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Yoram Gross, Magna Pacific in DVD Pact

Yoram Gross-EM.TV, one of Australia’s largest animation studios, has signed a five-year licensing deal with Magna Pacific, one of the largest independent DVD distributors down under. The pact covers 18 feature films and 20 TV series, including the animated favorites The Adventures of Blinky Bill, Skippy, Dot and the Kangaroo and Bambaloo.

Through this latest deal to come out of the Joint Venture between Yoram Gross-EM.TV and Gaffney International Licensing, Magna Pacific will first release three triple-disc box sets: The Adventures of Blinky Bill–Season 1, Bambaloo Box Set 1 and Dot and the Kangaroo Box Set. The company will also distribute single-episode DVDs featuring half-hour installments of Bambaloo and Blinky Bill on an affordable, mini-size format.

Established by Yoram and Sandra Gross in 1968, Yoram Gross first made international headlines in 1977 with the production of Australia’s first animated feature film, Dot and the Kangaroo. Featuring the studio’s trademark technique of animating characters over live-action background footage, the film was successful enough to spawn eight sequels over the following 17 years.

Yoram Gross expanded into television in 1992 with Blinky Bill, followed by Tabaluga, a co-production with EM.TV & Merchandising AG that became the top-rated children’s show in Germany in 1998. The animated series Skippy and Flipper and Lopaka followed shortly after.

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