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Hanna-Barbera
 Short history
 Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. (also
called Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc.,
and Hanna-Barbera Enterprises, Inc.),
was an American animation studio that
dominated North American television
animation during the second half of the
20th century.
 The company was originally formed in 1944 by
MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio)
animation directors William Hanna and Joseph
Barbera and director George Sidney as Hanna-
Barbera Enterprises in order to produce
sponsored films and later television commercials.
 After MGM shut down its
animation studio in 1957,
Hanna-Barbera Enterprises
became Hanna and Barbera's
full-time job, and the company
was renamed Hanna-Barbera
Productions in 1960.
 Over the next three decades,
Hanna-Barbera Productions
produced many successful
cartoon shows, including The
Huckleberry Hound Show, The
Flintstones, Top Cat, Tom and
Jerry, The Yogi Bear Show, The
Jetsons, Jonny Quest, Scooby-
Doo, The Smurfs, and Wacky
Races.
 In 1994, the company was renamed Hanna-Barbera
Cartoons.
 With Bill Hanna's death in 2001, Hanna-Barbera was
absorbed into Warner Bros. Animation, and Cartoon
Network Studios assumed production of Cartoon
Network output.
 Joe Barbera remained with Warner Bros. Animation until
his death in 2006.
 The Hanna-Barbera name is today used only to market
properties and productions associated with Hanna-
Barbera's "classic" works such as The Flintstones and
Scooby-Doo.
 The begining
 Melrose, New Mexico native William Hanna
and New York City-born Joseph Barbera first
teamed together while working at the
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio in
1939.

 Their first directorial project was a cartoon

entitled Puss Gets the Boot (1940), which
served as the genesis of the popular Tom
and Jerry cartoon series.

 Their professional strengths, weaknesses,

and personalities meshed perfectly and
Barbera said: "We understood each other
perfectly, and each of us had deep respect
for the other's work."

 Hanna and Barbera served as the directors

and story men for the Tom and Jerry
cartoons for seventeen years, winning seven
Academy Awards for Best Short Subject
(Cartoons) between 1943 and 1953 for their
work.
 Hanna and Barbera hired most of their MGM unit to work for H-B
Enterprises after MGM closed their animation studio in 1957.
 H-B's first TV series was The Ruff & Reddy Show, which premiered
on NBC in December 1957.
 In 1958, H-B had their first big success with The Huckleberry Hound
Show, a syndicated series aired in most markets just before
primetime.
The former Hanna-Barbera building at 3400
Cahuenga Blvd. in Studio City, California, seen in a 2007
photograph.

Hanna-Barbera was one of the first

animation studios to successfully produce
cartoons especially for television. Until
then, cartoons on television consisted
primarily of rebroadcasts of theatrical
cartoons.
WILLIAM HANNA AND JOSEPH BARBERA

 William Denby "Bill" Hanna (July 14, 1910 – March

22, 2001) and Joseph Roland "Joe" Barbera (March
24, 1911 – December 18, 2006)were both influential
American animators, directors, producers, television
directors, television producers, and cartoon artists,
whose movie and television cartoon characters
entertained millions of fans worldwide for much of the
twentieth century.
Hanna and Barbera won 7 Academy Awards and 8
Emmy Awards. Their cartoons have become cultural
icons, and their cartoon characters have appeared in
other media such as films, books, and toys. Hanna-
Barbera's shows have a global audience of over
300 million people and have been translated into more
than 20 languages.
 SOUND EFFECTS

 Besides their cartoons and characters, Hanna-Barbera was also

famous for their vast library of sound effects.
 They had cartoon-style sound effects (such as ricochets, slide
whistles and more), but also familiar sounds used for transportation,
household items, the elements, and more.
 When Hanna and Barbera started their own cartoon studio in 1957,
they created a handful of sound effects, and had limited choices.
They also took some sounds from the MGM animation studios.
 By 1958, they began to expand and began adding more sound
effects to their library.
 Besides creating a lot of their own effects, they also collected
sound effects from other movie and cartoon studios, such as
Universal Pictures, Warner Bros. Animation, and even Walt Disney
Productions.
Tom&Jerry
 Tom and Jerry centered on a never-ending rivalry
between a housecat (Tom) and a mouse (Jerry) whose
chases and battles often involved comic violence.
 Hanna and Barbera ultimately wrote and directed 114
Tom and Jerry cartoons at the MGM cartoon studio in
Hollywood, California between 1940 and 1957, when the
animation unit was closed.
 The original series is notable for having won the
Academy Awards for Best Short Subject (Cartoons)
seven times.
 Throughout the years, the term and title Tom and Jerry
became practically synonymous with never-ending
rivalry, as much as the related “cat and mouse fight”
metaphor has.
 Most of the cartoons Hanna and
Barbera created revolved around
close friendship or partnership;
this theme is evident with Tom
and Jerry, Yogi Bear and Boo Boo,
Fred Flintstone and Barney
Rubble, Ruff and Reddy, The
Jetsons family, 2 Stupid Dogs,
Cow and Chicken, The Powerpuff
Girls, and the friends in Scooby-
Doo .
 These may have been a reflection
of the close business friendship
and partnership that Hanna and
Barbera shared for almost 60
years.
 Hanna and Barbera was also one
of the first animators to realize the
enormous potential of television.
Leonard Maltin says the Hanna-Barbera team
"held a record for producing consistently
superior cartoons using the same characters
year after year—without a break or change in
routine their characters are not only animated
superstars, but also a very beloved part of
American pop culture".