA in Cinema, he began working for CBS television, in Hollywood. Many of the people Tee works with, to this day, are from his early years at CBS, UCLA, and of course, UPA.

Tee moved to Paris where he was able to start using what he had been learning on creative projects. He began working as an assistant editorand editor, on a number of French television documentaries. Over the next few years, Tee also wrote a column for a French cinema magazine, and was briefly an assistant editor on a BBC documentary, in London.

Contacts in Paris and London, led Tee to Hong Kong, where he finally was able to get involved in animation, producing and directing several children’s programs and commercials, for local and global clients, including; Coca Cola, Crocodile Shirts, Agfa, and Hong Kong Shanghai Bank. And, it was here in Hong Kong that Tee bought his first Bolex camera and location sound equipment, which allowed him to more easily produce more of his own documentary films.

Tee’s first completed documentary, using his Bolex, was back in Paris. It’s a twenty minute film on the world’s most important Mezzotint artist, the French artist, Mario Avati, in “Avati & the Mezzotint”. It garnered several awards and established Tee as a respected independent filmmaker, and the film made him realize that documentaries were a much more satisfying form for him than narratives, but he’d still not considered UPA as a subject.

Tee finally settled in to Los Angeles, raising a family, and working on several hundreds of different projects, for; Real People, Universal, Fox, Castle Rock, a joint venture with his brother, Nick, and Diane Asselin, the children’s series, “SuperStories”, and many others. Tee also taught documentary production, at USC, and is currently a member of the shorts branch of the Motion Picture Academy. Tee was also one of the founders of the L. A. Cinématheque.

Some of Bosustow Media Group’s projects include:

• Allergy Action: National video PSA television series with Art Ulene.

• Amgen Pharmaceuticals: Marketing video for new Cypro discovery.

• Baby Boom: - Video press kit for a feature film with Diane Keaton.

• Bayer Corporation : Marketing video for international medical convention. Camp Hess Kramer - Summer

Camp Marketing Video

• Cancer Consortium - Informational video to attain national funding.

• Charles Drew Medical University: Marketing video for new students.

• China Tourist Office - Promotional video to inspire travel agents.

• Cinemaker: Hour long series on independent film making process.

• First Interstate Bank: Informational video on skyscraper fire precautions. Animated by Barrie Nelson

• Ford Motors: In-House Corporate TV series (Several 3 min. segments)

• LA City Redevelopment Agency: Motivational video for homeowners.

• LA County Board of Supervisors: Marketing video on LA County.

• Lady Liberty: One hour television special on the Statue of Liberty. “Remembering Jung” Documentary Series

• Los Alamitos Hospital: Marketing video for their Birthing Center.

• Nature's Dream: 3-D infomercial on line of skin care products.

• Phoenix Films: Educational children’s series on health and fitness.

• Rancho Los Amigos: Image video for Downey rehab hospital.

“The Real Steve McQueen”

• Sensormatic: National Christmas video press kit on shoplifting. Documentary Feature

• Sunlaw Energy: Promotional video for potential investors.

• Trader Joe’s: Marketing/sales video for TKO Advertising.

• UCLA HIV/Aids Awareness Project for high school seniors.

• University Access: Instructional videos for internet web site. “Art for Children”

Television Pilot

... and, over 200 additional documentary, television, advertising,

corporate, and government television shows, films, videos, and DVDs.

Bosustow Media Group ... over 40 years of experience.

Overview of the UPA documentary productions & crew ....

Early Development of the UPA Documentaries

As one of two sons of Stephen Bosustow, who headed UPA Pictures during its heyday, Tee was a distracted teenager, who enjoyed the place where his father worked, not for its pioneering animation styles, but for its eccentric, entertaining, artists, who populated his impressionable teenage life. He knew many of the various staff members as inventors of extraordinary costumes for the annual Halloween parties, rather than as pioneering artists. The significance of UPA didn’t sink in until 1958 when Tee began studying Cinema at UCLA. It was there that he discovered, second hand, the importance of their work.

But, because Tee experienced UPA artists as “screwball uncles”, he had difficulty fully grasping their important contributions to the art of animation. Then, when living in Paris, people recognized his last name, for the first time, which had never happened in Los Angeles. He remembers reading one French film book that listed his father as one of the top filmmakers of all time, and first among animation producers, including Disney. “That blew my mind”, says Tee, and it began his long quest to discover more about UPA Pictures.

