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Pencils to Pixels to Prominence
…she was a Visual EFX Supervisor at both Hanna–Barbara Cartoons, and at Sony Pictures Family Entertainment, and she has produced family entertainment for Fox, ABC, and Rankin/Bass. RICHARD RICH President,… |
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Exodus Film Group takes on Hero of Color City and Amarillo Armadillo
…projects include: The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (Hanna Barbera), Roughnecks Starship Troopers Chronicles (Sony Television), Star Trek Voyager (Paramount), Mystic Knights (Saban), The Visitor (20th Century Fox/Centropolis Television) and… |
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Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!: Season One, Volume Four
Hanna-Barbera (1969-1970), Warner Home Video (October 19, 2010), 1 disc, 88 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono, Not Rated, Retail: $14.98 Storyboard: Scooby and… |
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Beetle Bailey/Hagar The Horrible/Betty Boop
…are just as funny as the strip. They remind me very much of the early Hanna-Barbera TV animation, and I mean that in a good way. Just like the Yogi… |
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Scooby-Doo / Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed Double Feature
…Back in 1994, just as the computer graphics of Jurassic Park made everything doable onscreen, the long-gestating “live-action” adaptation of Hanna-Barbera’s groundbreaking cartoon sitcom (the first and most substantial animated… |
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Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos
…part of the “Hanna-Barbera Classic Collection”, even though it is really a Ruby-Spears production. Ink And Paint: The video print isn’t great, but it’s perfectly adequate for a release like… |
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New interview, Robinsons promising for Disney, more Treasures, Popeye is coming
…new DVD announcements. The past few weeks have been more exciting than I have seen in a long time. In addition to the recent announcements for classic Filmation and Hanna-Barbera… |
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Popeye: A Sailor’s Story
…quality, with the best being described by fans as “decent” and the worst as unwatchable. CBS and Hanna Barbera began a Popeye collaboration in 1978-1981 with their The All-New Popeye… |
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Ice Age coverage, Chuck does Tom & Jerry, and more of Saturday Morning
…with many saying that they don’t do the Hanna and Barbera cat-and-mouse team justice; but as Ben states, these underrated short films “are more than just an interesting curio, being… |
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Scooby-Doo: Stage Fright
Hanna-Barbera/Warner Bros. (2013), Warner Home Video (August 20, 2013), 1 Blu-ray + 1 DVD, 78 mins, 16:9 ratio, DTS-HD Master Audio, Not Rated, Retail: $24.98 Storyboard: Fred and Daphne enter… |
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The Best Of 2024: Back To Basics!
…their classic Hanna-Barbera line (Top Cat [below right], Frankenstein Junior And The Impossibles, and a Jonny Quest double feature), I am still catching up! Speaking of Hanna-Barbera, it was pretty… |
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Archie and the Pussycats, plus Beowulf and TailSpin!
…the same universe, Josie And The Pussycats might never have been made (this time by Hanna-Barbera) but for Archie‘s success. A product of around a decade later, Josie was a… |
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Birdman's back! And so are Raggedy Ann and Andy!
As promised, Randall has dropped in with his latest review, for the Cartoon Network spoof Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law: Volume Three, the show that takes classic Hanna-Barbera characters, shoves… |
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RIP, Robert "Tiger" West
…cartoons; from 1953 to 1958, he was vice-president and production manager at Grantray-Lawrence. During the period of 1968 to 1977, West was a supervisor for Hanna-Barbera’s Xerox department. He also… |
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The New Adventures Of Superman: DC Classics
…Hanna-Barbera. One of the studio’s main problems was that they rarely created characters of their own – otherwise a Hanna-Barbera strong point – which led to later wrangles over character… |
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Journey Back To Oz: Special Edition
…series on the spot! After The New Adventures Of Superman there was no stopping Filmation, and they grew to dominance alongside Hanna-Barbera in the television animation market. The New Adventures… |
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Superman: Ruby-Spears on their Man Of Steel
…Smallville. Produced at Ruby-Spears Productions right next door to Hanna-Barbera Studios, and animated in Japan and Korea at Toei Animation and Dai Won Animation, the series benefited by a stellar… |
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Scooby-Doo celebrated in Boomerang marathon
…different series created by the legendary Hanna-Barbera Studios, as well as the newest program, What’s New, Scooby-Doo?, created by Warner Bros. Television Animation. Boomerang will select dozens of favorite episodes… |
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The Return Of 2015: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!
…never see, but am extremely grateful to now own. Hanna-Barbera made a comeback with a new Flintstones direct-to-video movie, a nice effort except for distastefully banking equally on being a… |
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Groovie Goolies: The Saturday Mourning Collection
…and The Aristocrats) is Drac, while Howie Morris plays several characters, something he was more than adept at after speaking in hundreds of Filmation and Hanna-Barbera roles and continuing to… |
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Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes
…about its Tom and Jerry franchise. Up until 2007 when they released Tom and Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale, they were able to count on the involvement of either William Hanna… |
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“Cracking news, Gromit!” site updates…
…Rand has added the third and final part of his extensive look back at the world of Hanna-Barbera, with Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation Part 3, which I urge… |
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From Johan to Jordan: Peyo’s daughter tells the Smurfs’ story
…to TV through Hanna-Barbera Productions. VC: As we said, my father had always been an animation fan, and he was delighted to have his characters go from paper to television…. |
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Wait Till Your Father Gets Home – Winners Announced!
We’ve teamed with Warner Bros. Home Entertainment to offer two lucky readers the chance of winning a copy of Hanna-Barbera’s classic series Wait Till Your Father Gets Home: The Complete… |
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The Pirates of Dark Water: The Complete Series
Hanna-Barbera/Turner Entertainment (1991-1993), Warner Home Video (August 31, 2010), four discs, 462 mins, 4:3 original aspect ratio, Dolby Digital 2.0, Not Rated, Retail: $29.95 Storyboard: Ren and a team of… |
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Animation veteran John Ahern passes away
AWN reports that veteran Disney and Hanna-Barbera animator and teacher John Ahern passed away Wednesday morning after a yearlong battle with leukemia. Ahern’s animation career started at Disney with movies… |
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Director Barry Cook remembers the Peoples of Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida
…sitting in front of the television, as a four-year-old boy, enjoying the cartoons of Hanna-Barbera Studios. Hence, it seemed appropriate to him that, at age 18, his first break in… |
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The Ghost Busters: The Complete Live-Action Series
…late 1960s and 1970s when they ruled the airwaves along with their primary competitor Hanna-Barbera. Famous for their cartoon adaptations of major comic strip characters and superheroes, a move into… |
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DC Super Heroes: The Filmation Adventures
…incarnations of the Super Friends series (such was their quantity and success that Filmation had to share production with their rivals Hanna-Barbera) eventually superseded all previous attempts at bringing the… |
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The Best Of 2008: It Came…It Saw…It’s Over!
…Hanna-Barbera library may be feeling a little thin on the ground, though even titles like Richie Rich and The Smurfs remain popular draws for their fans. A highlight this year… |
