Arty McToon wrote:
> A hate list for full animation "purists":
>
> William Hanna and Joseph Barbera- limited tv animation pioneers.
> Repeating backgrounds, only the lips, arms, and legs of the characters
> move. Produced nothing but copies of "Scooby Doo" in the 1970s.
Among Cartoon Network Gen-X zombies, yes.
Among actual animation enthusiasts, no:
The historians credit Bill & Joe with, quote, "saving" animation by
bringing exclusive toons to that new TV medium, after most studios
closed down their animation divisions in the 50's--
And giving a lot of the classic guys a reason to keep on working,
including WB's Warren Foster and Michael Maltese (and their taste for
old-radio Jack Benny humor), and Dan Gordon of wartime-Popeye fame.
(Hey, they couldn't *all* go over and work for Walter Lantz, like Tex did.)
Oh, and ftr, CN-Boy, Bill&Joe produced Scooby-Doo (hoping to keep the
"adventure" idea going with their success on Jonny Quest), but most of
the 70's clones were under Charles Nichols and Iwao Takamoto's watch,
after studio regimes changed--
Read some history before you dig out the Jabberjaw jokes, it'll do you good.
> Lou Scheimer- Filmation Studios- Adapted good established ideas with
> constantlly re-used animation movements and character designs.
> Stories taught (shudder) lessons.
Okay, we'll give you that one: Pure, PURE evil.
(And to think that Thundercats thought it was "ripping off" He-Man, when
it was in fact blowing Filmation off the map, by using the new 80's idea
of outsourcing Japanese studios for animation, while He-Man still used
the same domestic Archies/Star Trek head-turns...)
Derek Janssen
ejanss1@
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