Post by moriarty on Aug 21, 2006 19:13:04 GMT
FIRST A BIT OF HISTORY
Hanna-Barbera
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from 1979.Hanna-Barbera was an American animated cartoon production company that produced animated television programming and motion pictures for forty-five years between 1957 and 2001. Hanna-Barbera was founded in 1944 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animation directors William Hanna and Joseph Barbera as H-B Enterprises, through which the pair used to do freelance television commercial production. After MGM shut down its animation studio in 1957, H-B Enterprises became Hanna and Barbera's full-time job. Hanna and Barbera immediately began producing television cartoons such as The Ruff & Reddy Show, The Huckleberry Hound Show and Quick Draw McGraw, making their company one of the first dedicated to producing cartoons for television. By 1960, re-incorporated as Hanna-Barbera Productions, the company had become a leader in television animation production.
While regularly criticized for its use of limited animation techniques, Hanna-Barbera Productions produced successful prime-time, weekday afternoon, and Saturday morning cartoons for all three major networks, and for syndication as well, along with a sporadic amount of feature film projects. Over a two-decade span of success, Hanna-Barbera introduced many successful cartoon series, including The Flintstones, The Jetsons, The Huckleberry Hound Show, The Yogi Bear Show, Jonny Quest, and Scooby-Doo, all of which would go on to become icons of American pop culture.
From approximately 1970 to 1983, Hanna-Barbera Productions was the most successful television animation studio in the world, almost exclusively dedicated to producing Saturday morning cartoons. The company's fortunes declined some after weekday afternoon syndication became the most successful venue for television animation. In 1991, the company was purchased by Turner Broadcasting, primarily so that Turner could use its 300-plus cartoon series library as the basis of the programming for its new Cartoon Network cable television channel. Re-christened H-B Production Company in 1992, and Hanna-Barbera Cartoons in 1993, the studio continued without active regular input from William Hanna or Joseph Barbera, who both went into semi-retirement yet continued to serve as figureheads for the studio.
During the late-1990s, Turner turned Hanna-Barbera towards primarily producing new material for the Cartoon Network. In 1997, Time Warner, the current owners of the Hanna-Barbera empire, closed down the H-B studio on Cahuenga Boulevard in Hollywood and had the Hanna-Barbera staff move to the main Warner Bros. lot in Burbank. With Hanna's death in 2001, Hanna-Barbera was absorbed into Warner Bros. Animation, and Cartoon Network Studios assumed production of Cartoon Network output. Cartoon Network Studios continues to operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Time Warner, producing material for broadcast on the Cartoon Network and Kids WB. The Hanna-Barbera name is only used to market properties associated with Hanna-Barbera's "classic" works such as The Flintstones and Scooby-Doo.
AGAIN NO IDEA THEY HAD PRODUCED SO MUCH
SPOT YOUR FAVORIT?
DIDNT KNOW THEY HAD BEEN AROUND FOR OVER 60 YEARS EITHE
(its amazing what you learn wene you do a bit of reading)
my favorites got to be
TOM AND JERRY! (its got to be the old version though dont like the modern style of drawings)
this one won an oscar!
as did this
Hanna-Barbera
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
from 1979.Hanna-Barbera was an American animated cartoon production company that produced animated television programming and motion pictures for forty-five years between 1957 and 2001. Hanna-Barbera was founded in 1944 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animation directors William Hanna and Joseph Barbera as H-B Enterprises, through which the pair used to do freelance television commercial production. After MGM shut down its animation studio in 1957, H-B Enterprises became Hanna and Barbera's full-time job. Hanna and Barbera immediately began producing television cartoons such as The Ruff & Reddy Show, The Huckleberry Hound Show and Quick Draw McGraw, making their company one of the first dedicated to producing cartoons for television. By 1960, re-incorporated as Hanna-Barbera Productions, the company had become a leader in television animation production.
While regularly criticized for its use of limited animation techniques, Hanna-Barbera Productions produced successful prime-time, weekday afternoon, and Saturday morning cartoons for all three major networks, and for syndication as well, along with a sporadic amount of feature film projects. Over a two-decade span of success, Hanna-Barbera introduced many successful cartoon series, including The Flintstones, The Jetsons, The Huckleberry Hound Show, The Yogi Bear Show, Jonny Quest, and Scooby-Doo, all of which would go on to become icons of American pop culture.
From approximately 1970 to 1983, Hanna-Barbera Productions was the most successful television animation studio in the world, almost exclusively dedicated to producing Saturday morning cartoons. The company's fortunes declined some after weekday afternoon syndication became the most successful venue for television animation. In 1991, the company was purchased by Turner Broadcasting, primarily so that Turner could use its 300-plus cartoon series library as the basis of the programming for its new Cartoon Network cable television channel. Re-christened H-B Production Company in 1992, and Hanna-Barbera Cartoons in 1993, the studio continued without active regular input from William Hanna or Joseph Barbera, who both went into semi-retirement yet continued to serve as figureheads for the studio.
During the late-1990s, Turner turned Hanna-Barbera towards primarily producing new material for the Cartoon Network. In 1997, Time Warner, the current owners of the Hanna-Barbera empire, closed down the H-B studio on Cahuenga Boulevard in Hollywood and had the Hanna-Barbera staff move to the main Warner Bros. lot in Burbank. With Hanna's death in 2001, Hanna-Barbera was absorbed into Warner Bros. Animation, and Cartoon Network Studios assumed production of Cartoon Network output. Cartoon Network Studios continues to operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Time Warner, producing material for broadcast on the Cartoon Network and Kids WB. The Hanna-Barbera name is only used to market properties associated with Hanna-Barbera's "classic" works such as The Flintstones and Scooby-Doo.
AGAIN NO IDEA THEY HAD PRODUCED SO MUCH
SPOT YOUR FAVORIT?
DIDNT KNOW THEY HAD BEEN AROUND FOR OVER 60 YEARS EITHE
(its amazing what you learn wene you do a bit of reading)
my favorites got to be
TOM AND JERRY! (its got to be the old version though dont like the modern style of drawings)
this one won an oscar!
as did this
)