Word: barbera
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Jetsons (ABC), an animated cartoon series by Hanna and Barbera, is about a family that lives in the distant future and survives on show business's most solid fuel: corn...
...windshield blades and sneak off to the movies during maneuvers. No one over ten with an IQ above 36 should care much for it, but it is good amusement for little boys and is on the air at 6:30 p.m. Also on NBC, Cartoonists Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera have now followed their prehistoric FHntstones with another family called The Jetsons, who live so far in the future that their school-aged kids learn terms like "crazy" and "way out" in their ancient-history courses. The Jetsons have a robot maid, a sort of Hazel with gears. Father comes...
...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...
Storyboards & Puns. When Hanna and Barbera first thought of quickie cartoons for TV, they tried to give the idea to MGM. The studio was not interested. And during one of Hollywood's periodic panic waves it decided to stop all new production on Tom and Jerry. Hanna and Barbera were ordered to lay off their staff, and they soon voluntarily followed their co-workers out of the studio, rounded them up again to launch their own business; 70% of their present employees were with them...
...Hanna-Barbera shop is efficient but unconventional. Hanna and Barbera work harder and longer than anyone else. Hanna is the timer, who computes the mathematical intricacies of matching dialogue to action and budgeting the exact number of frames necessary to build each joke and each dissolve. Barbera, who can draw almost as fast as he can talk, does the planning-stage sketch work, can create a fully plotted storyboard (a sort of cartoon outline with dialogue) in five hours...