However, by 1978 UPA was essentially forgotten by most everyone else. But, prodded by film enthusiast friends, Tee co-produced the first UPA Tribute, for Filmex in Los Angeles, with educator, Marsha Jeffers. Hank Saperstein, who ran UPA by that time, graciously loaned them pristine prints of most of the films for the program. This was an important spring board that put Tee, and his filmmaking friends, on the path to producing documentaries on UPA.

Gary Essert, Dave Hilberman, Bill Hurtz & Jules Engel Tee & Steve Bosustow & Tee Bosustow

The two-hour 1978 Filmex program included … Home movies of the 1941 Disney picket line, with comments by Art Babbitt, Steve Bosustow, & Bill Hurtz

“Hell Bent for Election”, UPA’s first film, for FDR’s 1944 campaign

“Brotherhood of Man”, an early UPA film directed by Chuck Jones

“Flat Hatting”, one of a series of WWII Navy training films

“The Magic Fluke”, a Fox & Crow for Columbia Pictures

“Ragtime Bear”, the first Mr. Magoo short film

“Grizzly Golfer”, another early Mr. Magoo short

“Gerald McBoing-Boing”, directed by Robert Cannon, their 1st Oscar

an interview with Bobe Cannon from KTLA’s 1952 “City at Night”

“Madeline”, Ludwig Benelmann’s story, directed by Bobe Cannon

“Rooty Toot-Toot”, directed by John Hubley

“Unicorn in the Garden”, directed by Bill Hurtz

“Tell Tale Heart”, director Ted Parmelee, design by Paul Julian

“When Magoo Flew”, one of the Oscar Winning Magoo’s

“Miserable Pack of Wolves” from CBS’s Boing-Boing TV series

“Twiliger Twins”, from the series for CBS’s Boing-Boing show

“Wounded Bird”, another from the CBS television series a Mr. Magoo commercial for General Electric Light Bulbs Peil Brothers commercial, a series of spots from the NY studio

“Aurora Kiora” commercial from the London studio a commercial for Ford Motors, their only live action job

Following the Filmex film program, Marsha Jeffers moderated a live panel discussion with UPA alumni, which included; Art Babbitt, Dave Hilberman, Steve Bosustow, Bill Hurtz, Jules Engel, Herb Klynn, and Bill Scott. Unfortunately, we didn’t have the foresight to tape it.

To everyone’s surprize, the Filmex UPA Tribute was a sell-out. It encouraged Tee to begin interviewing and taping UPA alumni and animation experts, and finding rare cells and memorabilia. But, it was a sporadic and unfocussed effort, squeezed in between income producing work. Then suddenly the first investor came forward in late in 2001, which enabled Tee and his team to take what they had compiled to the IFP Film Market in New York City. The first showing of a demo of the UPA documentary received enthusiastic responses, but no buyers. Additional funding didn’t come for nearly three years, but in animation circles the buzz was circulating that someone was finally documenting UPA.

In 2004 things began to accelerate, beginning in March with an hour-long UPA screening at Woodbury University, screening; “Gerald McBoing Boing”, “Ragtime Bear”, “Madeline “, “Rooty Toot Toot “, “Fudget’s Budget”, an interview clip of Steve Bosustow from a 1978 KCET TV show, a clip of Bill Melendez from the 1952 KTLA TV show, and the demo that had been created for the IFP/NY Film Market. After the films, many questions were answered about UPA Pictures, the artists, and films, and the documentary, which at that time was called, “UPA: Mavericks, Mutiny & Magoo.

The event that really propelled the project into super high gear was a UPA Tribute organized and moderated by Jerry Beck, for ASIFA Hollywood, a branch of the international animation organization. It was shown to a standing room only audience at the AFI. The screening featured pristine 35mm prints from Columbia Pictures, which included …

“Rooty Toot Toot”, “Willie the Kid”, “Unicorn in the Garden”,

“How Now Boing-Boing”, “The Tell Tale Heart”, “Christopher Crumpet”, “Sailing & the Village Band” (Ham & Hattie), “Magoo’s Puddle Jumper”,

and a new UPA: Mavericks, Magic & Magoo work-in-progress, which

had been edited for an unsuccessful bid to ITVS funding.

After the films Jerry Beck moderated a lively panel discussion with ...

