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Hanna and Barbera: Conversations presents a lively portrait of Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera, the influential producers behind Tom and Jerry, the Flintstones, Scooby-Doo, the Smurfs, and hundreds of other cartoon characters who continue to entertain the world today. Encompassing more than fifty years of film and television history, the conversations in this volume include first-person accounts by the namesakes of the Hanna-Barbera studio as well as recollections by artists and executives who worked closely with the pair for decades. It is the first collection of its kind about Hanna and Barbera, likely the most prolific animation producers of the twentieth century, whose studio once outflanked its competitor Walt Disney in output and influence. Bill Hanna fell into animation in 1930 at the Harman-Ising studio in Los Angeles, gaining skills across the phases of production as MGM opened its animation studio. Joe Barbera, a talented and sociable artist, entered the industry around the same time at the wild and woolly Van Beuren studio in Manhattan, learning the ins and outs of animation art before crossing the country to join MGM. In television, Hanna’s timing and community-oriented work ethic along with Barbera’s knack for sales and creating funny characters enabled Hanna-Barbera to build a roster of beloved cartoon series. A wide range of pieces map Hanna and Barbera’s partnership, from their early days in Hollywood in the 1930s to Cartoon Network in the 1990s, when a new generation took the reins of their animation studio. Relatively unknown when they made over one hundred Tom and Jerry theatrical cartoons at MGM in the 1940s and 1950s, Hanna and Barbera became household names upon entering the new medium of television in 1957. Discussions here chart their early primetime successes as well as later controversies surrounding violence, overseas production, and the lack of quality in their Saturday morning cartoons. With wit, candor, insight, and bravado, Hanna and Barbera: Conversations reflects on Bill and Joe’s breakthroughs and shortcomings, and their studio’s innovations and retreads.

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Author:   Kevin Sandler ,  Tyler Solon Williams
Publisher:   University Press of Mississippi
Imprint:   University Press of Mississippi
ISBN:  

9781496850430

ISBN 10:   1496850432
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   15 May 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Introduction Chronology Hanna and Barbera: After Fifty Years, Opposites Still Attract Morrie Gelman / 1989 Cartoon Creator Joseph Barbera Takes Tom and Jerry to Movies Tom Provenzano / 1993 Hanna and Barbera at MGM Michael Barrier / 1999 Roundtable Discussion with Mike Lah Darrell Van Citters / 1977 Interview with Ray Patterson Michael Mallory / 1998 Oscar Goes to Author of Cartoon Fred Quimby / 1944 They Paint a Million Cats Barrett Kiesling / 1956 The Influence of Crusader Rabbit on Ruff and Reddy Karl Cohen / 1989 Ed Benedict Amid Amidi / 2002 Daws Butler: The Master’s Voice Brian Lowry / 1987 Don Messick: Vocal Hero Brian Lowry / 1986 Cartoonists Turn to TV for Work Charles Witbeck / 1959 Lance Nolley Don Peri / 2011 A Few Words from Jerry Eisenberg Yowp / 2011 TV Hit from a Cartoon Factory Thomas E. Stimson Jr. / 1960 Close-Up on Huck and Yogi: Hanna and Barbera with Antoinette Bower Antoinette Bower / 1961 TV without Terror Jane Kesner Ardmore / 1962 Doug Wildey on Jonny Quest David W. Olbrich / 1986 Hanna-Barbera and Taft Broadcasting Lawrence H. Rogers II / 2000 It’ll Cost $40 to $50 a Day to Enjoy Area’s New Park George Palmer / 1969 The Improbable World of Hanna-Barbera Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera / 1967 The Purveyor of Saturday’s Fare John Stanley / 1968 Hanna-Barbera Presents Saturday Morning and Comedy Hanna-Barbera / 1969 The Men behind Dastardly and Muttley John Culhane / 1969 Iwao Takamoto Amid Amidi / 1999 Joe Ruby and Ken Spears on Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! Stu Shostak / 2012 Roundtable Discussion with Mike Maltese Darrell Van Citters / 1977 Hanna-Barbera Australia Dan Torre and Lienors Torre / 2018 Darrell McNeil on Super Friends Marc Tyler Nobleman / 2011 Hanna-Barbera School to Keep an Art Alive Lee Margulies / 1977 My Adventure in the Hanna-Barbera Animation Training Program Tom Minton / 2024 Tom Sito on Hanna-Barbera Kevin Sandler and Tyler Solon Williams / 2021 Margaret Loesch and Joe Barbera Sonny Fox / 1979 Squire Rushnell at ABC Kevin Sandler / 2021 Hanna-Barbera: The Cartoonists Who Own Saturday Morning John Mariani / 1979 The Smurfs Gerard Baldwin / 2015 Hanna-Barbera: Will Heidi’s Song Be Its Snow White? John Canemaker / 1981 Yabba Dabba Crew: Working with Hoyt Curtin at Hanna-Barbera Jeff Bond / 2001 Fred Seibert on Cartoon Network Jesse Kowalski / 2017 Brian Levant on The Flintstones Movie Kevin Sandler / 2021 Joseph Barbera: An Animated Life Scott Shaw! / 2007 Suggested Resources Index

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Kevin Sandler is associate professor in the Film and Media Studies Program at Arizona State University. He is author of The Naked Truth: Why Hollywood Doesn’t Make X-Rated Movies, coeditor of Titanic: Anatomy of a Blockbuster, and editor of Reading the Rabbit: Explorations in Warner Bros. Animation. Tyler Solon Williams is assistant professor in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. He studies animation, television, cultural history, and media theory.

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