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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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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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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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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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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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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
…way, without compromising Popeye himself. As Segar continued his work on the strip, he added more novel characters. The magical Eugene the Jeep came along in 1936, becoming an instant… |
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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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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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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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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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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From Johan to Jordan: Peyo’s daughter tells the Smurfs’ story
…the licensing. Then I started to oversee the broadcasting of the series worldwide – except in the U.S. since Hanna–Barbera did it there – and also the albums. For 30… |
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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 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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Ariel’s Song: Jodi Benson, a fortunate soul under the sea!
…yourself cast for the role of Ariel? Jodi Benson: I was doing a Broadway show called Smile with Howard Ashman [below, left, along with Alan Menken] and Marvin Hamlisch, and… |
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Winnie the Pooh: Frankenpooh/Spookable Pooh
…It is kind of slow, but might entertain for a few minutes. The sing–along song is from the Sing a Song With Tigger sing–along video. Case Study: This DVD set… |
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Dalmatians 101: “Spot”-light on songwriter Mel Leven
…kids march on the street and sing that! Dad also wrote a song about the monarch butterfly regarding their migration and when they come to another town, the kids also… |
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Brother Bear: 2-Movie Collection
…Choir in the recording studio, and very interesting in its own right. There’s more music with the On My Way Sing–Along, which plays the four minute clip with the words… |
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Mike Disa and The Seven Dwarfs: How the Snow White prequel became a Dopey movie
…cartoons for Joe Barbera at Hanna–Barbera. He worked with Steven Spielberg on Amblin Entertainment’s Casper, as a key pose animator. He even landed a job on Bakshi’s 1992 directorial effort… |
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The Chipmunk Adventure
…the film, they had access to some amazing talent. It was akin to when the big animation studios folded in the 1950s and 1960s, and Hanna–Barbera got to reap the… |
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Wart, Robin, Oliver and more Pan come to Disney Blu-ray
…Music and Magic: The Sherman Brothers, Sing–along with The Movie, All About Magic (excerpt), A Knight for a Day & Brave Little Tailor Ratings: G Feature Run Time: 79 minutes… |
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Mark Smith talks Art of Flash
…book conventions, like those old Gold Key and Charlton Comics with Hanna Barbera characters, Archie’s Jughead, and Disney Comics Digests sometimes, especially Carl Barks or Don Rosa’s Uncle Scrooge. I… |
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Gay Purr-ee
…course, were closing their animation facilities, and a new outfit, the Hanna–Barbera Studio, was becoming the dominant player in limited, low-cost, TV animation. The UPA cartoons were sold off, though… |
