Wayback Wednesdays

I am frazzled! Today is potluck day at work and my last day until the 27th, so of course I (1) have to buffer folks acting like they can't survive and (2) finish up stuff I've lollygagged about till the last freaking minute!

It got me to thinking and it is timely about when you were a kid and you got frazzled. One of the things you did was sit down and watch cartoons. Afterschool they helped you relax, on Saturday morning they got your day started right. Even with all the 'adult' cartoons available such as the Simpsons, Family Guy and the like. There is nothing like turning to the Boomerang Channel and watching a good old fashioned Cartoon.

This Wayback is in rememberance of a good Saturday Morning Cartoon and the passing of a Cartoon Legend Joseph Barbera -

HANNA-BARBERA


Hanna-Barbera was an American animated cartoon production company that produced animated television programming and motion pictures for forty-five years between 1957 and 2001. Hanna-Barbera was founded in 1944 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animation directors William Hanna and Joseph Barbera as H-B Enterprises, through which the pair used to do freelance television commercial production. After MGM shut down its animation studio in 1957, H-B Enterprises became Hanna and Barbera's full-time job. For three decades, Hanna-Barbera produced many successful cartoon series, including The Flintstones, The Jetsons, The Huckleberry Hound Show, The Yogi Bear Show, Jonny Quest, Wacky Races, Scooby-Doo, and Smurfs, all of which would go on to become icons of American pop culture.

In 1991, the company was purchased by Turner Broadcasting, primarily so that Turner could use its 300-plus cartoon series library as the basis of the programming for its new Cartoon Network cable television channel. Re-christened H-B Production Company in 1992, and Hanna-Barbera Cartoons in 1993, the studio continued without active regular input from William Hanna or Joseph Barbera, who both went into semi-retirement yet continued to serve as figureheads for the studio.

During the late 1990s, Turner turned Hanna-Barbera towards primarily producing new material for the Cartoon Network. In 1996, Turner was bought out by Time Warner. With William Hanna's death in 2001, Hanna-Barbera was absorbed into Warner Bros. Animation, and Cartoon Network Studios assumed production of Cartoon Network output. Joseph Barbera died at age 95 in December 2006. The Hanna-Barbera name is today only used to market properties associated with Hanna-Barbera's "classic" works such as The Flintstones and Scooby-Doo, or in future reincarnations of these, or other shows.



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