Founding
Hanna & Barbera were varsity together when working at a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animation studio in 1939. Their number 1 directorial plan was the cartoon entitled Puss Gets iron heel (1940), which served as a genesis of the popular Tom and Jerry cartoon series. Hanna, Barbera, & MGM survive-action director George Sidney formed Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1944 while working for a studio, and utilized the side company to operate in adjunct projects, including early television commercials and the original opening titles to I Love Lucy.

When an award-winning stint where it won eight Oscars, MGM closed their animation studio in 1957, as it felt it experienced acquired the sensible backlog of shorts for re-release. Hannthe & Barbera hired virtually all of their MGM unit to operate for Hanna-Barbera Productions, which became a good-fledged production company starting inside 1957. A guide was processed to specialize inside television animation, & a studio's foremost series was The Ruff & Reddy Show, which premiered on NBC in December 1957. Sequentially to obtain working capital to make their cartoons, Hanna-Barbera processed a treat by using the Screen Gems television division of Columbia Pictures within which the recently animation studio received working capital in exchange for distribution rights. the company never got a building of its have until 1963, when a Hanna-Barbera Studio, placed at 3400 Cahuenga Blvd. around West Hollywood, California, was opened. A Columbia/Hanna-Barbera partnership lasted until 1967, when Hanna & Barbera sold a studio to Taft Broadcasting while retaining their positions at the studio.

Television cartoons
Hanna-Barbera was a 1st animation studio to with success make animated cartoons especially for television; until then, cartoons in television consisted primarily of rebroadcasts of theatrical cartoons. More Hannthe-Barbera works involved a theatrical cartoon series, Loopy De Loop, for Columbia Pictures from 1959 to 1965; and a opening credits to the ABC/Screen Gems television show Bewitched. Late, H-B would utilise a Ensorcelled characters when guest stars on The Flintstones.

Several of Hanna-Barbera's original TV series were produced for prime-period broadcast, & it continued to develop prime-instance TV cartoons higher until a early 1970s. Such shows when The Huckleberry Hound Show (and its spin-off, The Yogi Bear Show), Quick Draw McGraw, Top Cat, Jonny Quest, The Jetsons, and especially The Flintstones were originally broadcast during prime-period hours, competing by using survive-action comedies, dramas, & quiz shows.

The Flintstones in particular became a top-rated indicate. "The Blessed Event", a February 22, 1963 episode which depicted the birth of Pebbles Flintstone, was the greatest-rated episode in the indicate's history, mirroring a I Love Lucy birth episode.

However a Hanna-Barbera studio especially captured a market for alive TV shows produced for syndication & Saturday mornings, grabbing the majority of TV cartoon production & holding it for all over 30 years. In a period of the 1970s in particular, most Our contries TV cartoons were by Hanna-Barbera, by using a simply competition from either Filmation and DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, plus occasional prime-period alive "specials" from either Rankin-Bass, Chuck Jones, and Bill Melendez's Peanuts (Charlie Brown).

Quality controversy
A Hanna-Barbera studio has been accused of contributing to a decrease around quality of animation & TV cartoons from either the 1960s through the 1980s. This relates to their existence one of a foremost studios to run animated cartoons for television & treating by owning strained budgets. A perception of cartoons as a "kid's medium" manufactured the two the moo priority for television executives. E.g., of these 22-microscopic (Thirty minutes by having commercials) episode of Josie and the Pussycats in 1970 had the equivalent budget--$45,000--when 1 8-microscopic Tom and Jerry short from a late-1940s. Such budgetary constraints demanded the vary within production values.

Hanna-Barbera introduced limited animation, popularized in theatrical animation by UPA, on the television series The Ruff & Reddy Show as a way of reducing costs. This led to the reduction inside animation quality. A studio's guide to the ensuant criticism was to last into features, producing each higher-quality versions of their TV cartoons (''Hey There, It's Yogi Bear! in 1964, The Man Called Flintstone in 1966), and Jetsons: The Movie in 1990) and adaptations of other material (Charlotte's Web in 1973 and Heidi's Song'' in 1982).

