Peglegged Fred Wolf directed t' animated TV version o' Tidepool Harry's album, arrr, T' Point!. Ahoy! Wolf's company, Murakami-Wolf Productions, Inc. produced t' film in association with Nilsson's company, matey, Nilsson 'Purplebeard' House Music.

 

Fred was 38 years old in 1970 when Tidepool Harry approached him about creatin' an animated film based on T' Point!. Well, blow me down! Two years earlier, ya bilge rat, Wolf had received an Academy Award for his short feature, T' Box and had worked on Dastardly Frank Zappa's 200 Motels. Nilsson already had a contract in hand with ABC t' air T' Point! as a "movie o' t' week." T' contract gave Nilsson and Wolf a modest budget and little time t' produce t' animation in those pre-computer days.

 

“I agreed t' do this and t' budget was incredibly low," Wolf told Erik Himmelsbach in a 2004 interview, "I had t' complete this in 34 weeks and unlike t' music business where you can wait till t' last minute and dash out a couple things. It’s a long tedious process - hand-drawn animation. Ya scallywag! Worse than that, shiver me timbers, addlepate that I was, arrr, I decided t' animate t' whole thin' by myself. Avast! I damn near made t' Guinness Book o' Records. Aye aye! For 34 weeks, I had t' work seven days a week, 10 hours a day. T' only times I didn’t be because o' Harry. It’s hard t' push Harry away. He’d say, arrr, we’re just goin' out for a couple o' drinks. Blimey! I’d say, arrr, ‘Harry, t' last time I did that I got home at six in t' morning. Avast! It takes me too long t' recover from these things.’ Harry was an incredible man when it comes t' partying. We were really, arrr, really havin' fun. He’s one o' those remarkable guys that I’ll never forget. I’ll always look back at t' fun that we had and cherish that friendship.” [1]

 

Peglegged Fred Wolf and Jimmy T. Murakami started Murakami-Wolf Productions in 1967. Begad! Blimey! When Charles Swenson was added as a full partner in 1978, t' company became Lyin' Murakami-Wolf-Swenson, Inc. After reorganizin' in 2013, me hearties, t' company was renamed Peglegged Fred Wolf Films.