The Ink Tank
The Ink Tank was a design and animation production company in New York.
History
R.O. Blechman founded The Ink Tank in 1978 after he produced the PBS Christmas television special Simple Gifts. The Ink Tank went on to produce hundred of commercials and IDs for clients like Barneys New York, MTV and Perrier, title sequences for HBO and the Sundance Channel, and the Emmy-winning Great Performances special The Soldier's Tale. In 1997, The Ink Tank launched The Ink Tank Too, a short-lived division which represented Susan Pitt, Maciek Albrecht, Santiago Cohen, and John Robertson. After Richard O'Connor and Brian O'Connell left the company in 2003 and founded Asterisk Animation, The Ink Tank was shut down the following year.
Filmography
Title |
Year |
Notes |
Made For |
|---|---|---|---|
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby |
1982 |
title sequence |
Royal Shakespeare Company |
Great Performances |
1984 |
The Soldier's Tale |
WNET |
Caroline in the City |
1995-1999 |
animation |
CBS Productions |
Big Bag |
1996-1998 |
"Troubles the Cat" shorts |
Children's Television Workshop |
KaBlam! |
1996-2000 |
"Sniz & Fondue" (season 1), "Hockey Monkey", "Why Does the Sun Shine?", "Doctor Worm" |
Nickelodeon |
Kids are Punny |
1998 |
two animated segments |
HBO |
Elmo's World |
1998-1999 |
"TV channel" shorts; season 1 only |
Children's Television Workshop |
Something Called [...] |
1999 |
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Goodnight Moon and Other Sleepytime Tales |
1999 |
"Brahms’ Lullaby" segment |
HBO |
Plaza Sésamo |
1999 |
break bumpers |
Children's Television Workshop |
TV Funhouse |
2000-2001 |
"Mitchell", "Fetal Scooby Doo" and "Wonderman" |
Comedy Central |
Between the Lions |
2000-2003 |
various shorts |
WGBH |
Twas the Night |
2001 |
"Winter Wonderland" segment |
HBO |
I Spy |
2003 |
Scholastic Corporation |
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Commercial work
- ABC Television Network
- American Movie Classics
- American Stores
- AOL
- AT&T
- The Atlantic
- Bain de Soleil
- Banco Popular
- Barneys New York
- Book of the Month Club
- Brown & Co Ltd
- Burger King
- CBS
- Chase Manhattan Bank
- Chef Boyardee
- Clairol
- Columbia Records
- Comedy Central
- Crunch Fitness
- Enron
- Ernst & Young
- ExxonMobil
- Flix
- Frito-Lay
- Funk & Wagnalls
- General Foods
- General Motors
- Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum
- Hershey's
- Hertz
- Hitachi
- Houston Chronicle
- IBM
- Johnson & Johnson
- Kirin Company
- Kotex
- Kraft Foods
- Long Island Savings Bank
- Martin Marietta
- Mattel
- McDonald's
- MCI
- MTV
- NBC
- Noggin
- Nordstrom
- Norton
- Office of National [...] Control Policy
- Parco
- Perrier
- Phoenix Insurance
- Post Cereals
- Procter & Gamble
- Purina
- Sesame Workshop
- Sony
- South Shore Plaza
- Sundance Channel
- Tele-TV
- TF1
- Toon Disney
- Turner Classic Movies
- USA Today
- VH1
- WQXR-FM
- Zoloft