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In 1961, Hanna- Barbera Productions, not Walt Disney Studios, were the kings of primetime TV animation. The company created and run by Hollywood veterans Joe Hanna and Bill Barbera was at the top of its game. It made sense that Hanna-Barbera would become partners-of-sorts with another veteran leader at the top of his game, Louis Marx - the toy king.
Just a few short years earlier Hanna-Barbera Productions were just an upstart studio struggling to get a stake in the formative new media we now call Television. In TV 's early days there was a huge shortage of content (not unlike the web not too long ago). For children's programming, old movies, shorts (like The Little Rascals , Laurel & Hardy and The Three Stooges ), Saturday-afternoon serials (like the Buck Rogers and Superman ), and cartoon shorts from the 1930s and 1940s filled the bill at first. But t
Into the fray came Hanna-Barbera Studios. They arrived with great experience – animating years of Tom and Jerry theatrical cartoon shorts for the then-defunct MGM Studios' animation division. More importantly they were one of the first companies to boldly utilize a new simpler, and cheaper, animation technique – called "limited animation." This technique, which incidentally was pioneered by animators at the Disney Studios in the early 1950s, gave H-B Productions the means to provide an entire season of half
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