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Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10
''Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10'' is a series of 10 syndicated made-for-television animated films produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions as part of ''The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera'' programming block from 1987 to 1988, featuring the studio's popular animated characters: Yogi Bear, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Scooby-Doo, Huckleberry Hound and Top Cat. The first 8 films used traditional cels, while the last 2 films used digital ink and paint. Films Crew * Executive Producers: William Hanna and Joseph Barbera * Directors: Arthur Davis, Oscar Dufau, Bob Goe, John Kimball, Don Lusk, Charles A. Nichols, Ray Patterson, Jay Sabry, Paul Sommer, Carl Urbano, Rudy Zamora * Executive in Charge of Production: Jayne Barbera * Creative Designer: Iwao Takamoto * Show Editor: Gil Iverson * Supervising Director: Ray Patterson * Character Designer: Scott Jeralds * Casting Director: Andrea Romano * Recording Director: Gordon Hunt * Graphics Iraj Paran, Tom Wogatzke * Music Composed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Animation
Animation is a method by which still figures are manipulated to appear as moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited on film. Today, most animations are made with computer-generated imagery (CGI). Computer animation can be very detailed 3D animation, while 2D computer animation (which may have the look of traditional animation) can be used for stylistic reasons, low bandwidth, or faster real-time renderings. Other common animation methods apply a stop motion technique to two- and three-dimensional objects like paper cutouts, puppets, or clay figures. A cartoon is an animated film, usually a short film, featuring an exaggerated visual style. The style takes inspiration from comic strips, often featuring anthropomorphic animals, superheroes, or the adventures of human protagonists. Especially with animals that form a natural predator/prey relationship (e.g. cats and mice, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newsday
''Newsday'' is an American daily newspaper that primarily serves Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island, although it is also sold throughout the New York metropolitan area. The slogan of the newspaper is "Newsday, Your Eye on LI", and formerly it was "Newsday, the Long Island Newspaper". The newspaper's headquarters is in Melville, New York, in Suffolk County. ''Newsday'' has won 19 Pulitzer Prizes and has been a finalist for 20 more. As of 2019, its weekday circulation of 250,000 was the 8th-highest in the United States, and the highest among suburban newspapers. By January 2014, ''Newsday''s total average circulation was 437,000 on weekdays, 434,000 on Saturdays and 495,000 on Sundays. As of June 2022, the paper had an average print circulation of 97,182. History Founded by Alicia Patterson and her husband, Harry Guggenheim, the publication was first produced on September 3, 1940 from Hempstead. For many years until a major redesign in the 1970s, ''Newsday'' copie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Lusk
Donald R. "Don" Lusk (October 28, 1913 – December 30, 2018) was an American animator and director. Early life Lusk was born on October 28, 1913, in Burbank, a suburb of Los Angeles, California. He served in the United States Marines during World War II. Career Lusk was hired by The Walt Disney Company in 1933 as an Inbetweener. He was 20 at the time. His first film as an animator was 1938's ''Ferdinand the Bull'' adapted from 1936's ''The Story of Ferdinand'' by author Munro Leaf. He worked on ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'', ''Pinocchio'', '' Fantasia'', ''Bambi'', '' Song of the South'', ''Melody Time'', ''So Dear to My Heart'', '' The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad'', ''Cinderella'', '' Alice in Wonderland'', ''Peter Pan'', ''Lady and the Tramp'', ''Sleeping Beauty'' and ''One Hundred and One Dalmatians''. Lusk left Disney in 1960, but continued to work as an animator during the 1960s and 1970s. Aside from animation, Lusk also directed multiple cartoon films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Davis (animator)
