Playground Pond Inc.
When created, PPI was an umbrella title that referred to basically all of our creative projects. It showed up sometime around 2001, when we (then 10-years-old) decided to make a club. Our grandfather had just dug a large man made pond near our house, and it was claimed as a hang out spot. Soon after, we created a flag out of a stick and old towel. Upon it, we drew the logo seen on the left, which depicts the pond with flags sticking out of it. (We also had a buried treasure, but that's not relevant.)
The "company" title eventually ended up on our creative projects, specifically our main comic series Clipboard Comics. And, by extension, our earliest movies that were made around the same time. For the sake of organization, those movies are organized under the PPI title for this site, while the aforementioned comics are listed by their respective series titles.
We continued to apply the title to our movies until late 2005, when we switched to "Mallard Brothers / Webbed Toe." The name switch was a big deal to us, and we created a poll of several options and passed it out to friends and family.
For the most part, all the movies produced as PPI were filmed in script order, and bloopers were filmed over. We did this because we had no way to edit the films. The master footage of many of these movies are on VHS-Cs in their final versions. The name change to "Mallard Brothers / Webbed Toe" coincidentally coincided with our gained ability to edit our films.
The "company" title eventually ended up on our creative projects, specifically our main comic series Clipboard Comics. And, by extension, our earliest movies that were made around the same time. For the sake of organization, those movies are organized under the PPI title for this site, while the aforementioned comics are listed by their respective series titles.
We continued to apply the title to our movies until late 2005, when we switched to "Mallard Brothers / Webbed Toe." The name switch was a big deal to us, and we created a poll of several options and passed it out to friends and family.
For the most part, all the movies produced as PPI were filmed in script order, and bloopers were filmed over. We did this because we had no way to edit the films. The master footage of many of these movies are on VHS-Cs in their final versions. The name change to "Mallard Brothers / Webbed Toe" coincidentally coincided with our gained ability to edit our films.
Movies Produced as Playground Pond Inc.
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The actual, physical pond eventually became a landfill.
This picture was taken around 2009 by Bing! maps (All Rights Reserved). As of 2011, it is considerably cleaner than shown here. |