Hanna-Barbera was an American animated cartoon production company that produced animated television programming and motion pictures for forty-five years between 1957 and 2001. Hanna-Barbera was founded in 1944 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animation directors William Hanna and Joseph Barbera as H-B Enterprises, through which the pair used to do freelance television commercial production. After MGM shut down its animation studio in 1957, H-B Enterprises became Hanna and Barbera's full-time job. Hanna and Barbera immediately began producing television cartoons such as The Ruff & Reddy Show and The Huckleberry Hound Show, making their company one of the first dedicated to producing cartoons for television. By 1960, re-incorporated as Hanna-Barbera Productions, the company had become a leader in television animation production.

While regularly criticized for its use of limited animation techniques, Hanna-Barbera Productions produced successful prime-time, weekday afternoon, and Saturday morning cartoons for all three major networks, and for syndication as well, along with a sporadic amount of feature film projects. Over a two-decade span of success, Hanna-Barbera introduced many successful cartoon series, including The Flintstones, The Jetsons, The Huckleberry Hound Show, The Yogi Bear Show, Jonny Quest, and Scooby-Doo, all of which would go on to become icons of American pop culture.

From approximately 1970 to 1983, Hanna-Barbera Productions was the most successful television animation studio in the world, almost exclusively dedicated to producing Saturday morning cartoons. The company's fortunes declined some after weekday afternoon syndication became the most successful venue for television animation. In 1991, the company was purchased by Turner Broadcasting, primarily so that Turner could use its 300-plus cartoon series library as the basis of the programming for its new Cartoon Network cable television channel. Re-christened H-B Production Company in 1992, and Hanna-Barbera Cartoons in 1993, the studio continued without active regular input from William Hanna or Joseph Barbera, who both went into semi-retirement yet continued to serve as figureheads for the studio.

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£o Xampú, homenagem ao desenho animado da Hanna Barbera dos ursos psicodélicos que viviam em um zoo chamado "Wonderland Zoo".
guilkato (guilkato) Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:06:10 -0000
@riozoo Ou então Xampú, homenagem ao desenho animado da Hanna Barbera dos ursos psicodélicos que viviam em um zoo chamado "Wonderland Zoo".
O @FalabellaReal cansou e eu tambem cansei.Não aguento mais gente me perguntando se eu sou filho do Bob Pai e porque larguei a Hanna Barbera
BobFilho (ROBERTO MASCARENHAS) Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:53:10 -0000
O @FalabellaReal cansou e eu tambem cansei.Não aguento mais gente me perguntando se eu sou filho do Bob Pai e porque larguei a Hanna Barbera
AVATAR made LORD OF THE RINGS look like a Hanna-Barbera cartoon.
MarkJustice (Mark Justice) Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:33:15 - Subscribe to Hanna-Barbera RSS feed