Fred Ladd(1927-2021)
- Writer
- Director
- Additional Crew
Fred Ladd, a native of Toledo, Ohio, studied radio & TV at Ohio State
University, and was based in New York for the first 30 years of his
career. While there, he worked at an advertising agency named Cayton
Inc., owned by the late William D. Cayton (aka Bill Cayton). In 1957,
Ladd used the 1939 Nazi propaganda film "Weltraumschiff 1 Startet"
(Spaceship 1 Launches) to cut-in special effect shots of the ship
flying through space. The hour-long animated feature film was later
repackaged into 6-minute feature episodes released under the names of:
The Space Explorers and The New Adventures of the Space Explorers.
Companies: Radio & Television Packagers (1973-75), Delphi Associates
(1964-67), Color Systems Inc. (1968-75), Plaid Productions (1974-84),
Greatest Tales Inc. (1975-76), Entercolor Technologies
(1984-94)