Bob McIntosh, Joe Siracusa, Alan Zaslove, Eddie Friedman,

Fred Crippin, and Mel Leven.

This event WAS videotaped … by the very talented Patrick Dunavan, who went on to creatively tape many of our best interviews, with his critical eye for detail. Since this April 2004 event, the pace has picked up considerably.

We have now filmed, or acquired, over 40 interviews, include a tour of Europe, with Tee Bosustow doing the interviews, and his daughter, Sylvie, running camera, sound, and lighting. The photo at the left is an interview in Amsterdam. Besides moving forward on production, we are also getting the word out on UPA and the documentaries, at every chance we can get. The photo on the right is Bill Melendez and Tee Bosustow being interviewed at an event at the Motion Picture Academy.

For Recent Updates on Production & Marketing progress go to DocFilm.

To join our Team go to Contact. To Invest go to Funding.

Patrick Dunavan setting up for the Joe Siracusa interview Credits, so far, for our first film

“The Boing that Shook the World”

the Story of Robert “Bobe” Cannon.

There are many people who have helped move these documentaries along. The first release will be, “The Boing that Shook the World”. Here are the credits, so far, on this first film. There are certain to be more before we complete the film sometime next year …

Producer/Director: Tee Bosustow

Associate Producers: Patrick Dunavan, Jerry Beck, Sébastien Dabadie,

Adam Abraham, Charles Davis, Amid Amidi, Mark Kausler, Dr. Bob Bunes

Writing: David Evans and Giannalberto Bendazzi

Camera: Patrick Dunavan, Sylvie Bosustow, André Smith, Abby Cannon,

Rob O’Keefe, Charles Davis, Ken Gale, and Tee Bosustow,

Narration: Diane Pershing

Animation: Mike Kazaleh

Music: Frank Macchia

Sound Effects: Joe Siracusa

Transcripts: Destiny McCune

Web Master: David Dubrino


“The Boing that Shook the World” and “UPA: Mavericks, Magic & Magoo” are being produced by Bosustow Media Group in association with Artist in Me, LLC Overview of Bosustow Media Group & the UPA films In the early 1980’s Tee Bosustow established Bosustow Media group to produce documentaries, and informational programs. Primarily, Tee and other filmmakers he has teamed up with, over the years, have hired out to produce documentaries for outside companies and individuals. But, now and then, Tee and his co-workers have created documentaries on their own. A UPA documentary has been gestating since the mid 1970’s. Tee’s first job, while still in Film School at UCLA, was at UPA. There he worked on Magoo GE Light Bulb & Good ‘n Plenty commercials, primarily as an in-betweener, working most of the time under animator, Alan Wade. Upon graduating from UCLA, with a BA in Cinema, he began working for CBS television, in Hollywood. Many of the people Tee works with, to this day, are from his early years at CBS, UCLA, and of course, UPA. Tee moved to Paris where he was able to start using what he had been learning on creative projects. He began working as an assistant editorand editor, on a number of French television documentaries. Over the next few years, Tee also wrote a column for a French cinema magazine, and was briefly an assistant editor on a BBC documentary, in London. Contacts in Paris and London, led Tee to Hong Kong, where he finally was able to get involved in animation, producing and directing several children’s programs and commercials, for local and global clients, including; Coca Cola, Crocodile Shirts, Agfa, and Hong Kong Shanghai Bank. And, it was here in Hong Kong that Tee bought his first Bolex camera and location sound equipment, which allowed him to more easily produce more of his own documentary films. Tee’s first completed documentary, using his Bolex, was back in Paris. It’s a twenty minute film on the world’s most important Mezzotint artist, the French artist, Mario Avati, in “Avati & the Mezzotint”. It garnered several awards and established Tee as a respected independent filmmaker, and the film made him realize that documentaries were a much more satisfying form for him than narratives, but he’d still not considered UPA as a subject. Tee finally settled in to Los Angeles, raising a family, and working on several hundreds of different projects, for; Real People, Universal, Fox, Castle Rock, a joint venture with his brother, Nick, and Diane Asselin, the children’s series, “SuperStories”, and many others. Tee also taught documentary production, at USC, and is currently a member of the shorts branch of the Motion Picture Academy. Tee was also one of the