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Yakky Doodle in Horse Collared
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation – Hicks Lokey, Layout – Lance Nolley, Backgrounds – Dick Thomas, Written by Mike Maltese, Story Director – Paul Sommer, Titles –...
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Growing and Selling a Cartoon Studio
It’s fascinating to see how the Hanna-Barbera studio tried to turn its disadvantages into selling points using public relations via the press. To hear Bill Hanna, Joe Barbera and PR whiz Arnie Carr...
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A Date With Jet Screamer, Part 2
Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera evidently wanted to make the Jetsons episode A Date With Jet Screamer a special cartoon. The episode comes to a complete stop for a one-minute, 45-second song. Instead of...
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Flintstones Weekend Comics, January 1967
Gene Hazelton or someone writing stories for Hanna-Barbera newspaper comics must have had rock-and-rolling nieces in mind. A Yogi Bear comic 50 years ago this month features one, and so does a...
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Snagglepuss in Rent and Rave
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation – Jack Ozark, Layout – Tony Rivera, Backgrounds – Neenah Maxwell, Written by Mike Maltese, Story Director – Art Davis, Titles –...
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Well, Don't That Beat All
Huckleberry Hound won some and lost some. But he sure got bashed around a spell in them early days, as he might tell us. In his first appearance on the air in Huckleberry Hound Meets Wee Willie,...
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Composing For the Flintstones
Hoyt Curtin, mused the late Earl Kress, “made the biggest impact on cartoon music since Carl Stalling...he is responsible for changing from a classical music sound to a big band flavor.” And Earl...
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Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, February 1967
Cartoons have certain rules. Rule 514 states that skunks must always smell. You can find it in animated cartoons going back to the silent days and I’ll bet it surfaced in some ancient Katzenjammer Kids...
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Yakky Doodle in Witch Duck-Ter
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation - Don Towsley, Layout - Noel Tucker, Backgrounds - Dick Thomas, Written by Mike Maltese, Story Director - John Freeman, Titles -...
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Yogi Bear, the Newspaper Star
Hanna-Barbera found a unique way to promote the Yogi Bear Show—with a comic strip. Today marks the 56th anniversary of Yogi appearing in the weekend papers, six days after his TV show began airing...
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Snooper and Blabber in Gopher Trap
Snooper and Blabber tangled (and lost miserably) with a gopher in Gopher Goofers. But it wasn;t the only time. Here are the story panels from one of the mini-cartoons that preceded (and introduced) a...
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Mr Jinks in Have a Ball
Mr. Jinks may have said “I hate meeces to pieces” in the little cartoons between the cartoons on the Huckleberry Hound Show than he did in the main cartoons. That’s how this bumper ends. In the opening...
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Aw. An H-B Valentine
Valentine’s Day isn’t an occasion I mark, but many people do. And greeting card companies are there to take advantage of it. Here are a couple for those of you who get all romantic and lovey (as...
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Flintstones Weekend Comics, February 1967
For reasons I still don’t understand, Fred Flintstone’s boss in the newspaper comics was not Mr. Slate. 50 years ago this month, he was employed at a quarry by a Mr. Rockly, who seems to have been a...
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Snagglepuss – Knights and Daze
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation - La Verne Harding; Layout - Tony Rivera, Backgrounds - Bob Gentle; Written by Mike Maltese, Story Direction - Paul Sommer, Titles...
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Popular Huck
In 1959-60, there were all kinds of newspaper stories talking about the popularity of The Huckleberry Hound Show, and all the crazy things it spawned, like the name of an island in the Antarctic and a...
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The Jetsons – Elroy’s Pal
About all “Elroy’s Pal” is missing is an ending where George Reeves says “And they call ME Superman.” You’ll recall the I Love Lucy episode where the TV Superman (Reeves) was supposed to show up at the...
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Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, March 1967
Kids, little animals and a cameo from Huckleberry Hound highlight the Yogi comics that appeared in Sunday newspapers 50 years ago this month. Winter also disappears in Jellystone Park after the first...
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Yakky Doodle in Out of Luck Duck
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation – Lew Marshall, Layout – Paul Sommer, Backgrounds – Dick Thomas, Written by Mike Maltese, Story Director – Alex Lovy, Titles – Art...
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