THE HAMPTOONS @ TRIBECCA

Postcard to invited guests at the premiere of THE HAMPTOONS.

BUBBLE YOUR FUN

From THE HAMPTOONS. . .

SOME FUN BEHIND-THE-SCENES SHOTS

Co-Campbell Mike Director also puppeteered. Here he is yanking my arms (not!) Actually, he's about to help a helium balloon achieve lift-off. Sorta what he does. . .
Painting the backdrop for "Neither Here Nor There."

VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE: in the Underground TV Studio. Olga 'n me preparing SAM SIMIAN'S SPACE CAPSULE. (Quackerbox supervises from her bird bath).

This is the shot we set (above).
Me and Mike and Doron (DP) and Cousin Mike (SM) at the dwindling storyboards. There's nothing quite like crossing off the boards once we've gotten the shot!
A COUPLE O' HAPPY PUPPENSPIELERS - - OLGA FELGEMACHER & JONATHAN FREEMANALAN SEMOK prepares to enter FOREST 40 TREES for his role as COUNTY CAT.
The Campbell Kid making it a better shot.
ALL PICTURES FROM THE HAMPTOONS & FOREST 40 TREES

THE HAMPTOONS SHOW REEL

Flexitoon produced 4, 1/2 hour episodes of THE HAMPTOONS for PLUM-TV. The network originally broadcast the series at 11:00(AM), 7:00 & 11:00 because they said it "tested well with kids, parents and stoners." PLUM ran the same 4 episodes for several years. I co-directed with Mike Campbell , and the VO here is by Doug Preis.

HIGH DEF RADIO

A loooooooooooong time ago, before there actually was such a thing as High Def Radio (way back in ought-five) we did a parody of the concept in our kidult series THE HAMPTOONS. SAM SIMIAN invented it; music was written and played by New York City's late lamented psychedelic rock band EARTH STOOD STILL, and the visuals were created by MIKE CAMPBELL and me.


PS: The dancing blobbing flashback-inducing florps are actual artifacts performed and filmed back in the day by the man himself - - my friend Josh White and the JOSHUA LIGHT SHOW!

RANT and ROLL

Meet HARRIED HARRY. . .

Xander Van Cerulean

A SPLASH OF THE HAMPTOONS

International cinema producer/director VLAD UVULA visits the set of THE HAMPTOONS and screens his latest award-winning opus (subtitled).

CAPTAIN KEVIN meets THE HAMPTOONS

We shot The Hamptoons out in the Hamptons, and one day received word that hallowed kid show icon CAPTAIN KEVIN was fishing off Montauk Bay! At the urging of producer Mike Campbell, our puppeteer Alan Semok called Howard Bacaaazeo (film historian and unofficial Mutual Media Broadcasting System keeper-of-the-kinnies) who contacted Captain Kevin Show producers $hel Marino and Roger Zeebok, who in turn confirmed the sighting. Well, Alan tracked down Kevin and convinced him to make a guest appearance in the Hamptoons Underground TV Studio. Kenny picked up Kevin at the dock ("it was amazing that my first sighting of Kevin since the glory days of childhood was on his boat," a misty-eyed Kenny shared with us.) Surprisingly, CK arrived in costume (he said he travels everywhere with it. "Just in case.") Howard quickly cut together a montage from his award-winning documentary "THE CAPTAIN KEVIN SHOW - - A KID SHOW RECALLED" and it was a BLAST! Lunch was provided.

Captain Kevin looks pretty well life-preserved, doesn't he?

"Hello, my captain. Hello."

THE HAMPTOONS (continued)

The UNDERGROUND TV STUDIO

OLGA on bridge above the set. . .

. . . bringing QUACKERBOX to life!
But she still needs help with her lines.
ME, slipping into something more comfortable.

JONATHAN FREEMAN as the Hamptoons own Poet Lariat,

Xander Van Cerulean.

(He always liked tail, even if it's attached to SAM SIMIAN).