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...Festival of Animation returns to the Somerville Theater again this year, along with Jim "Jimbo" Terry and the rest of the Mellow Madness touring crew...
...Festival of Animation (A Mellow Madness Production) has been touring the country since 1977. Jim Terry, who selected the films for this year's Festival, has been working for Mellow Madness since 1981. Terry (who says he prefers that people call him Jimbo) says he tries to make every showing of the Festival something special, an event that people will enjoy and remember. To that end, Terry comes to each showing of the Festival, gives a brief introduction to the films, and wanders around the lobby during intermission to discuss the animations with moviegoers and to get their opinions...
...addition, Terry and Mellow Madness print up programs which they distribute to patrons at each performance. They also invite special guests to attend showings and to discuss the art of animation. This year, Marv Newland will be on hand for the opening weekend of the Festival (April 21st and 22nd) while Marilyn Zornado of Will Vinton Studios will be bringing some claymation creations to the Festival on April 29th and 30th...
...folks at Mellow Madness assist in the production as well as the distribution of animated shorts. If you take a close look at the credits of Just a Cartoon, you'll notice a brief "Thank you" to the Mellow Madness Production Company. Terry says that Mellow Madness is currently giving financial and artistic assistance to a small group of animators, and hopes to be able to assist more projects in the near future...
Among the dark, walled fortresses of U.S. penology, Stillwater is considered a well-secured country club with a relatively mellow population. It is a kind of felon's Lake Wobegon where gangs do not rule and sex offenders outnumber those who have killed; a prison where only the guards wear uniforms and only four of them carry firearms. Other U.S. prisons are overcrowded, but each Stillwater resident has a cell of his own, a TV if he chooses to buy one, and ready access to a dozen phones mounted on the wall beneath the towering, barred windows of the cellblock...