No Generation X'er can forget the monochrome colors and compromising frame rate of 1970s Hanna-Barbera animation. Take that unmistakable style and some autumnal inking, and you've got The Thanksgiving That Almost Wasn't . Boomerang is reaching into the Hanna-Barbera archives to bring back this all-but-forgotten TV special from the 1970s. You can catch it at 10 a.m. and at 7 p.m. (ET). According to...
Alex Toth is one of the giants of the comic book business and his career -- whether it was Hanna Barbera character designs , Hot Wheels comic strip ads , or his hand-written postcards to friends -- is always worth paying attention to. Here is the complete THE LAND UNKNOWN via the Hairy Green Eyeball blog . It's a movie adaptation Dell comic book from 1957 and it's full of dinosaurs and helicopters...
By David Lambert - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE HANNA-BARBERA'S LEGENDARY ANIMATED SUPERSTARS COMPETE FOR THE GOLD IN SCOOBY'S ALL STAR LAFF-A-LYMPICS VOL. 1 RELEASED ON DVD FOR THE FIRST TIME JANUARY... (more)
Once Batman the Animated Series became a huge success, a follow-up featuring the Man of Steel seemed inevitable. That it took until 1996, four years later, was the only crime in the process. The equally successful adaptation from the comics lasted four seasons and 54 episodes, helping set the stage for the bets adaptation yet: Justice League/JL Unlimited . On Tuesday, Warner Home Video releases a...
Filmation was created by Lou Scheimer and Hal Sutherland, who met while working at Larry Harmon Pictures, in 1963 (Rod Rocket) and their last production was in 1993 (Happily Ever After). The studio was purchased by the L'Oreal cosmetics company in 1989 and the film library has been owned by various entities since then. The studio was perhaps best known as the chief competitor to Hanna-Barbera Productions...
Recommended The Show: For those of us who were mere rugrats back when Saturday morning TV was as sacred as a Barbie Townhouse or a Mike Schmidt rookie card, the notion of reliving that experience via DVD is damned near irresistible. Alas, nostalgia-addled fare like Saturday Morning Cartoons 1970s, Volume 2 inevitably falls short of expectations. Revisiting the boob tube of our formative years never...
They were the melodies that announced that cartoon funtime was here, that it was time again to surrender to the animated haze. In our Pavlovian raptures, us kids didn't notice that a lot of those songs were pretty lousy. Presenting part two of a three-part exploration we're calling Saturday Morning Nightmare: The Worst Theme Songs In Cartoon History . Gluttons for punishment and sugary breakfast cereals...
They were the melodies that announced that cartoon funtime was here, that it was time again to surrender to the animated haze. In our Pavlovian raptures, us kids didn't notice that a lot of those songs were pretty lousy. Presenting part two of a three-part exploration we're calling Saturday Morning Nightmare: The Worst Theme Songs In Cartoon History . Don't worry - you'll still understand what's going...
A couple of years after I morphed out of my fetal stage, I remember watching a cartoon rabbit with a big. slow-witted sidekick on the family's small, black-and-white set. The cartoon characters' names were Crusader Rabbit and Rags the Tiger. I didn't realize that I was watching teevee animation's pioneer show ... "[Jay Ward] and a childhood friend from pre-kindergarten, Alex Anderson, who was...
They were the melodies that announced that cartoon funtime was here, that it was time again to surrender to the animated haze. In our Pavlovian raptures, us kids didn't notice that a lot of those songs were pretty lousy. Presenting part one of a three-part exploration we're calling Saturday Morning Nightmare: The Worst Theme Songs In Cartoon History . Gummi Bears Nobody could have predicted that this...
Clay Shirky is brilliant as ever. This comes from his latest, an exploration of the various ways bookstores can be "saved." This is my favorite part: ...the spread of electronic commerce for everything from music to groceries is part of the increase in empty store fronts on shopping streets, leaving a series of Citi branches, ATT outlets, and Starbucks that repeat at regular intervals, like...
More Saturday morning magnificence from Hanna-Barbera Super TV Heroes #3 (cover dated October 1968). Get down with Birdman in "The Solar Scorpions" and Young Samson and Goliath in "The Cosmic Werewolf"! (Hey, where's my Quake cereal')
I’ve been pretty good at resisting temptation for the past several months and not buying any DVDs…though the current financial crunch at TDOY has had a lot to do with that than just my being well-behaved. But last week, a belated birthday present landed in my mailbox (courtesy of sister Debbie) and it just so happened to be the recently-released Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1960s, Volume...
Anna Faris and Dan Aykroyd are in negotiations to star in "Yogi Bear," Warner Bros.' feature take on the classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon. Faris will play a nature documentarian who follows the antics of a bear in fictional Jellystone Park..
Batman first appeared in Detective Comics in 1939 and was little more than detective who wore a superhero costume. Batman's powers evolved along with the character through the years, eventually ending up on prime-time tv on the ultra-campy BATMAN (1966) tv show starring Adam West and Burt Ward. The popularity of this show eventually led to the creation of the first animated Batman series, Filmation's...
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