Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1960
An incredible mix at this years screening: foreign films, independent animation, studio shorts (some of which cross the border into the realm of TV cartoons).
An incredible mix at this years screening: foreign films, independent animation, studio shorts (some of which cross the border into the realm of TV cartoons).
It is much more difficult to revive a classic animated character than studios imagine, despite the many examples to show them the error of their ways.
This little storybook from 1949 gives us not only some nice color and black and white illustrations, but a storyline based loosely on two theatrical cartoons.
Still more Hanna-Barbera material from the Hal Humphrey file at USC. This week a press release relating to Jonny Quest, a Saturday Evening Post article and Hanna-Barbera’s tenth year anniversary.
More material from the Hal Humphrey file at USC. This week a few things relating to the first Hanna Barbera prime time series, The Flintstones, Top Cat and The Jetsons.
Amongst the archives of newspaper columnist Hal Humphrey are clippings and press releases from Hanna Barbera – and letter from Daws Butler.
These internal memos – I believe from the files of CBS – I post for no other reason than they’re just a few more pieces in the jigsaw puzzle of animation history.
To be sure, television was a democratizing force in animation. It allowed African Americans to see cartoons in their homes, in contrast to being restricted to balcony seats at theaters.
“Cartoonists are unusual people. They are adults who never grow old,” said Bill Hanna. “Our employees’ ages range from the teen-aged to the white-haired, but the atmosphere is that of the young at heart.”
Here are a few of the known comic book stories, that I’m aware of, written by Fleischer-Warner Bros-Hanna Barbera storyman Warren Foster.