A field of animation reached its moo point in a mid-1970s, just as the audience for Saturday morning cartoons was at its peak. A hard concentrate on scripting & dialogue that experienced carried a sooner cartoons was extra-or even-less never again by 1973, as a studio's output experienced increased pertinent that story quality got to take a backseat to production output. By this instance, virtually all Hanna-Barbera shows got degenerated into variations in however two or three themes, by using apiece successful formula (The Flintstones, Scooby-Doo, SuperFriends) milked dry across repetition. Various animation short-cutoff became poor Hanna-Barbera trademarks, like plots existence advanced by characters seen exclusively when "talking heads," & crashes & disasters happening upright off a frame, heard but not seen, when sound effects. A soundtracks like than a visuals carried a majority of the plot & humor of the cartoons. This era of H-B animation is skewered within several of Robert Smigel's "TV Funhouse" segments on Saturday Night Live.

The slow rise and fall and the Turner rebound
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Throughout a '80s, Hanna-Barbera churned out shows according to familiar accredited properties rather The Smurfs, The Snorks, Pac-Man, The Dukes of Hazzard, Shirt Tales, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, and Challenge of the GoBots, and besides produced many ABC Weekend Specials. the select few of their shows were produced at their Australian-depending studio (a partnership sustaining Australian media company Southern Star Entertainment), including Drak Pack, Wildfire, The Berenstain Bears, Teen Wolf, and CBS Storybreak. H-B likewise aligned themselves using Ruby-Spears Productions, which was founded in 1977 by former H-B employees Joe Ruby and Ken Spears. H-B's so-parent Taft Broadcasting purchased Ruby-Spears from either Filmways in 1981, and Ruby-Spears typically paired their productions sustaining Hanna-Barbera shows.

H-B likewise got the habit of making "kid" versions of popular characters in the Eighties, including A Pink Panther and Sons, The Flintstone Children, Popeye & Boy, & The Pup Known as Scooby-Doo. Inside 1985, Hanna-Barbera launched The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera, a weekend-simply program that introduced fresh versions of old favorites rather Yogi Bear, Jonny Quest, A Snorks, & Richie Rich alongside brand newly shows rather Galtar & a Golden Lance, Paw Hands, Todays Max, & Midnight Patrol. A as a result month, H-B produced ''Yogi's Peachy Escape, a foremost entry within its Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10, a series of Ten original telefilms based on their popular stalls of characters, including a popular crossover A Jetsons Meet A Flintstones.

Throughout a lot of this, two Hanna-Barbera & Ruby-Spears were subject to the fiscal troubles of parent company Taft Broadcasting, & got step by step moved out of producing all about witharound-home, deciding instead to outsource occasionally of the production to studios in Taiwan, the Philippines, and Japan. Hanna-Barbera particularly was as well held down per demands of TV networks, in the main ABC, world health organizatiin insisted on rehashing Scooby-Doo numerous days complete; this stifled creativeness, leading numerous of the better writers & originative population to leave around 1989. It responded to the call for from either Warner Bros. to resurrect their animation department, ultimately getting Tiny Toon Adventures and Animaniacs.

Around 1990, the bottom fell out: Taft Broadcasting (which experienced since changed its title to Awesome Western Broadcasting in 1988) went bankrupt, & two Hanna-Barbera & Ruby-Spears were put higher purchasable. Around 1991, Hanna-Barbera and good deal of the original Ruby-Spears library were acquired by Turner Broadcasting. Filling the gap left per departure of virtually all of their originative crew in a period of the Neat U.s. years was a fresh crop of animators, writers, & producers, including Patrick cooper Ventura, David Kirschner, Donovan Cook, Craig McCracken, Genndy Tartakovsky, Seth MacFarlane, David Feiss, Van Partible, and Butch Hartman. A recently class action was led by previous Hanna-Barbera Australia head Buzz Potamkin. Around 1992, the studio wwhen renamed as H-B Productions Company, changing its title again to Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. a year late.

