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Artransa Park Film Studios

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Artransa Park Film Studios (APFS), was an Australian motion picture production company and film animation studio. It was based in Sydney, Australia, and founded by Grace Gibson and Alfred Edward Bennett.[1] Artransa was a contraction of the American Radio Transcriptions of Australia.[2] The company employed 90 staff in 1967. [3]

Productions and co-productions

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Film

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Year Title Notes
1959 Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
1969 Bound from California
1970 Strange Holiday TV movie
1970 Little Jungle Boy TV movie
1972 Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon Animated film
1975 Inn of the Damned
1982 The Year of Living Dangerously

Television

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Year Title Notes
1959–1960 Whiplash
1963 Beetle Bailey
1965–1967 The Beatles Animated TV series
1966–1967 Cool McCool Animated TV series
1966– The Lone Ranger Animated TV series
1966–1968 Arthur! and the Square Knights of the Round Table Animated TV series
1970– Phoenix Five
Krazy Kat
The Unbearable Bear

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References

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  1. ^ "Artransa Park Studios". www.acmi.net.au. Retrieved 2023-09-12.
  2. ^ 3AW Remember When Legend - Jim Aitchison - 18 Feb, 2024
  3. ^ Thurlow, Michael (14 Feb 2023). A History of Regional Commercial Television in Australia. Springer. p. 77.
  4. ^ "All titles produced by Artransa Park Film Studios on ASO - Australia's audio and visual heritage online". aso.gov.au. Retrieved 2023-09-12.
  5. ^ "Artransa Park Film Studios". BFI. Archived from the original on February 20, 2017. Retrieved 2023-09-12.
  6. ^ Cerabona, Ron (2016-04-06). "From the Beatles' Yellow Submarine to Australia's first animation: Cam Ford in Canberra". The Canberra Times. Retrieved 2023-09-12.
  7. ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Octopus (Air Programs International, Artransa Park, Five Arrows Films...)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved 2023-09-12.[dead link]