Those were OK, but got monotonous after awhile. But they were still far better than their 5th-rate attempts (and, most probably, budgets) at keeping the old WB characters alive. The Daffy Duck/Speedy Gonzalez cartoons were bad enough (since when does a duck chase mice?), but the Coyote/Road Runners were the worst released by Warners since the mid '30s Buddy cartoons. Only Chuck Jones could do those right; Rudy Larriva had no clue. At least they let Bugs Bunny rest in peace.
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Trump’s TMTG to launch streaming service (featuring “Non-Woke” programming and “Cancelled” shows)
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Great music too.
I'll admit the Pink Panther cartoons made me find out about the Pink Panther movies, which I'm a huge fan of.
Me too. Hanna-Barbara was pure TV crap lifted directly from the 50's Honeymooners. H-B had much more to do with the rising costs of old time animation than cartoon quality. Even the orchestration of the old WB cartoons was trashed for cheap sound effects.Flintstones was a Hanna-Barbera show. There are animation snobs who would come down on you like an anvil dropped from the edge of a cliff for mentioning H-B in the same sentence as WB, such is the gulf in quality between the two. I'm one of them.
do copies and Amos & Andy still exist?
Seems I heard Bill Cosby bought them all to keep them off the air.
Me too, and they were good. I didn't think Steve Martin was so bad but of course he's no Peter Sellers.
Some episodes of the TV shows still exist out there but not in the usual commercial places. I found an almost complete radio series several years ago and there may be commercial copies of the radio series for sale by "old time radio" sellers.
I cannot address that Bill Cosby rumor. I thought it was CBS or some other broadcast conglomerate that keeps the TV series in the can. Too bad too because those TV actors were hilariously funny.
Seen several episodes on YouTube. Now I can see why the NAACP forced it off the air in 1966 (just ask WREC Memphis and WISN Milwaukee as to why they had to replace it at 6pm at the time).
It was not "the rising costs of old time animation".
When theaters ceased running a newsreel and a cartoon ahead of the feature film, the only animation outlet was TV. Television could either rent syndicated old Tom & Jerry cartoons or buy new productions. But the new production budgets were based on TV's ability to pay for either network shows or syndication.
The TV options required a totally different kind of production: slightly deeper stories instead of big screen visual gags. So the stories, even if done in "new" animation, carried the weight. And the costs were affordable in free TV.
Found it odd that the music from the Flintstones clips was edited here. 🤔
If you think Hanna Barbera's animation is bad it's still great compared to Clutch Cargo :
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I know that "The Flintstones" was H-B, but I also know that H-B hasn't existed as a separate production company in decades, and ultimately has ended up as part of WB. So if someone is interested in licensing any of that H-B product, it's Warner Media (or Warner Discovery, or whatever they're now called) that they'll be going to.Flintstones was a Hanna-Barbera show. There are animation snobs who would come down on you like an anvil dropped from the edge of a cliff for mentioning H-B in the same sentence as WB, such is the gulf in quality between the two. I'm one of them.
Nobody ever used the words "Clutch Cargo" (Actually, Cambria Productions, since their other cartoon series' such as Space Angel used the same Syncrovox method) and "animation" in the same sentence. That wasn't animation; it was still pictures with the lips of the voice actors superimposed.If you think Hanna Barbera's animation is bad it's still great compared to Clutch Cargo
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