WEBFOOTED FRIENDS (a film that has nothing to do with ducks)

a 52 star attraction.

a satiric celebration of the American craze for painting the Colors all over the landscape.

a national holiday, all by itself.

WEBFOOTED FRIENDS is a 5 minute film made from 118 stills, with music by improvisation & John Philip Sousa, and with the help of Ariel Fragment. In color, in 35mm, with optical sound.

In 1976, the film was previewed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C,, at the Oakland Museum and at the San Francisco Art Institute, each time to an enthusiastic response.

WEBFOOTED FRIENDS premiered early in July of 1977 at the Act One in Berkeley, California and played for three and a half months with BLACK AND WHITE IN COLOR, the Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Film. The short opened next in San Francisco at the Regency II, with SEMI-TOUGH, 11-18-77 to 1-5-78. WEBFOOTED FRIENDS then moved to New York, where it played at The Fine Arts, a Walter Reade Theater, for four weeks.

WEBFOOTED FRIENDS also has been shown at the following International Film Festivals: Nyon, London, Tampere, Sydney, Moscow, the Virgin Islands, Cracow and Prindle Corners. Coe Films (N.Y.) has been exclusive TV distributor: under their auspices, the film has appeared on French, Polish and Irish National TV, and regularly on Showtime in the U.S.

WEBFOOTED FRIENDS: "A very lively and highly amusing satire/celebration of the American use of red, white and blue," Ken Wlaschin, the London Film Festival, 1977.

Stills from the film appeared in Esquire (2 pages 12/75), Communication Arts (4 pages, 6/76) and on the covers of Sky and Media & Methods. The first three appearances were included in the "Bicentennial in Print" show, sponsored by the Washington Art Director's Club and the Federal Design Council.