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Alan Zaslove
Alan Louis Zaslove (December 9, 1927 – October 2, 2019) was an American animator, producer and director of animated series. Career He started in 1943 as an "office boy" for Leon Schlesinger Productions with no involvement in animation and went on to work for United Productions of America, where he started as an assistant animator to Bill Melendez then full animator. did animation for '' Gerald McBoing-Boing'' and '' Mr. Magoo''. Zaslove has also worked on several other cartoons in film and TV such as '' The Alvin Show'', '' Roger Ramjet'', ''Popeye the Sailor'', '' The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo'', ''A Charlie Brown Christmas'', ''The Phantom Tollbooth'', '' CBS Library'', '' A Chipmunk Christmas'', '' Freedom 2000'', '' Fractured Fairy Tales'', ''George of the Jungle'', '' Carnival of the Animals'', '' The Hoober-Bloob Highway'', ''Tom Thumb'', ''The Night Before Christmas'', '' Clerow Wilson and the Miracle of P.S. 14'' and '' Stanley, the Ugly Duckling''. At Hanna- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county. The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of finance and commerce, culture, technology, entertainment and media, academics, and scientific output, the arts and fashion, and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations, international diplomacy. With an estimated population in 2024 of 8,478,072 distributed over , the city is the most densely populated major city in the United States. New York City has more than double the population of Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carnival Of The Animals (Warner Brothers)
''The Carnival of the Animals'' () is a humorous musical suite of 14 movements, including " The Swan", by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns. About 25 minutes in duration, it was written for private performance by two pianos and chamber ensemble; Saint-Saëns prohibited public performance of the work during his lifetime, feeling that its frivolity would damage his standing as a serious composer. The suite was published in 1922, the year after his death. A public performance in the same year was greeted with enthusiasm, and it has remained among his most popular. It is less frequently performed with a full orchestral complement of strings. History Following a disastrous concert tour of Germany in 1885–86, Saint-Saëns withdrew to a small Austrian village, where he composed ''The Carnival of the Animals'' in February 1886. From the beginning he regarded the work as a piece of fun. On 9 February 1886 he wrote to his publishers Durand in Paris that he was composing a w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Jetsons
''The Jetsons'' is an American animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. It originally aired in prime time from September 23, 1962, to March 17, 1963, on ABC, then later aired in reruns via syndication, with new episodes produced from 1985 to 1987. It was Hanna-Barbera's Space Age counterpart to ''The Flintstones''.CD liner notes: Saturday Morning: Cartoons' Greatest Hits, 1995 MCA Records While the Flintstones lived in a world which was a comical version of the Stone Age, with machines powered by birds and dinosaurs, the Jetsons live in a comical version of a century in the future, with elaborate robotic contraptions, aliens, holograms, and whimsical inventions. The original had 24 episodes and aired on Sunday nights on ABC beginning on September 23, 1962, with prime time reruns continuing through September 22, 1963. It debuted as the first program broadcast in color on ABC, back in the early 1960s when only a handful of ABC stations were capable of broadcasti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snorks
''Snorks'' is an animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and SEPP International S.A. in collaboration with 3M France and ran for a total of 4 seasons, consisting of a pilot episode and 65 episodes (108 segments), on NBC from September 15, 1984, to March 15, 1989. The program continued to be available in syndication from 1987 to 1989 as part of ''The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera''s third season. Origins Early years (1977–1981) In 1977, Freddy Monnickendam, a Belgian businessman and artist, first made contact with the comics industry when he negotiated the rights for the Smurfs comics to Father Abraham. He later became the head of SEPP, a branch of Dupuis, as an editor responsible for the merchandising of the Smurfs' comic series. Then he negotiated the contract between Peyo, NBC and Hanna-Barbera for the creation of a new ''Smurfs'' cartoon series; Peyo wanted the show to be as faithful as possible to his original comics, but Monnickendam wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The 13 Ghosts Of Scooby-Doo
''The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo'' is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, and the seventh incarnation of the studio's ''Scooby-Doo'' franchise. It premiered on , and ran for one season on ABC as a half-hour program. Thirteen episodes of the show were made in 1985. It replaced ''The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries'' and aired alongside '' Scooby's Mystery Funhouse'', a repackaging of earlier shows. The series also aired in reruns on USA Network in the 1990s, on Cartoon Network, and currently on Boomerang. With 13 episodes, it is currently the shortest-running series in the ''Scooby-Doo'' franchise. A follow-up film from a different creative team, ''Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost'', released in 2019, featured the previously unseen 13th ghost and ended the series. Plot In the initial episode, the gang are thrown off course on a trip to Honolulu in Daphne's plane, but accidentally landing instead in the Himalayas. While inside a temple ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Smurfs (1981 TV Series)
