Word: barbera
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nine Movements. The Flintstones is the latest product of Hanna-Barbera Productions, a three-year-old Hollywood animation firm that has already established itself as the best cartoonmaker since Walt Disney and U.P.A. The stars of Hanna-Barbera are sprinkled all across the animal kingdom-from Quick Draw McGraw, the only horse who is the hero of a western, to Yogi Bear, who lives in Jellystone Park. Hanna-Barbera's Huckleberry Hound, whose flop-eared hero is one of the alltime favorites of American children, last spring won TV's Emmy Award for children's programing...
Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera, who formed their partnership in 1957 on a $5,000 investment and last year did $3,500,000 worth of business, have succeeded with a rare combination of organization and talent. Not only do they know how to make good, well-timed, funny films, but-to meet the demands of TV-they have vastly accelerated the complicated animation process itself. One half-hour with The Flintstones requires 43,000 individually exposed frames of film, but Hanna and Barbera are turning out more footage in two weeks than the cartoon departments of the major studios used...
...technical subtleties of the field call for long experience, and the partners have it. Both Hanna, 50, who was born in New Mexico and raised in Los Angeles, and Barbera, 47, who was born and raised in Brooklyn, had drifted among the big-time animation mills-Terry Toons, Looney Toons, Merry Melodies-before they came together at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1937. There they created the most exciting mano a mano in the history of film cartoons-matchless Tom and Jerry. For 18 years they manipulated the big cat and the little mouse for MGM's critical and financial...