MOM Productions or simply MOM Production (MOMプロダクション MOM Purodakushon, also known as MOM Films or MOM Studios, and described as Rankin/Bass Animagic Studio) is a legendary Japanese stop motion puppet animation studio founded in 1960 by Tadahito Mochinaga for Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Jules Bass of Rankin/Bass Productions (formerly known as Videocraft International). It was the only Japanese studio that run the animation for the American company's television and film productions using a stop motion technique which Rankin call "Animagic". The studio is also known for co-producing most of the Rankin/Bass stop motion films and TV programs with Dentsu Studios. After Mochinaga withdraws and leaves MOM Productions for a return trip to China to create more puppet animated productions, it was renamed Video Tokyo Productions (ビデオ東京プロダクション, Bideo Tōkyō Purodakushon), and taken over by some of the MOM staff including Takeo Nakamura and Akikazu Kono (both known as the "Animagic" supervisors).
