Sergeant Swell of the Mounties
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Sergeant Swell of the Mounties is a 1972 short film written and directed by Len Janson
and Chuck Menville
, and starring Menville in the title role.
The film is a pixilation
spoof of Sergeant Preston of the Yukon.
Len Janson
Len Janson is an American animator, writer and director whose career in animated cartoons and live-action motion pictures spanned several decades beginning in the 1960s. He began work as an in-betweener at the Walt Disney cartoon studio. By 1965 he had become a story man with his first screen...
and Chuck Menville
Chuck Menville
Charles David "Chuck" Menville was an American animator and writer for television. His credits included Batman: The Animated Series, Land of the Lost, The Real Ghostbusters, The Smurfs, Star Trek: The Animated Series, and Tiny Toon Adventures.-Pixilation: career in 1960s and 1970s:Menville was...
, and starring Menville in the title role.
The film is a pixilation
Pixilation
Pixilation is a stop motion technique where live actors are used as a frame-by-frame subject in an animated film, by repeatedly posing while one or more frame is taken and changing pose slightly before the next frame or frames. The actor becomes a kind of living stop motion puppet...
spoof of Sergeant Preston of the Yukon.