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Jul 7, 2017 · As we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of Hanna-Barbera, take a look back at our list of more than 4 decades of beloved cartoon characters.
Born in 1910 in Melrose, New Mexico, Hanna began his professional career at age 20, working as a story editor, lyricist, and composer for an independent studio; Barbera, born in New York City in 1911, was an accountant and a freelance magazine cartoonist.
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The show is set in the Stone Age town of Bedrock and follows the activities of the titular family, the Flintstones, and their next-door neighbors, the Rubbles (who are also their best friends). (In some of the earlier episodes, it was also referred to as "Rockville"). In this fantasy version of the past, dinosaurs, saber-toothed cats, woolly mammot...
The idea of The Flintstones started after Hanna-Barbera produced The Huckleberry Hound Show and The Quick Draw McGraw. Although these programs were successful, they did not have the same wide audience appeal as their previous theatrical cartoon series Tom and Jerry, which entertained both children and the adults who accompanied them. However, since...
The first three seasons of The Flintstones aired Friday nights at 8:30 Eastern time on ABC, with the first two seasons in black-and-white. Beginning with the third season in 1962, ABC televised the Flintstonesin color, one of the first programs in color on that network. Season four and part of season five aired Thursdays at 7:30. The rest of the se...
The night after The Flintstones premiered, Variety magazine called it "a pen and ink disaster", and the series was among many that debuted in a "vast wasteland" of a 1960–61 television season considered one of the worst in television history up to that point. As late as the 1980s, highbrow critics derided the show's limited animation and derivative...
Fred Flintstone – Alan ReedWilma Flintstone/Pebbles Flintstone – Jean Vander PylBarney Rubble – Mel Blanc; Daws Butler(season 2; episodes 1, 2, 5, 6, and 9 only)Betty Rubble – Bea Benaderet (seasons 1–4); Gerry Johnson(seasons 5–6)It was there he met Joseph Barbera. The son of an Italian immigrant, Joseph Roland Barbera was born on March 24, 1911, in New York City. Growing up in the Flatbush area of Brooklyn, the youngster discovered his love of theater and writing while attending Erasmus Hall High School.
Jun 7, 2024 · Hanna-Barbera was an animation studio and production company founded in 1957 by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, [1] with financial backing by film director George Sidney.
Apr 27, 2007 · That day finally came, Dec. 12, 2006, when Hanna's lifelong collaborator -- the ultimate animation pitchman -- Joseph Barbera passed away. His zest for his art and life propelled him to keep on producing and directing to the age of 95, when that smarter than average creator who did all the thin'in' for so many took his exit -- stage left.
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Dec 19, 2006 · Born March 24, 1911, in New York City to immigrant parents, Joseph Roland Barbera displayed an early aptitude for drawing.
