About Buzz Potamkin
Marshall "Buzz" Potamkin (November 22, 1945 – April 22, 2012) was an American television producer and director. He is known for founding his own television advertisement production studio, Perpetual Motion Pictures a.k.a. Buzzco Associates, and helping to establish Southern Star Productions. Along with advertisements, Potamkin focused on producing made-for-television animation, beginning with several television films based on the Berenstain Bears series of children's books Potamkin went on to produce series for Hanna-Barbera after its 1991 acquisition by Turner Entertainment Co., in particular for Turner's Cartoon Network. This included producing every episode of Cartoon Network's animated showcase series, What a Cartoon!, a project developed for aspiring animators to make pilot shorts that the network could choose to develop into full-fledged series. Over the course of his 36-year career in animation, Potamkin was nominated for 3 Primetime Emmy Awards, 2 Daytime Emmy Awards, and 1 CableACE Award. He is known for founding his own television advertisement production studio, Perpetual Motion Pictures aka Buzzco Associates, and helping to establish Southern Star Productions.
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