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''Phantasy'' is a series of animated cartoons produced by the
Screen Gems Screen Gems is an American film production company owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate, Sony Group Corporation. ''Screen Gems'' has served several different purposes for its parent companies over the de ...
studio for
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from 1939 to 1946. The series, featuring characters such as Willoughby Wren and Superkatt, is notable as being the last theatrical animated series produced in black-and-white by a major studio. To cut costs, Columbia did not move the ''Phantasies'' out of black-and-white until the end of 1946, when it went to all-
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production. While the Screen Gems studio closed in 1946, the completed ''Phantasy'' cartoons continued to be released until 1948.


Filmography


See also

*'' Color Rhapsodies'' * '' Noveltoons'' * '' Modern Madcaps'' * '' Animated Antics'' * Cartune Classics * ComiColor Cartoons * Happy Harmonies * Merrie Melodies * Rainbow Parade * Silly Symphonies * Swing Symphony * Puppetoons


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Internet Movie Database
Columbia cartoons series and characters Film series introduced in 1939 American animation anthology series American animated short films Screen Gems film series {{short-animation-film-stub