Arthur Davis ( Davidavitch) (June 14, 1905 – May 9, 2000) was an American animator and director known for his time at Warner Brothers' Termite Terrace cartoon studio. Early life Davis was born on June 14, 1905, in Yonkers, New York to Hungarian parents. He is the younger brother of animator Mannie Davis. Career Davis got his start as a teenager at Raoul Barre's Studio in 1918 and later moved to Jefferson Film Corporation when the Mutt and Jeff cartoons began being made there in January 1921 it was claimed that he won a cartoon competition. In 1923 he joined Out Of The Inkwell Films in New York, working as an assistant in 1922 since Dick Huemer proposed him to be an assistant. He is reputed to have been the first in-betweener in the animation industry. Another of his distinctions was that he tapped out the famous "bouncing ball" of the "Follow the Bouncing Ball" cartoons of the 1920s. While one of the Fleischer brothers played the ukulele, Davis would keep time with a woo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yogi And The Invasion Of The Space Bears
''Yogi and the Invasion of the Space Bears'' is a 1988 animated made-for-television film produced by Hanna-Barbera for syndication as part of the '' Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10'' series. This Hanna-Barbera production was the last to feature Daws Butler as the voice of Yogi Bear. Yogi and Boo-Boo go on an out-of-this-world voyage. When they are kidnapped by spacemen, the duo are cloned, and the clone bears soon invade Jellystone Park. Synopsis Ranger Smith, fed up with Yogi constantly stealing campers' picnic baskets, declares it to be "Y. B. Day", and plans to send Yogi Bear to Siberia. While in hiding, Yogi and Boo-Boo are abducted by two aliens, Zor 1 and Zor 2, and taken to Planet Daxson. The next day Ranger Smith and his sidekick Ranger Roubideux try to find Yogi but find Cindy instead, who is angry and refuses to talk. Meanwhile, Zor 1 and Zor 2 introduce Yogi and Boo-Boo to their boss, DAX Nova. DAX Nova creates clones of Yogi and Boo-Boo and sends them to take over Jellys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scooby-Doo! And The Reluctant Werewolf
''Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf'' is a 1988 animated made-for-television film produced by Hanna-Barbera for syndication as part of the ''Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10'' series. It marked Scrappy-Doo's last appearance as a protagonist in the ''Scooby-Doo'' franchise to date; he would not appear in a ''Scooby-Doo'' production again until the live-action ''Scooby-Doo'' film in 2002. It is also the last appearance of Shaggy's outfit from ''The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo'' until ''Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase''. Plot Every year, all of the classic Hollywood monsters (consisting of Frankenstein's monster, his wife Repulsa, a Mummy, the Witch Sisters, Bone Jangles the Skeleton, Dr. Jackyll/Mr. Snyde, Swamp Thing, and Dragonfly) gather at Count Dracula's castle in Transylvania for the "Monster Road Rally", a road race similar to Wacky Races, awarding the winner with the "Monster of the Year" award as well as many other macabre prizes as announced by Dracula's wife and co-ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scooby-Doo And The Ghoul School
''Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School'' is a 1988 animated made-for-television film produced by Hanna-Barbera for syndication as part of the ''Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10'' series. Plot Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, and Scrappy-Doo are on their way to Miss Grimwood's Finishing School for Girls, where they have been hired as gym teachers. However, once there, they find that it is actually a school for daughters of paranormal beings. The pupils include Sibella, the daughter of Count Dracula; Elsa Frankenteen, the daughter of Frankenteen Sr.; Winnie, the daughter of the Wolfman; Phantasma (usually called Phanty for short) the ghostly daughter of a phantom; and Tanis ( named after an Egyptian city), the daughter of the Mummy–all inspired by Universal Monsters of the 1930s-40s. Other residents include a floating white hand; an octopus butler; a two-headed shark that lives in the school's moat; Legs, a spider that helps with the upcoming volleyball match; Miss Grimwood, the headmistress; and her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rockin' With Judy Jetson
''Rockin' with Judy Jetson'' (also known as ''Judy Jetson and the Rockers'') is a 1988 animated made-for-television film produced by Hanna-Barbera for syndication as part of the ''Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10'' series. Plot When intergalactic rock star Sky Rocker plays a concert at the Cosmic Coliseum, Judy Jetson and her friends Iona and Starr go into orbit. Starry-eyed Judy meets her idol and gives him a song she has written just for him, "Rockin' Round the Galaxy". But also at the concert are Quark and Quasar, bumbling henchmen to the evil, music-hating Felonia Funk. They are carrying a secret code that will unlock the powers of the Mental Flosser and enable Felonia to control the universe and banish music forever. The secret code accidentally gets switched with Judy's song, and Sky unwittingly turns it into a new rock hit. A depressed Judy takes refuge at the Crater Club, where her father George, disguised as a punk-rocker, tries to ''save'' her from Sky. But Sky has already ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Good, The Bad, And Huckleberry Hound