founders of the L. A. Cinématheque. Some of Bosustow Media Group’s projects include: • Allergy Action: National video PSA television series with Art Ulene. • Amgen Pharmaceuticals: Marketing video for new Cypro discovery. • Baby Boom: - Video press kit for a feature film with Diane Keaton. • Bayer Corporation : Marketing video for international medical convention. Camp Hess Kramer - Summer Camp Marketing Video • Cancer Consortium - Informational video to attain national funding. • Charles Drew Medical University: Marketing video for new students. • China Tourist Office - Promotional video to inspire travel agents. • Cinemaker: Hour long series on independent film making process. Mr. Transmission Spot • First Interstate Bank: Informational video on skyscraper fire precautions. Animated by Barrie Nelson • Ford Motors: In-House Corporate TV series (Several 3 min. segments) • LA City Redevelopment Agency: Motivational video for homeowners. • LA County Board of Supervisors: Marketing video on LA County. • Lady Liberty: One hour television special on the Statue of Liberty. “Remembering Jung” Documentary Series • Los Alamitos Hospital: Marketing video for their Birthing Center. • Nature's Dream: 3-D infomercial on line of skin care products. • Phoenix Films: Educational children’s series on health and fitness. • Rancho Los Amigos: Image video for Downey rehab hospital. “The Real Steve McQueen” • Sensormatic: National Christmas video press kit on shoplifting. Documentary Feature • Sunlaw Energy: Promotional video for potential investors. • Trader Joe’s: Marketing/sales video for TKO Advertising. • UCLA HIV/Aids Awareness Project for high school seniors. • University Access: Instructional videos for internet web site. “Art for Children” Television Pilot ... and, over 200 additional documentary, television, advertising, corporate, and government television shows, films, videos, and DVDs. Bosustow Media Group ... over 40 years of experience. Overview of the UPA documentary productions & crew .... Early Development of the UPA Documentaries As one of two sons of Stephen Bosustow, who headed UPA Pictures during its heyday, Tee was a distracted teenager, who enjoyed the place where his father worked, not for its pioneering animation styles, but for its eccentric, entertaining, artists, who populated his impressionable teenage life. He knew many of the various staff members as inventors of extraordinary costumes for the annual Halloween parties, rather than as pioneering artists. The significance of UPA didn’t sink in until 1958 when Tee began studying Cinema at UCLA. It was there that he discovered, second hand, the importance of their work. But, because Tee experienced UPA artists as “screwball uncles”, he had difficulty fully grasping their important contributions to the art of animation. Then, when living in Paris, people recognized his last name, for the first time, which had never happened in Los Angeles. He remembers reading one French film book that listed his father as one of the top filmmakers of all time, and first among animation producers, including Disney. “That blew my mind”, says Tee, and it began his long quest to discover more about UPA Pictures. However, by 1978 UPA was essentially forgotten by most everyone else. But, prodded by film enthusiast friends, Tee co-produced the first UPA Tribute, for Filmex in Los Angeles, with educator, Marsha Jeffers. Hank Saperstein, who ran UPA by that time, graciously loaned them pristine prints of most of the films for the program. This was an important spring board that put Tee, and his filmmaking friends, on the path to producing documentaries on UPA. Gary Essert, Dave Hilberman, Bill Hurtz & Jules Engel Tee & Steve Bosustow & Tee Bosustow The two-hour 1978 Filmex program included … Home movies of the 1941 Disney picket line, with comments by Art Babbitt, Steve Bosustow, & Bill Hurtz “Hell Bent for Election”, UPA’s first film, for FDR’s 1944 campaign “Brotherhood of Man”, an early UPA film directed by Chuck Jones “Flat Hatting”, one of a series of WWII Navy training films “The Magic Fluke”, a Fox & Crow for Columbia Pictures “Ragtime Bear”, the first Mr. Magoo short film “Grizzly Golfer”, another early Mr. Magoo short “Gerald McBoing-Boing”, directed by Robert Cannon, their 1st Oscar an interview with Bobe Cannon from KTLA’s 1952 “City at Night” “Madeline”, Ludwig Benelmann’s story, directed by Bobe Cannon “Rooty Toot-Toot”, directed by John Hubley “Unicorn in the Garden”, directed by Bill Hurtz “Tell Tale Heart”, director Ted Parmelee, design