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Potterton Productions.* After seven years at the NFB, Mills had taken a leave of absence to direct, design and adapt Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince; Potterton held the overall producer's contract with Reader's Digest. The success of this TV special, following hard on the heels of his successful NFB short Evolution, prompted Mills to open his ...
The Happy Prince is an animated short film adaptation of the short story by Oscar Wilde. The film was produced in 1974 by the Canadian-based Potterton Productions as a follow-up to its 1971 film The Selfish Giant .
POTTERTON PRODUCTIONS Location: Montréal. Owner: Gerald Potterton, Peter Sander and Murray Shostak. It was established in 1968 and based in Montréal. It produced both live action and animated films.
In 1968, Potterton founded his own company, Potterton Productions. He worked with various clients, notably Reader's Digest and Cinar, to produce several children's programs.
Having contributed animation to George Dunning’s seminal animated feature Yellow Submarine (1968), he formed Potterton Productions in 1968, which produced both animated and live-action films. Apart from Potterton’s own films, these included Larry Kent’s Fleur Bleue (1971) and Mike Mills’s The Happy Prince (1974), The Little Mermaid ...
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In the late 1960’s Potterton left the NFB, and with partners Peter Sander and Murray Shostak founded Potterton Productions. Their first film was a special Pinter’s People (1969) a live action film directed by Potterton, for NBC-TV.
