Hanna-Barbera

From The TV IV

(Redirected from Hanna-Barbera Productions)

This article about a company needs to be expanded with more information.
Please help out by editing it.

Hanna-Barbera Productions was an animation company founded by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.

Hanna and Barbera originally worked (as a team) for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's animation department; their most famous creation for that studio was Tom and Jerry. When MGM closed their animation department, Hanna and Barbera decided to start their own animation studio, producing cartoons for television. Their first series was The Ruff and Reddy Show (1957-1960), a "serialized" cartoon similar to Crusader Rabbit; their second series, The Huckleberry Hound Show (1958-1962), became popular enough to make them a household name.

From the late 1950s to the early 1990s, Hanna-Barbera produced a huge volume of cartoons, mostly funny-animal fare, but also including adventure and mystery shows. Most of their cartoons featured limited animation, to facilitate rapid production; what the shows lacked in movement, they made up for in cleverness and/or humor (depending on the series).

In the 1990s, Hanna-Barbera Productions was bought out by Turner Broadcasting, and its library of cartoons was eventually made part of Cartoon Network's.