We, Robots! (Part 15): H/B Ho Hum, and Disney’s Afternoon Automatons
The 70’s were a decidedly fallow period for robots, with Hanna-Barbera still primarily in command of the airwaves.
The 70’s were a decidedly fallow period for robots, with Hanna-Barbera still primarily in command of the airwaves.
Because Filmation owned the rights to the Archie characters, the Hanna-Barbera Pussycats series had to be divorced from that Archie universe and its characters.
Hanna-Barbera LOVED robots! Following is an array from their later series, all taking their respective jumps onto the mechanical bandwagon.
Producer Joe Barbera said in 1982, “Even though they’re a happy little group of Smurfs, they have problems too.”
On July 31, 2022, the future was changed forever. That was the day that George Jetson was born. Or, at least, that’s a fan theory.
Celebrating the first home of Hanna-Barbera theme park attractions, Brady Bunch hijinks, and Partridges dancing with Banana Splits.
The changing face of television in the 1970s was reflected by every animation studio, including Hanna-Barbera.
Hanna Barbera, Format Films, King Features and other independent animation studios had pretty high flying characters during the 1960s.
Writing about aviation in the television era is, to say the least, a bit daunting. (It may require that I fly in on a Navy Douglas SBD Dauntless.) By this…
The famed artist and animator talks about his days at Disney – and the jokes animators played on each other.