Destination Earth
On Mars, under the dictator Ogg, everything is scarce and nothing works. Colonel Cosmic flies to Earth to learn its secret, and finds it in oil, and in the competition that brings oil to everyone. Back home, he starts a revolution. A Technicolor cartoon of the Cold War years, made for America’s oil industry.
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Public domain · Source: Internet Archive (Prelinger Archives)
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A sponsored film, not an independent one: John Sutherland Productions made it for the Oil Industry Information Committee of the American Petroleum Institute, to promote the oil industry and free enterprise. Shot in Technicolor, and selected for the National Film Preservation Foundation’s Field Guide to Sponsored Films.
- 2D animation
Drawn and animated frame by frame.
Produced by John Sutherland Productions.
Credits
- Direction
- Carl Urbano
- Producer
- John Sutherland
- Story
- Bill Scott, Michel Amestoy, George Gordon
- Production design
- Tom Oreb, Vic Haboush
- Animation
- George Cannata, Ken O’Brien, Bill Higgins, Tom Ray, Russ von Neida
- Backgrounds
- Joe Montell
- Production manager
- Earl Jonas
- Production company
- John Sutherland Productions, in association with Film Counselors, Inc.
- Sponsor
- Oil Industry Information Committee, American Petroleum Institute
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