Hanna-Barbera

Cartoon Network Studios, the successor to Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc., is an American animated cartoon studio that has produced television animation, following in the footsteps of Hanna-Barbera, creators of animated television and motion picture releases for over forty years. more...

The original Hanna-Barbera company 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.

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