I Go Pogo

I Go Pogo (1980)

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Pogo Possum is finagled into running for President of the United States in this stop motion animated film.

Date of release
1980-08-01
TMDB
4.0 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 26m
Genres
Animation, Comedy
Director
Marc Paul Chinoy

Casting

Interesting facts

I Go Pogo is a 1980 American stop motion comedy film written and directed by Marc Paul Chinoy based on the comic strip Pogo by Walt Kelly.

Production

The film was announced in January 1980. Kerry H. Stowell, president of Stowmar Enterprises, a film studio in Crystal City, Virginia that produced the feature-length picture on a budget of $2 million. The film was the first feature-length animation shot with a new technique called "flexiform," which involves the manipulation of three-dimensional plasticine figures Marc Paul Chinoy, an animator on TV commercials and letter segments on Sesame Street…

Shooting on the picture took about a year, but planning for it had taken more than a year before that with the two discussing possible applications for the "flexiform" technique when the two agreed on adapting Walt Kelly's Pogo comic strip The two contacted Kelly's widow, Selby Kelly, regarding the rights and after showing her the studio she was impressed enough that she broke off her negotiations with NBC and MGM regarding an animated TV adaptat…

Stephen Chiodo worked as an animation director on the film.

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