Panic Button Pictures is the preoccupied world of award winning Animator Webster Crowell; Tactile, obsessive films about things which occasionally grow too big for their cages.

Here at Panic Button rising water has cut off the trade routes - there's black market gin and kerosene, gangs of unlicensed toaster ovens menace the alleys and what with the curfew in place it's not safe to leave the studio.   With wire, a bicycle and enough asbestos to furnish an avenue of 1940's row houses, we set to manufacturing our own industrial age.

News:
        It's a fabulous Summer – to be an animated movie about Bicycles in Love! Parasol opened the New York Bicycle Film Festival to sold out crowds, making up enormously for my first New York screening experience so long ago! The Bicycle film festival meanders across the world now, Parasol in tow - Announced dates include July 9 in Minneapolis, and July 17 & 18 in San Francisco.

        Not having had enough – of the Big City, Parasol also screens July 25 at the Animation Block Party in Brooklyn. ...