''The Smurfs'' ( syndicated as ''Smurfs' Adventures'') is an animated fantasy-comedy children's television series that originally aired on NBC from 12 September 1981 to 2 December 1989. Produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, it is based on the Belgian comic series of the same name, created by Belgian cartoonist Peyo (who also served as story supervisor of this adaptation) and aired for 256 episodes with a total of 417 stories, excluding three cliffhangers and seven specials. History In 1976, Stuart R. Ross, an American media and entertainment entrepreneur who saw the Smurfs while traveling in Belgium, entered into an agreement with Editions Dupuis and Peyo, acquiring North American and other rights to the characters, whose original name was "les Schtroumpfs". Subsequently, Ross launched the Smurfs in the United States in association with a California company, Wallace Berrie and Co., whose figurines, dolls and other Smurf merchandise became a hugely popular success. NBC Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paw Paws
''Paw Paws'' (also known as ''Paw Paw Bears'') is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions that first aired in 1985 and 1986. It debuted as part of the weekday/weekend morning programming block '' The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera''. The series name is a play on the paw paw, a fruit cultivated by Native Americans and indigenous to North America, and a play on words with a bear's paw. Reruns of the show formerly aired on Cartoon Network and later Boomerang. Plot Deep in a forest somewhere, a group of Native American bear cubs defending themselves from their enemies The Meanos led by the evil sorcerer Dark Paw. Dark Paw and his henchmen were after the Paw Paws' three large wooden totems, Totem Bear, Totem Tortoise, and Totem Eagle. The totems also served as the tribe's protectors, coming to life when needed through means of Princess Paw Paw's Mystic Moonstone, which she wore around her neck, to defend the village. Much like other Hanna-Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yogi's Treasure Hunt
''Yogi's Treasure Hunt'' is an American animated television series, and the fifth entry in the ''Yogi Bear'' franchise, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. Featuring Yogi Bear and various other Hanna-Barbera characters, it premiered in syndication on September 6, 1985 as part of '' The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera''. This is the last series to feature Daws Butler as the voice of Yogi Bear and his other characters before his death in 1988. While all 27 episodes were made in digital ink and paint across three seasons, its opening credits were produced in traditional cel animation. Plot Yogi and his friends Boo-Boo Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Snagglepuss, Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy, and Snooper and Blabber are assigned by Top Cat to go on treasure hunts around the world with Ranger Smith serving as their field commander who also makes sure that Yogi does his part in the treasure hunts. They travel aboard their ship the ''S.S. Jelly Roger'' and sol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Space Stars
''Space Stars'' is a 60-minute Saturday morning animated program block produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and broadcast on NBC from September 12, 1981, to January 8, 1982. ''Space Stars'' was narrated by Keene Curtis and featured five cartoon segments each week: * '' Space Ghost'' (2 segments, 6 minutes each) * '' The Herculoids'' (1 segment, 10 minutes) * ''Teen Force'' (1 segment, 7 minutes) * ''Astro and the Space Mutts'' (1 segment, 7 minutes) * ''Space Stars Finale'' (1 segment, 7 minutes) The cartoons would occasionally cross over into one another. ''Space Ghost'' and ''The Herculoids'' both had their own respective series in the 1960s. ''Teen Force'' and ''Astro and the Space Mutts'' were both new segments, although the Astro character was the family dog from '' The Jetsons''. Opening title narration The opening title narration was provided by Michael Rye and consisted of the following: Plot and segments ''Space Ghost'' A total of 22 episodes were produced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley, The Ugly Duckling
''Stanley, the Ugly Duckling'', a.k.a. ''Stanley'', is an animated American television special that was produced by Fine Arts Films and aired on May 1, 1982 as part of ABC's Weekend Special lineup followed by a primetime airing later that night. It is loosely based on the 19th-century fairy tale ''The Ugly Duckling'' by Hans Christian Andersen. Voices * Susan Blu - Stanley * Jack DeLeon - Nathan the fox * Wolfman Jack - Eagle One * Rick Dees - D.J. Additional voices * Brian Cummings * Lee Thomas * Julie McWhirter Songs * "Not a Duck" – Sung by Stanley * "A Little Traveling Music Please" – Sung by Nathan and Stanley * "Do Something Terrible Today" – Sung by Eagle One and the Hell's Eagles * "I Like Myself" – Sung by Nathan and Stanley Home video releases ''Stanley'' was given its first American VHS release by Image Magnetic Associates in 1984. It was later re-released in 1992 by Family Home Entertainment, and more recently in 2005 by Lionsgate Home Entertainment Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