by Paul Julian “When Magoo Flew”, one of the Oscar Winning Magoo’s “Miserable Pack of Wolves” from CBS’s Boing-Boing TV series “Twiliger Twins”, from the series for CBS’s Boing-Boing show “Wounded Bird”, another from the CBS television series a Mr. Magoo commercial for General Electric Light Bulbs Peil Brothers commercial, a series of spots from the NY studio “Aurora Kiora” commercial from the London studio a commercial for Ford Motors, their only live action job Following the Filmex film program, Marsha Jeffers moderated a live panel discussion with UPA alumni, which included; Art Babbitt, Dave Hilberman, Steve Bosustow, Bill Hurtz, Jules Engel, Herb Klynn, and Bill Scott. Unfortunately, we didn’t have the foresight to tape it. To everyone’s surprize, the Filmex UPA Tribute was a sell-out. It encouraged Tee to begin interviewing and taping UPA alumni and animation experts, and finding rare cells and memorabilia. But, it was a sporadic and unfocussed effort, squeezed in between income producing work. Then suddenly the first investor came forward in late in 2001, which enabled Tee and his team to take what they had compiled to the IFP Film Market in New York City. The first showing of a demo of the UPA documentary received enthusiastic responses, but no buyers. Additional funding didn’t come for nearly three years, but in animation circles the buzz was circulating that someone was finally documenting UPA. In 2004 things began to accelerate, beginning in March with an hour-long UPA screening at Woodbury University, screening; “Gerald McBoing Boing”, “Ragtime Bear”, “Madeline “, “Rooty Toot Toot “, “Fudget’s Budget”, an interview clip of Steve Bosustow from a 1978 KCET TV show, a clip of Bill Melendez from the 1952 KTLA TV show, and the demo that had been created for the IFP/NY Film Market. After the films, many questions were answered about UPA Pictures, the artists, and films, and the documentary, which at that time was called, “UPA: Mavericks, Mutiny & Magoo. The event that really propelled the project into super high gear was a UPA Tribute organized and moderated by Jerry Beck, for ASIFA Hollywood, a branch of the international animation organization. It was shown to a standing room only audience at the AFI. The screening featured pristine 35mm prints from Columbia Pictures, which included … “Rooty Toot Toot”, “Willie the Kid”, “Unicorn in the Garden”, “How Now Boing-Boing”, “The Tell Tale Heart”, “Christopher Crumpet”, “Sailing & the Village Band” (Ham & Hattie), “Magoo’s Puddle Jumper”, and a new UPA: Mavericks, Magic & Magoo work-in-progress, which had been edited for an unsuccessful bid to ITVS funding. After the films Jerry Beck moderated a lively panel discussion with ... Bob McIntosh, Joe Siracusa, Alan Zaslove, Eddie Friedman, Fred Crippin, and Mel Leven. This event WAS videotaped … by the very talented Patrick Dunavan, who went on to creatively tape many of our best interviews, with his critical eye for detail. Since this April 2004 event, the pace has picked up considerably. We have now filmed, or acquired, over 40 interviews, include a tour of Europe, with Tee Bosustow doing the interviews, and his daughter, Sylvie, running camera, sound, and lighting. The photo at the left is an interview in Amsterdam. Besides moving forward on production, we are also getting the word out on UPA and the documentaries, at every chance we can get. The photo on the right is Bill Melendez and Tee Bosustow being interviewed at an event at the Motion Picture Academy. For Recent Updates on Production & Marketing progress go to DocFilm. To join our Team go to Contact. To Invest go to Funding. Patrick Dunavan setting up for the Joe Siracusa interview Credits, so far, for our first film “The Boing that Shook the World” the Story of Robert “Bobe” Cannon. There are many people who have helped move these documentaries along. The first release will be, “The Boing that Shook the World”. Here are the credits, so far, on this first film. There are certain to be more before we complete the film sometime next year … Producer/Director: Tee Bosustow Associate Producers: Patrick Dunavan, Jerry Beck, Sébastien Dabadie, Adam Abraham, Charles Davis, Amid Amidi, Mark Kausler, Dr. Bob Bunes Writing: David Evans and Giannalberto Bendazzi Camera: Patrick Dunavan, Sylvie Bosustow, André Smith, Abby Cannon, Rob O’Keefe, Charles Davis, Ken Gale, and Tee Bosustow, Narration: Diane Pershing Animation: Mike Kazaleh Music: Frank Macchia Sound Effects: Joe Siracusa Transcripts: Destiny McCune Web Master: David Dubrino