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Dec 19, 2006 · Dec. 19, 2006 12 AM PT. Special to The Times. Joseph Barbera, who, with his longtime partner William “Bill” Hanna, created such beloved cartoon characters as Tom and Jerry, the Flintstones ...
Joseph Barbera. Producer: ABC Afterschool Specials. Joseph Roland Barbera was an American animator, film director, and television producer. He was the co-founder of the company Hanna-Barbera, with his longtime partner William Hanna. Barbera was born in an Italian-American family. His parents were barbershop-owner Vincent Barbera (1889-1965) and Francesca Calvacca (1875-1969), both Italian ...
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Dec 19, 2006 · By Dave Itzkoff. Dec. 19, 2006. Joseph Barbera, an innovator of animation who teamed with William Hanna to give generations of young television viewers a pantheon of beloved characters, including ...
Dec 18, 2006 · One half of the most celebrated animation-producing duos in history, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera's company, Hanna-Barbera Productions, created some of the best-loved animated television programming of the 20th century and beyond, including "The Huckleberry Hound Show" (syndicated, 1958-1961), "The Yogi Bear Show" (syndicated, 1961-62 ...
- Hanna and Barbera
- Met at MGM
- Made Hit with Tom & Jerry
- Created Early Television Cartoons
- Returned to Full Animation
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William Hanna (1910-2001) and Joseph Barbera(1911-2006) are the single most successful producing/directing team in animation history. For nearly two decades, their work on MGM's Tom & Jerry cartoons rocked movie houses with laughter. However, when the duo brought their knack for sight gags and sure sense of parody to television, they became giants ...
Hanna and Barbera started out at opposite ends of the country before they met at MGM in 1937. The son of William John and Avice Joyce Hanna, William Denby Hanna was born on July 14, 1910, in Melrose, New Mexico. The dictates of his job as a construction superintendent for the Santa Fe Railroad caused the elder Hanna to move his family to Logan, Uta...
Most of Hanna and Barbera's early work at MGM was done under the aegis of producer Fred Quimby. After backing an unsuccessful series of cartoons based on the Captain and the Kids newspaper strip, Quimby was reluctant to allow Hanna and Barbera to produce a cartoon about a squabbling domestic cat and mouse they privately named Jasper and Jinx. Howev...
Early cartoons made for television faced significant budgetary hurdles that demanded cut-backs in the number of drawings used per frame in each film. The result was a technique called limited animation, which showed characters talking more than moving, and a lot of herky-jerky movement accompanied by sound effects and music to provide an illusion o...
At the peak of their success in 1967, Hanna and Barbera sold their production company to Taft Broadcasting, who promptly installed the former owners as co-presidents and co-directors of operations. The move allowed them to expand and place Saturday morning shows on all three networks. Consequently, the look and quality of the product suffered, and ...
Fischer, Stuart, Kids' TV: The First 25 Years, Facts On File Publications, 1983. Hanna, Bill, with Tom Ito, A Cast of Friends, De Capo, 1996. Sennett, Ted, The Art of Hanna-Barbera—Fifty Years of Creativity, Viking Studio Books, 1989.
“Hanna, William, and Joseph Barbera,” The Museum of Broadcast Communications, http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/H/htmlH/hannawillia.htm(December 20, 2007). “Joseph Barbera,” All Movie Guide, http://www.allmovie.com(December 19, 2007). “Joseph Barbera,” Internet Movie Database, http://www.imdb.com(December 20, 2007). “The Lives They Lived: William H...
Dec 18, 2006 · (December 18, 2006 – Burbank, CA) — Animation legend Joseph Barbera, co-chairman and co-founder of the world renowned Hanna-Barbera Studios, died today at his Studio City, CA home with wife Sheila at his side. He was 95 years old. “Joe Barbera truly was an animation and television legend,” said Barry Meyer, Chairman & CEO, Warner Bros.
Dec 19, 2006 · Animator Joseph Barbera, half of the legendary duo of Hanna-Barbera has died. Barbera, 95, created a host of cartoon characters, from the Flintstones to the Jetsons and Tom and Jerry.
