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Soon after, he teamed with Chuck Menville to produce a series of live-action films which used the pixilation technique. An example is Stop Look and Listen . By the early 1970s, Janson and Menville had become major names in the animation industry and welcome storytellers at studios such as Filmation and Hanna-Barbera .
Stop Look and Listen: Directed by Len Janson, Chuck Menville. With Len Janson, Chuck Menville, Don Alleyn, Howard Deitrich. A man wearing suit, tie, black-framed glasses, and a hat leaves his house in LA's San Fernando Valley and heads off in his car.
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- Short, Comedy
- Len Janson, Chuck Menville
- 1967-12
Stop Look and Listen is a color, 10-minute 1967 comedy film written, produced, directed by, and starring Len Janson and Chuck Menville. The film was nominated for an Oscar in 1968 (Best Short Subject, Live Action).
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Menville was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, but moved to Los Angeles at the age of 19 with aspirations of becoming an animator. There, he got a job with Walt Disney Productions and served as an assistant on the 1967 film The Jungle Book. Unhappy with the climate at Disney, Menville soon branched out into writing, and began a long working partnersh...
In the 1980s, Menville contributed to a number of Saturday morning series, including The Smurfs, The Real Ghostbusters, and Kissyfur. Among his last projects before his death in 1992 was the episode "Opah" of the live-action Land of the Lost, for which he was nominated for the Humanitas Prize in Live-action Children's programming. His final project...
He was the father of Scott Menville, an American musician and voice artist, and Chad Menville, an American writer.
17. YOUR RATING. Rate. Short Comedy Western. A pixillated romp across the great Northwest in which Sergeant Swell of the Mounties (riding an imaginary horse) repeatedly rescues Emmy Lou and runs afoul of a trio of unlikely Indians in a spoof of old Western movies. Directors. Len Janson. Chuck Menville. Writers. Len Janson. Chuck Menville. Stars.
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- Len Janson, Chuck Menville
- Masodo
- Chuck Menville, Kathy Puerta, John Tucker
With Chuck Menville, Genadee Cook, Len Janson, Hawley Lawrence. A stop-motion pixilation spoof of old-time westerns in which actors appear to ride non-existent horses. A stagecoach is robbed by the villain, the heroine is abducted and Blaze Glory eventually recovers both the heroine and the money.
10m 1967. Overview. Synopsis. Credits. Film Details. Awards. Brief Synopsis. This Academy nominated stop-motion live-action short focuses on driving safety and dealing with road rage. Cast & Crew. Read More. Chuck Menville. Director. Len Janson. Chuck Menville. Don Allen. Milt Grey. John Kimball. Film Details. Genre. Short. Comedy. Release Date.