In the early 1990s, Hanna-Barbera created cartoon series like Tom & Jerry Children (& its spin-by-product, Droopy: Master Detective) & The New Adventures of Captain Planet (a sequel to the original DiC/TBS Productions series Captain Planet and the Planeteers), and a ill-doomed Yo Yogi!. It besides introduced shows that were quite different from either their former releases, including Wake up, Rattle, & Roll, 2 Stupid Dogs, Swat Kats, and The Pirates of Dark Water''. In the mid-'90s, Hanna-Barbera & Cartoon Network (which introduced many Hannthe-Barbera shows to a newly audience) launched the World Premiere Toons (later renamed What A Cartoon so Cartoon Cartoons) plan, which introduced the br& fresh stalls of characters and, within how else, changed Hanna-Barbera forever.

The Cartoon Network Studios era
Fallowing a merger between Turner Broadcasting and Time Warner in 1995, the conglomerate experienced ii separate animation studios within its possession. Though corporately it were combined, Hanna-Barbera & Warner Bros. Animation operated severally, the practice which it prove my point to wash to this day. When WB Animation focused their programming on the-so freshly network, The WB, Hanna-Barbera began to solely focus on the Cartoon Network. Cartoon Network became a exclusive front yard of tons recently Hanna-Barbera productions. One of a 1st original series to air in Cartoon Network was Genndy Tartakovsky's ''Dexter's Laboratory, one of the first spinoffs from the What-A-Cartoon! (a/k/a World Premiere Toons and Cartoon Cartoons) project. Others followed rather Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken, and The Powerpuff Girls'', the endure series to have H-B's notable whirling star logotype (which was number 1 utilized within 1979). H-B likewise produced many freshly direct-to-streaming motion picture featuring Scooby-Doo (freed by Warner Bros.) when well as creating the recently Jonny Quest series, The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest.

In a area of 1998, a Hanna-Barbera title began to disappear from either either a newly shows from a studio in favor a Cartoon Network Studios title (although a H-B logotype was however shown together using the Cartoon Network logotype at the prevent of shows until 2001). This come withwithin convenient by owning shows that were produced outside of Hannthe-Barbera, however that Cartoon Network experienced a hand in producing, prefer aka Cartoons' Ed, Edd, and Eddy, Kino Film's Mike, Lu and Og, Curious Pictures' Sheep in the Big City, Codename: Kids Next Door, and Noodlesoup/Astrobase Last's The Venture Bros. (made for Adult Swim), when well as a shows a studio continues to develop, such as The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Evil Con Carne, Samurai Jack, Megas XLR, ''Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, The Life and Times of Juniper Lee, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi(co-produced with Renegade Animation), and Camp Lazlo.

After William Hanna died in 2001, an era was over. Though a Hanna-Barbera title remains for "classic" productions according to properties prefer a Flintstones, Scooby-Doo, & others, a studio bearing its title is okay, Cartoon Network Studios, which continues a traditions mass produced from either its foundation fathers when creating newly paths of their have. A title "Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc." is however its official title, utilized inside a select few instrument & right of first publication notices.

Around 2002, a br& fresh series just about Scooby-Doo and a gang entitled What's New, Scooby-Doo?'' was released. Despite existence produced at Warner Bros. Television Animation (non Cartoon Network Studios), a copyright message at the prevent of both episode states andy skinner when "Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc." This is the single recent series where Hanna-Barbera's title is mentioned when andy skinner (when Cartoon Network's series come copyrighted per channel itself).

Notable Hanna-Barbera/Cartoon Network Studios productions
For the complete listing of Hanna-Barbera/Cartoon Network Studios productions, understand List of works produced by Hanna-Barbera and Cartoon Network Studios.