Hanna and Barbera: Conversations
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Hanna and Barbera: Conversations

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Hanna and Barbera: Conversations

About this book

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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Table of contents

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