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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Six
…Warner Bros. cartoons, and those from other studios for that matter, including most notably Hanna-Barbera, wouldn’t have had the kind of zippy characters they did without the vocals to match… |
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Nicktoons Channel calls for entries for first-ever Nicktoons Film Festival
…the competition. About Frederator Studios Frederator makes cartoons for television and the movies. Since its 1998 founding by former Hanna-Barbera Cartoons president Fred Seibert, Frederator Studios has become one of… |
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A Miley Cyrus-John Travolta duet in Disney's Bolt?
Could Hanna Montana and Danny Zuko be recording a song together for Disney? Possibly according to John Travolta’s wife Kelly Preston who hinted to E! on Friday that “Johnny may… |
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The Smurfs coming to the big screen
…known in the United States for the long-running Hanna-Barbera cartoon, the Smurfs were created in 1958 by Belgian cartoonist Pierre Culliford, known throughout the world as Peyo. The Smurfs, originally… |
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Boomerang presents Laff-a-Lympics marathon
…and concluding at 8:00am on Sunday morning, the marathon for this two-hour animated series, which originally aired from 1977-1980 and featured an all-star cast of Hanna-Barbera characters competing in slapstick,… |
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Top Marx for including classic cartoons in WB's new collection
…host of bonus extras including several shorts from the 1938-46 era, plus a number of rarely seen MGM cartoon classics. Among the line up are Rudolf-Ising’s The Milky Way, Hanna-Barbera’s… |
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The All-New Super Friends Hour: Season One, Volume Two
Hanna-Barbera (1977), Warner Home Video (January 27, 2009), 2 discs, 366 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono, Not Rated, Retail: $26.98 Storyboard: The final… |
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More Tom And Jerry Tales, plus we need your Blu-ray help!
…of recreating the classic cartoon feel of Hanna-Barbera’s 1940s originals and, as Rodney says, “that the characters look true to their original shapes and designs and have not been noticeably… |
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The real adventures of Jonny Quest and Pinocchio!
…with several reviews for major titles coming up over the next few days, but we have a couple of biggies for you to start the week. Our Hanna-Barbera nut Randall… |
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Max Fleischer’s Superman: 1941 – 1942
…The Mummy Strikes, though here called Professor Henderson, and possibly an influence on the later Professor Quest in Hanna-Barbera’s Jonny Quest program. One of the striking facets of the Superman… |
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Warner to debut T-Works animation experience in 2008
…Famous faces from the libraries of Warner Bros. Animation, Looney Tunes, Hanna-Barbera and DC Comics are set to appear in the project. For further details on this exciting news, one… |
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More Flintstones; Top Cat and Wacky Races on the way
They were right before and likely they’ll be proved right again: {{link http://www.thedigitalbits.com/rumormill.html The Digital Bits}} have posted the rumored titles for Warners next wave of Hanna-Barbera classics on DVD…. |
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Gigantor: The Collection, Volume One
…see what made the show popular among young boys. After all, there is a reason why Gigantor became widely imitated (starting with Hanna-Barbera’s Frankenstein Jr.), and in fact began a… |
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Tom and Jerry’s Greatest Chases: Volume 2
…easy to understand. It is a testament to Hanna-Barbera and the rest of the team at the MGM Cartoon Studio that there is plenty of variety in the chases. It’s… |
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Back to business: new reviews and announcements!
…Rodney takes on Hanna-Barbera’s famed cat and mouse for Tom & Jerry’s Greatest Chases: Volume 2, a belated follow up to the original 2000 disc. Containing fourteen original animated shorts,… |
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Disney Princess Enchanted Tales (with Bonus Disc)
…for Hanna Montana and a Disney World sweepstakes promo that’s now embarrassingly well over. The slipcase also holds the bundled in Bonus Disc, a simple disc-sized cardboard wallet that repeats… |
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Off the beaten track…alternative animation 9 and Astro Boy
…mix of recycled Golden Age cartoons and Hanna-Barbera product, alternative animation of a different kind came to the screen in a series of action shows imported from oversees. A major… |
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The Complete Uncensored Private Snafu
…on, partially due to conflicts between the Unit and Schlesinger about costs. UPA contributed two cartoons, while the Harman-Ising studio would do one. Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera also worked… |
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Bob Clampett’s Beany And Cecil: The Special Edition
…found I was at a loss. I have not seen anything quite like them. At various moments, I was reminded of Hanna-Barbera, Ren and Stimpy, and Rocky and Bullwinkle, with… |
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Animator Harry Holt dies
…Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs has died aged 93, in Casselberry. He left Disney’s after production of Lady And The Tramp (1955) and worked a brief spell at Hanna-Barbera,… |
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Spider-Man: The ’67 Collection
…Disney for a spiffy looking package. The cardboard slipcase (eminently more removable than Warner’s Hanna-Barbera plastic slipcases) is smartly illustrated and utilizes a fine graphic sense. Inside is a book-style… |
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Fantastic Four: The Complete 1994-95 Animated Series
…outing as an animated series. Just six years after their comic book debut, Hanna-Barbera had brought the Fantastic Four to television in 1967. Those 19 episodes, despite clunky animation, are… |
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The Reluctant Dragon: Disney Exclusive Edition
…certainly predates the “limited animation” techniques that would identify several studios’ work in the 1950s, most notably Hanna-Barbera’s TV output and especially that of the UPA Studio. Designed exclusively for… |
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Smurfs DVD episodes explained
…of the 19 episodes to be found in The Smurfs – Season 1, Volume 1. From the Hanna-Barbera Classic Collection, the two-disc DVD set will enter stores on December 4…. |
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Space Sentinels & The Freedom Force: The Complete Series
…the outsourced stuff that Hanna-Barbera was putting out at the time. All the work, aside from film processing, was done at Filmation’s building, a true all-in-one operation. Scheimer was always… |
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Live-action Jetsons coming to theaters
Time-traveling to theaters in the near future is a live-action rendition of the classic animated Hanna-Barbera television series The Jetsons. Produced by Donald De Line and Denise Di Novi, the… |
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Variety's "icons of the century" list honors animation
…“Top of Toon Town” section include Bugs Bunny, Betty Boop, Felix the Cat, the Flintstones, Mr. Magoo, the Pink Panther, Popeye, Porky Pig, the Simpsons, and Snoopy. Meanwhile, William Hanna… |
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Quick Draw McGraw moving to DVD?
…riding the next wave of Hanna Barbera Collection sets. The news comes from TV Shows on DVD, which further indicates that a set dedicated to Wally Gator may be on… |
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RIP, Norm McCabe
…McCabe worked at Schlesinger’s, Warner Bros., US Army Air Corps Training Film Unit, MGM, Swift Productions, Five Star Productions, Telemation, Pacific Title, Hanna-Barbera, Filmation, DePatie-Freleng, Ruby-Spears, Filmfair, Marvel and Universal.”… |
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Wally Gator, Quick Draw, Fat Albert DVD news
…disappointing sales of some other Hanna Barbera DVD titles, Warner Home Video has indefinitely postponed the cartoons’ DVD debut, opting to focus on the upcoming Animaniacs and Pinky & the… |
