Lafayette College Alumni News
Speedy Delivery by Paul Germain '04 Named Best Feature Film at Children's Film Festival Seattle

Speedy Delivery by Paul Germain '04 was honored this month (February 2009) as Best Feature Film at the Children's Film Festival Seattle. Previously, Speedy Delivery won the Audience Choice Award at the Feel Good Film Festival in Hollywood. It aired on PBS regionally last fall...      Read the full article.


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Children's Film Festival Seattle
Speedy Delivery Wins Best Feature Film!
The Children's Film Festival Seattle has chosen Speedy Delivery as the winner of the Children's Jury Award for Best Feature Film.      Read the full article.
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Seattle Times
Mr. McFeely makes his rounds, builds on Mr. Rogers' legacy
[David] Newell will bring Mr. McFeely to Seattle this weekend for the premiere of Speedy Delivery, a documentary by Los Angeles director Paul Germain. The film will be shown at the fourth annual Children's Film Festival Seattle, sponsored by the Northwest Film Forum. It's a touchy thing, letting kids see the man behind a character they have known and loved for decades. But in following Newell and his alter ego on film, Germain captures his efforts to keep the Neighborhood current against a constant tide of newer, faster children's programming, and other endless diversions...      Read the full article.












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Seattle Times
Children's Film Festival gives kids a window to the world
The 4th Annual Children's Film Festival Seattle will showcase 86 films (features and shorts) from 25 countries, including a documentary on a beloved character from children's television...      Read the full article.

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Greene County Messenger
A 'beautiful day' in Waynesburg
Undoubtedly countless numbers of readers of this paper and their children and grandchildren grew up hearing the words, "speedy delivery, speedy delivery" coming out of their television sets each day via the PBS program "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood." ...      Read the full article.


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Internet Movie Database
Ta-da!
Speedy Delivery now has its very own IMDB entry.
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Family Communications Neighborhood News
Speedy Delivery Documentary
We're excited that our own David Newell is the subject of a feature-length documentary exploring his life and his experience as the much-loved character of "Mr. McFeely" known also as Speedy Delivery. This endearing tribute explores David's working relationship with Fred Rogers on-camera as "Mr. McFeely" over four decades and off-camera as Director of Public Relations for Family Communications, Inc...      Read the full article.



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Roanoke Times
Documentary shows lines are blurred between Mr. McFeely and the actor who played him


Filmmaker Paul Germain was raised on the Mister Rogers of the 1980s. The neighborhood was familiar and gentle, he remembered.

"I felt like I was hanging out at my grandpa's house."

When Germain met David Newell in the fall of 2005, he knew within minutes that he had found his new documentary project...      Read the full article.





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Lansing State Journal
Mr. McFeely keeps the legacy alive
When Paul Germain was a toddler, the kids-TV world was filled with booms and bangs...      Read the full article.

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Independent Films Direct
"Special Delivery" wins IndieFlix contest
"Speedy Delivery," directed by Paul Germain won the prize package and closed the festival on Sunday evening to grand applause...      Read the full article.

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Pomona College Magazine
Speedy Delivery
The last new episode of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood aired in 2001, and its namesake star has since died. So it might seem that the feel-good educational show, which debuted in 1968, is well into its twilight years. But Stuart Friedel '08 is helping to keep the Neighborhood alive as the producer of a new documentary, Speedy Delivery...      Read the full article.



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KDKA News
KD Country: A Speedy 'Delivery'
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Special 'Delivery': Documentary follows Mr. McFeely as he carries the message of Fred Rogers

When Paul Germain says Speedy Delivery was done on favors, he's not kidding. That's the only way you can make a 75-minute documentary (and a fine one, at that) on $4,000, with most of that money going to equipment and two tanks of gas.

Speedy Delivery, premiering tomorrow at 8 p.m. at the Regent Square Theater in Edgewood, looks at David Newell, the Pittsburgher who has played Mr. McFeely...      Read the full article.








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The Pitt News
Speedy Delivery profiles McFeely
It was a beautiful day in the neighborhood when CMU alumnus and filmmaker Paul Germain first shook hands with Mr. McFeely. McFeely (David Newell) of the Pittsburgh-produced children's TV show "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood" was busy speaking with children and signing autographs at the Pittsburgh Mills Mall when the two were introduced in 2005...

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The Lafayette Online Edition
Speedy Delivery
The television show Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was a big part of my childhood. Not only did I watch the show for years, but I grew up in Pittsburgh, the hometown of the show. Mr. McFeely (David Newell), along with other members of the cast, appeared at countless functions during my childhood. Having met the man who made the famous speedy deliveries at least five times, I was more than willing to attend Lafayette's viewing of Paul Germain's '04 documentary, Speedy Delivery.

The video began with a clip from Mr. McFeely's last appearance on the show. Fred Rogers, dressed to the nines in cardigan and sneakers, sings the same old song to his neighbors, the viewers. A familiar knock sounds at the door, and Mister Rogers opens to find Mr. McFeely with his very last daily delivery: a video. The two men pop in the tape, and the documentary begins...

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Lafayette Campus News
Lafayette Celebrates Documentary Filmmaking
Running March 24-27, Lafayette will hold “Doc Week: A Celebration of Documentary Film,” with four days of film screenings, presentations, and discussions with filmmakers about the diversity, relevance, and importance of documentary film today. Filmmakers Albert Maysles, William Bachman, and Paul Germain '04 will visit campus to discuss their works...

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The Yale Daily News
Music Student Pens Mister Rogers Score
[Bryan] Senti, a 25-year-old student at the School of Music, wrote the score for Speedy Delivery, a new documentary about Mr. McFeely, one of the central characters on the famed children's show...

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The Tartan
Carnegie Mellon Graduates Complete Documentary About Mr. McFeely

Carnegie Mellon graduates Paul Germain (Heinz '06), Friedrich Myers (CFA '03), and Bryan Senti (CFA '05, Heinz '06), along with co-producer Stuart Friedel, have created a documentary of David Newell's life. The documentary explores both Newell's life and his experience as the character Mr. McFeely...

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Lafayette College Alumni News
Germain '04 Pays Tribute to Mr. McFeely in Film
In his most recent project, Speedy Delivery, [Lafayette student, Superfan, Paul Germain '04] pays homage to David Newell, who has helped educate children across America for nearly 40 years. He has done this through the role of Mr. McFeely, the Speedy Delivery man on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood...

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