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The Hanna-Barbera headquarters in Los Angeles in the 1990s. The "swirling star" logo on the right was designed by Saul Bass in 1979. Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. ( / ˈhænə ˈbɑːrbərə / BAR-bər-ə) [ 1] was an American animation studio and production company, which was active from 1957 until its absorption into Warner Bros. Animation in ...
DIC Entertainment Corporation ( / ˈdiːk /; also known as DIC Audiovisuel, DIC Enterprises, DIC Animation City, DIC Entertainment, L.P., and DIC Productions, sometimes stylized as DiC ), branded as the Incredible World of DIC, was an international film and television production company that was mostly associated as an animation studio.
TVC Cartoons: Canada UK 1961–1979 1988–1997: Ub Iwerks Studio/Cartoons Films Inc: United States: 1930–1936: Iwerks sold the studio in 1936, but the studio continued to produce animation commercials into the mid-1940s. United Productions of America: United States: 1943–2000: Also known as UPA Van Beuren Studios: United States: 1928 ...
This is a list of cartoonists, visual artists who specialize in drawing cartoons.This list includes only notable cartoonists and is not meant to be exhaustive. Note that the word 'cartoon' only took on its modern sense after its use in Punch magazine in the 1840s - artists working earlier than that are more correctly termed 'caricaturists',
Main article: Early history of animation. Animated movies are part of ancient traditions in storytelling, visual arts and theatre. Popular techniques with moving images before film include shadow play, mechanical slides, and mobile projectors in magic lantern shows (especially phantasmagoria ). Techniques with fanciful three-dimensional moving ...
The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals is a 1994 book by animation historian Jerry Beck, with a foreword written by Chuck Jones . The book features the fifty greatest cartoons of all time; selected by a group of 1000 cartoon historians, animation professionals and film critics. The votes were culled from ballots ...
The Acme Corporation is a fictional corporation that features prominently in the Road Runner/Wile E. Coyote animated shorts as a running gag. The company manufactures outlandish products that fail or backfire catastrophically at the worst possible times. The name is also used as a generic title in many cartoons, especially those made by Warner ...
1953 – Peter Pan, Chilly Willy, Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom, Melody, Gumby. 1954 – Animal Farm, Tasmanian Devil. 1955 – Lady and the Tramp (becoming the first animated film to be filmed in CinemaScope ), Mickey Mouse Club, Speedy Gonzales, Mighty Mouse Playhouse. 1956 - The Twelve Months; Toei Animation is founded.