tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post8418098303889811414..comments2024-03-28T21:16:57.556-07:00Comments on Yowp: Growing and Selling a Cartoon StudioYowphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-24751573980724182882017-01-14T07:21:24.364-08:002017-01-14T07:21:24.364-08:00The article is a bit off about "no new cartoo...The article is a bit off about "no new cartoons"..it should have mentioned "at this time", since Jay Ward and others made Crusader Rabbit in 1948-49, and if you include non-=hand drawn (ie.,stop motion) the clay antics of Gumby could be included. In trad.animation, around the time HB appeared, Clutch Cargo, Colonel Bleep (the cartoon that started a colorful revolution) came around just before), and some others.<br /><br />But Hanna-Barbera was the first MULTI-series TV carton studio back then,though, relative to the others (Cambria, the Clutch Cargo studio whose show debuted around the time of HB, wouldn't get another till the mid 1960s with "The New Three Stooges"), and the "Col.Bleep" one was a very small, definite one-show wonder.<br /><br />Therefore there is certain truth to the Christian Science Monitor's comment about Hanna-Barbera being the first specializing in new cartoons just for TV, but that didn't mean 100% for reasons I give above.:) SC Pokeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15936757752447320636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-58405538523681337482017-01-12T04:23:33.334-08:002017-01-12T04:23:33.334-08:00Ruff and Reddy date back to May 1956, months befor...Ruff and Reddy date back to May 1956, months before MGM suddenly decided to shut down production. The characters were copyrighted by Shield Productions, a company owned by Bill Hanna, Mike Lah and background artist Don Driscoll.<br />Dick Bickenbach told Mike Barrier they were working on Ruff and Reddy material on the final week of the MGM studio operation; I suspect that would have been in spring 1957.Yowphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-54333167565745453812017-01-11T15:27:34.133-08:002017-01-11T15:27:34.133-08:00I am glad they had a strict policy against unplann... I am glad they had a strict policy against unplanned animation at Hanna Barbera. Can you imagine how "The Great Grape Ape Show" would have turned out if they would have just sat down and started animating it without a plan!? It would have been utter CHAOS! I can see Bill and Joe having to stop the occasional rogue animator from breaking away from the plan. "THE GORILLA IS SUPPOSED TO BE ON TOP OF THE CAR! THE DOG IS SUPPOSED TO BE DRIVING IT!! THERE'S A PLAN HERE PEOPLE!! STICK TO THE PLAN!!"Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15240777550573237439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-11818429039553328022017-01-11T10:11:19.885-08:002017-01-11T10:11:19.885-08:00They certainly did move from MGM to Columbia fairl...They certainly did move from MGM to Columbia fairly seamlessly. After all, according to Scott Shaw!, they started working on what would become “Ruff and Reddy” at MGM, after the announcement that that studio would be closing but before it had actually closed. And Joe certainly was a great bullshiter. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that they didn’t throw some ill-fated pitches before Sidney hooked them up with Columbia. <br /><br />I find it impossible to believe that the announcement that MGM would be closing its animation studio did not cause them much anxiety and worry at the time. To the point that they mused about selling hamburgers, as Joe Barbera once said? Probably not. :) But it’s certainly not implausible that they tried and failed to find animation work elsewhere and that Sidney ultimately connected them with Columbia all before the last MGM cartoon had been produced. <br /><br />It’s easy for us now to say that their move from MGM to Columbia went without a hitch. After all, we know how it turned out. But at the time, there was nothing inevitable about their success in finding someone to bankroll their planned animation revolution. <br /><br />Did they embellish their success story? Absolutely. Did they exaggerate their difficulties in getting H-B Enterprises off the ground? Almost certainly. Does that mean they had no difficulties or setbacks (which, fortunately, in the grand scheme of things ultimately turned out to be minor)? If only life were so… Sérgio Gonçalves https://www.blogger.com/profile/06629564277385996362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-10041250417170023992017-01-11T09:27:30.355-08:002017-01-11T09:27:30.355-08:00The studio seems to have reached its creative limi...The studio seems to have reached its creative limit shortly after this story was published, in that there was only so much work they could do before (as many others have noted), the story material provided by Maltese, Foster, Tony Benedict and others started running dry (and as the final non-Maltese/Foster/Tedd Pierce years at Warner Bros. showed, even higher-quality animation couldn't do all that much to offset weak story material).J Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15175515543694122729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-83281417835928676352017-01-11T08:51:06.443-08:002017-01-11T08:51:06.443-08:00H and B moved from MGM to Columbia nearly seamless...H and B moved from MGM to Columbia nearly seamlessly, the only hitch in between being the cancelation of Hanna's Crusader Rabbit. Joe, in particular, had a gift for PR bullshit. The two stories don't HAVE to be mutually exclusive. But that doesn't mean both are true.AJLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00904392539444780651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-38944454649124943152017-01-11T08:21:16.194-08:002017-01-11T08:21:16.194-08:00"The studio history was now including the “un..."The studio history was now including the “underdog” factor, how it tried and tried and tried and tried to get someone to get someone to look at its TV cartoons when the fact was George Sidney, head of the Directors Guild of America, hooked up Hanna and Barbera with Columbia Pictures."<br /><br />I'm sure there is some truth to both the underdog/failed pitches and the Sidney connection aspects of the story. They don't have to be mutually exclusive. In life, things are rarely as simple as any narrative -- whether rosey or cynical -- makes them out to be.Sérgio Gonçalves https://www.blogger.com/profile/06629564277385996362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-14957978337210333832017-01-11T07:25:50.165-08:002017-01-11T07:25:50.165-08:00THanhks YUowp..Your story does prove the old sayin...THanhks YUowp..Your story does prove the old sayings...<br />"Make lemons outta Lemonade"<br />"Where there's a cloud, there's a silver lining"(and at this time of year, there better soon be..)<br />"There will be a blessing in disguise"<br />"Necessity is the mother of invention"<br />"Where there's a will, there's a way"!<br /><br />By the way, the top 1958 Yogi is, of course, from one of the very first, "Pie Pirates", but I wonder whose animation there..Steve CPokeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15936757752447320636noreply@blogger.com