Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. (simply known as Hanna-Barbera, and also referred to as H-B Enterprises, H-B Production Company and Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc.) was an American animation studio founded in 1957 by former MGM animation directors and Tom and Jerry creators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. For more than three decades in the mid-20th century, it was a prominent force in American television animation.

The studio is known for creating a wide variety of popular animated characters and for 30 years, it produced a succession of cartoon shows. Some of their more famous works are (but not limited to) Scooby-Doo, The Flintstones, The Jetsons and Yogi Bear. They have also won seven Academy Awards, a Governors Award, eight Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, as well as being inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1993.

Additionally their studio pioneered the use of limited animation in television production, which helped them produced a quantity of shows in an effort to minimize their own smaller budgets. However their practices were seen more as a quantity-over-quality measure by some, especially when it came to their work in the 1970s. They were also known to have drawing inspiration from the works of other people and studios, and recycled their own as well. For example, The Flintstones based their characters from the late-1950s sitcom The Honeymooners.

Hanna-Barbera was bought by Turner Broadcasting System in 1991 and by then produced a few animated shows for Cartoon Network, before being absorbed into Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network Studios in 2001. Nevertheless, a lot of their cartoons are seen as well-regarded classics and are still memorable worldwide to this day.

Related

• Cartoon Network
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Nickelodeon
• Warner Bros.

See also

• Wikipedia Page