| Re: Who is the Most Hated Person in the History of the Animation Industry? |
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Group: rec.arts.animation · Group Profile
Author: Patrick McNamaraPatrick McNamara Date: May 23, 2008 11:28
"Derek Janssen" nospam.verizon.net> wrote in message
news:vQ0Zj.4144$Zy1.2364@trndny05...> 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.
Some of the best shows HB made have not been re-aired since the 70s. They
produced just about the best animation of the time. These Are The Days could
have held it's own against anything coming out of Japan. Japanese animation
for TV at the time was mainly limited to the few shows from the 60s that
came over. Anime didn't make it big until the 80s when it replaced alot of
the HB shows.
The biggest flaw with the shows was the use of a laugh-track which was
standard for prime time comedy of the time but without HB there would have
been almost no SatAM.
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