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Male Cartoonists. American Directors. Childhood & Early Life. Joseph Roland Barbera was born on March 24, 1911, in Manhattan, New York. He was the first child of Italian immigrants Vincent Barbera (1889–1965) and Francesca Calvacca Barbera (1875–1969). Both his younger brothers, Larry (1912–1999) and Ted (1914–2000), had served in World War II.
Dec 19, 2006 · Funeral arrangements are pending. Joseph Barbera, who, with his longtime partner William "Bill" Hanna, created such beloved cartoon characters as Tom and Jerry, the Flintstones, the Jetsons, Yogi...
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Hanna-Barbera ( / ˈhænə ˈbɑːrbərə / BAR-BARE-ə) [1] was an American animation studio and production company, which was active from 1957 until its absorption into Warner Bros. Animation in 2001.
- March 12, 2001; 22 years ago
- Film, Animation, Television
- July 7, 1957; 66 years ago
- Hanna and Barbera
- Met at MGM
- Made Hit with Tom & Jerry
- Created Early Television Cartoons
- Returned to Full Animation
- Books
- Online
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...
Nov 20, 2017 · Barbera and wife Sheila, parents of three, are just breaking in a new home in Studio City, a Los Angeles suburb — their longtime Sherman Oaks house having been irreversably damaged by the January earthquake.
Nov 30, 2011 · The Hanna-Barbera Story, 1960. Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera spent several decades polishing the tale of how their studio rose to fame. The story sounded a lot better over time as details got a bit of a make-over. Here’s a feature piece by Larry Wolters of the Chicago Tribune of November 13, 1960. That was still in the “Wonderful Huck ...
Sep 7, 2022 · Sadly, the two men weren’t able to see how important their shows still are today; William Hanna passed in 2001 while Joseph Barbera passed in 2005. But their legacy lives on, and their contributions to furthering the field of animation will never be forgotten.