''The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound'' is a 1988 animated Western television film produced by Hanna-Barbera for syndication as part of the ''Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10'' series. The film parodies various Western films (in a manner akin to ''Blazing Saddles'') and its title is a take-off of ''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly''. Huckleberry is constantly referred to as a "mysterious, steely-eyed, and silent-type stranger" (though Huck is just being himself), spoofing the Western stock character of the Man with No Name. Several other plot points are lifted from well-known film Westerns, such as ''High Noon'' and '' High Plains Drifter''. The setting of the film is 1849 California, during the California Gold Rush. This film marks the final time Daws Butler voiced Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw and Baba Looey, Snagglepuss, Hokey Wolf, and Peter Potamus, as he died three days after its telecast from a heart attack. This is the only movie in the ''Superstars 10'' series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Top Cat And The Beverly Hills Cats
''Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats'' is a 1988 animated made-for-television film produced by Hanna-Barbera as part of the ''Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10'' series. The two-hour film was aired in broadcast syndication. The movie's plot is essentially an extended remake of the original show's episodes, "''The Missing Heir''" and "''The Golden Fleecing"''. In the episode, Top Cat and the gang help a teenager claim her inheritance. Plot The movie opens on what appears to be another average day in Hoagie's Alley (which, for the purposes of this story, has apparently been relocated closer to Beverly Hills) for Top Cat and his gang, who are today posing as Boy Scouts, out doing good deeds in the hopes of getting rewards. During the course of this, Benny the Ball saves the life of a bag lady. Unbeknownst to Benny, it is revealed afterwards that she is actually a rich woman named Gertrude Vandergelt, who plans to leave her fortune to her missing niece, a 16-year-old teenager named Amy. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yogi Bear And The Magical Flight Of The Spruce Goose
''Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose'' is a 1987 animated made-for-television film produced by Hanna-Barbera as part of the ''Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10'' series. This film aired in syndication. Plot Yogi leads his friends on a tour of the " Spruce Goose", built by billionaire Howard Hughes. While touring, they were accidentally locked inside the plane. To make matters worse, the dome where the plane was located closed up for the night. Augie Doggie tripped over and opened a door. The gang came to the cockpit. Yogi accidentally pushed a button which magically activated the plane. Soon the gang exited the dome in the plane. In an attempt to avoid a bridge, Yogi pulls back the wheel, causing the Spruce Goose to lift off. After narrowly avoiding colliding with the Hotel, the Spruce Goose leaves Long Beach to take the gang on a magical flight. Yogi and his friends listen to the radio about a group of arctic animals down at the South Pole trapped by a snowstorm and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Jetsons Meet The Flintstones
''The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones'' is a 1987 animated crossover made-for-television film produced by Hanna-Barbera for syndication as part of the '' Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10'' series. The two-hour special stars the cast of the Hanna-Barbera sitcoms ''The Flintstones'' and ''The Jetsons'' as they cross paths following a time travel experiment gone wrong. Plot In the future, while Elroy is busy working on a time machine, George Jetson comes to Mr. Spacely's office for a serious discussion. Spacely's rival, Cogswell, has been stealing Spacely's business ideas, putting their jobs in jeopardy. Spacely wrongfully blames George, suspecting that he was spying for Cogswell. Spacely orders George to spy on Cogswell to clear his name to avoid getting fired. George finds out that Cogswell's robot computer, S.A.R.A., has been seducing the Spacely robot computer, R.U.D.I., into leaking Mr. Spacely's secrets. George tries to report this to Spacely, but R.U.D.I. sabotages his efforts. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
