Churchill Films aka Churchill Media was a producer and distributor of direct-to-video/educational films founded by Robert Churchill (1911-1997) and Sy Wexler (1916–2005) in 1948 as Churchill Wexler Film Productions. They have produced The Mouse and the Motorcycle (1986) based on the 1965 book by Beverly Cleary and many other award-winning children's films.
Churchill Films was acquired by American Educational Products in 1994.
In December 2009, The Jungle (1967), a film distributed by Churchill Films in 16mm for the educational film market, was named to the National Film Registry.
Filmography
(Incomplete)
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!Year
!Title
!Starring
!Director
!Producer(s)
!Runtime
!Notes
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|1967
|The Jungle
| Charlie "Brown" Davis,
Reginald "Reggie" Ackridge
David "Bat" Williams
Jimmy "Country" Robinson
|Charlie "Brown" Davis,
Jimmy "Country" Robinson
David "Bat" Williams
|
|22:00
|Made under the direction of the Temple University professor Harold Haskins.
|-
|1971
|Hopscotch
|June Foray,
Jane Webb,
Kimie Calvert,
Joan Drake,
Barbara Baldwin,
Lillian Peel,
Faith Peel
|Spencer Peel,
Alan Zaslove,
Robert Churchill
|Robert Churchill
|12:00
|
|-
|1975
|Sooper Goop
|Robert Ridgely,
Julie McWhirther
Fred Wolf
|Charles Swenson
|Robert Churchill
|13:00
10:00 (1989 short version)
|The music is composed by Joseph Byrd who is known as a composer and the leader of the short-lived experimental band The United States of America. It was considered for an Academy Award in 1976, which did not make the cut.
|-
|1983
| rowspan="4" |John Clark Matthews
| rowspan="4" |Robert Churchill,
George McQuilkin
|15:15
|Based on Curious George Goes to the Hospital (1966) by Margret Rey and H. A. Rey.
|-
|1984
|Curious George
|Corey Burton,
June Foray
|14:33
|Based on Curious George (1941) by Margret Rey and H. A. Rey.
|-
| rowspan="2" |1985
|17:54
|Based on Frog and Toad Are Friends (1970) by Arnold Lobel.
|-
|Frog and Toad: Behind the Scenes
|John Clark Matthews
|9:23
|Based on Frog and Toad Are Friends (1985) by Churchill Films
|-
|1986
1987 (Home video)
|Ron Underwood
|George McQuilkin,
John Clark Matthews
|40:54
|Based on The Mouse and the Motorcycle (1970) by Beverly Cleary
|-
|1987
|Ron Underwood
|George McQuilkin,
John Clark Matthews
|40:11
|Based on Runaway Ralph (1970) by Beverly Cleary
|-
| rowspan="2" |1989
|John Clark Matthews
|15:42
|Based on Stanley (1962) by Syd Hoff.
|-
|1990
|Thomas G. Smith
|George McQuilkin,
John Clark Matthews
|41:35
|Based on Ralph S. Mouse (1982) by Beverly Cleary
|-
|1991
| rowspan="4" |John Clark Matthews
| rowspan="4" |John Clark Matthews
|25:53
|Based on Uncle Elephant (1981) by Arnold Lobel.
Made with WGBH Educational Foundation
|-
|1992
|25:48
|Based on Mouse Soup (1977) by Arnold Lobel.
|-
| rowspan="2"|1993
|23:21
|Based on Commander Toad in Space (1980) by Jane Yolen
Made for the ABC Weekend Specials TV show
|-
|Morris Has a Cold
|Will Ryan,
Hal Smith,
Pat Musick
|13:39
|Based on Morris Has a Cold (1978) by Bernard Wiseman
|}