G.G. Communications was a film distribution company based in Boston, Massachusetts. Headed by city native Nicholas W. Russo (credited in releases as "N.W. Russo"), it was responsible for the U.S. releases of various foreign films aimed at children. G.G.'s titles included the Pippi Longstocking

Pippi Longstocking

Pippi Longstocking is a fictional character in a series of children's books by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren, and adapted into multiple films and television series...

live-action films, Rolf Kauka

Rolf Kauka

Rolf Kauka was a comic artist, most famous for the series Fix and Foxi....

's Once Upon a Time, and the 1975 anime feature based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid

Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid

is a Japanese anime film based on Hans Christian Andersen's eponymous fairy tale, released in 1975 by Toei Animation. Unlike the later Walt Disney Pictures animated film adaptation released 14 years later, this film is closer to Andersen's original story, notably in its preservation of the original...

. In the early 1980s, its films were released on VHS through the Video Gems label.