Williams Street Productions, LLC,

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Williams Street and formerly known as Ghost Planet Industries, is an American animation and live action television production studio owned by the

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division of Warner Bros., a unit of Warner Bros. Discovery. The studio is the in-house production arm of

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and Keith Crofford oversaw operations for the building for most of its existence. In December 2019, co-founder Lazzo retired from the company, with business partner and co-founder Crofford retiring the following year. Michael Ouweleen was named president in 2020.

Name and logo

The current name of the company originates from the location of its headquarters building – which is also the home office for

– at 1065 Williams Street NW in

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near the current offices of TBS and

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on Techwood Drive. The facility began as a carpet factory and was purchased by Turner as overflow offices for, among other things, set building and woodworking facilities, as well as CNN Field Engineering. Soon after CNN moved into the

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in downtown Atlanta in the early 1980s, other Turner operations moved into the Techwood campus, an old country club which became the first headquarters for CNN. The street is named for early Atlanta settler Ammi Williams. The company's original name, Ghost Planet Industries, came from

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's fictional planet, where the animated

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'' was purportedly filmed. The studio's

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features a wavy, blurred gray image of Space Ghost's fictional studio, with the words "Williams Street" beneath it. The soundtrack of

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's production logo – a rumbling drum roll and two clinks of a

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– is often used while the GPI/Williams Street production card is shown. In its early years, the Williams Street logo would often be followed by the 1992–2004 Cartoon Network logo and the copyright byline against a black or white background. This was changed, in 2001, to a drawing of a

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with the CN checkerboard logo for its teeth, accompanied by

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yelling "SKULL!!!". On some programs, the yell is slowed down, on earlier episodes of ''Squidbillies'', it is replaced with one of the actors on the show saying "Skull", as the skeleton of character Early Cuyler briefly flashes instead of the regular logo. The logo was created by

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. In 2012, the inclusion of the Cartoon Network logo was removed and the copyright byline moved to beneath the Williams Street logo.

Filmography

TV animated series

TV live-action series

Internet series

Failed pilots

Specials

Stand-alones

TV series-related

Blocks

Feature films

Direct-to-video films

Future series in development

Other

Games

* ''

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'' (2007) * '' Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law'' (2008)

Music

Williams Street formed their own music label, Williams Street Records. The label was created after Jason DeMarco, Adult Swim's vice president of strategic marketing and promotions, worked on

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, a project with Danger Mouse and

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in 2005. Danger Mouse had previously worked on the music for ''

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'' and wanted to do an album that sampled that work. The group suggested the idea to Mike Lazzo; the project was successful. Williams Street Records now releases a majority of the music related to their shows. The label is managed by DeMarco.

Homages

1065, the street number for Williams Street, is also the hull number for ''

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''s USS ''FishCenterprise'' (a parody of the original ''Star Trek''s USS ''Enterprise'').

References

Informational notes Citations

External links

Adult Swim official website
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