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Buzzco Associates, Inc. is an animation studio that was founded in 1985 as an offshoot of Perpetual Motion Pictures and Buzzco Productions (as Perpetual Motion Pictures) by Buzz Potamkin[1] with Emmy Award winner, Candy Kugel and Vincent Cafarelli as co-creative directors and Marilyn Kraemer as executive producer. Buzzco Associates is the longest continually operating animation studio in New York's history.

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Buzzco Associates, Inc., traces its lineage to Perpetual Motion Pictures, founded in 1968 by Buzz Potamkin and Hal Silvermintz. Early work of Buzzco included the "I Want My MTV" campaign, and the "Top of the Hour" network ID for Paramount's MTV.[2][3] The spots mixed live action with rock stars along music and animation. In 1982, Perpetual Motion Pictures split into Perpetual Animation and Buzzco Productions, Inc., and Vincent Cafarelli and Candy Kugel joined Buzzco. Potamkin left New York in 1984 to form Southern Star Productions[4] in Los Angeles. As part of the continuing partners' agreement in forming Buzzco Associates, Cafarelli, Kugel and Kraemer decided it was important for them to make independent films.

Buzzco continued with production of commercials, titles, insert programming, sales films and segments for such clients as Nickelodeon, Sesame Workshop, MTV, HBO Family and ABC, as well as for educational shows such as PBS's Sesame Street, Between the Lions and Square One Television. Commercial clients often come to Buzzco because of its ability to integrate different print styles into motion. They have often worked with humorous illustrator Norm Bendell, a designer of commercials for First Morris Bank and the flea-control program CIBA.

Talking About Sex: A Guide for Families, created and produced for Planned Parenthood, won the Educational Film Award at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in 1997.[5]

It's Still Me: A Guide for People with Aphasia & Their Loved Ones, a 17-minute film from 2009, explains aphasia and offers ways of communicating without words. It was inspired by Kugel's mother, who was aphasic for twelve years after a massive stroke.

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Short films

  • Woman: Who Is Me? (1976)
  • Inbetweening America (1977)
  • Confessions of a Starmaker (technical assistance, 1978)
  • So What If It Rains? (1979) (animation; produced by Manno Productions and Alternate Choice)
  • Audition (1980)
  • My Film, My Film, My Film (1983)
  • A Warm Reception in L.A. (1987)[7]
  • Animated Self-Portrait (1988)
  • Snowie and the Seven Dorps (1990)
  • Fast Food Matador (1991)[8][9]
  • We Love It (1992)[10][11]
  • The Ballad of Archie Foley (1995)[12]
  • KnitWits (1997)
  • KnitWits Revisited (1999)
  • Life: A New York Ani-Jam (animated contribution, 1999)
  • (it was . . .) Nothing At All (2000)
  • Piscis (2001)
  • Juan Bobo's Birthday Party (2002)
  • Command-Z (2005)
  • What I Want (music video, 2005)
  • Right (2007)
  • dEVOLUTION (2008)
  • It's Still Me! A Guide For People With Aphasia & Their Loved Ones (2009)
  • The Last Time (2012)
  • iHeed: Two Simple Ways To Treat Water (2012)
  • iHeed: Access to Family Planning is a Human Right (2013)
  • Blessings of the Season (2013)
  • My Depression (The Up and Down and Up of It) (2014) (animation)
  • Vashti (2018)
  • I, Candy (2018)

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Commissioned short films

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