What If Hanna-Barbera Was Still Around?

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I've been wondering where the studio would be if it still existed.Though the losses of Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera would have a substantial impact, I think the studio could've continued to churn out new material. Putting some of their classic characters in new situations while at the same time attempt to create news stars (ex. What A Cartoon! Show).


What's your take?
 
Hanna-Barbera didn't close down; it changed its' name to Cartoon Network Studios a few years ago. It's not like it doesn't exist anymore, it just goes by a different name.
 
Hanna-Barbera ISN'T Cartoon Network Studios. CN studios was made in 1994 as a sub. Right after the Time Warner/Turner buyout, WB almost immediately absorbed Hanna-Barbera throughout the late 1990s. WB Animation (right after William Hana's death in 2001, and a year after CN Studios began producing their own stuff), had absorbed Hanna-Barbera. HB still exists, but for their library of shows and copyright.
 
You're both right . . . kind of.

On paper, Hanna-Barbera Studios DID become * Network Studios. However, the output of HB Productions prior to What A Cartoons (with the exception of The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest) are, more or less, the ownership of Warner Bros. Animation. The Hanna-Barbera name only exists in the copyright for the pre-WAC library. Everything from the WAC! era, with the exception of the Dino shorts, the George and Junior shorts, and O'Ratz, are owned entirely by * Network Studios (the Dino shorts are trademarked to Hanna-Barbera, the George and Junior shorts are, like Tom and Jerry and Droopy, trademarked to Network's sibling company Turner Entertainment, and O'Ratz is owned by Perennial Pictures. I don't know who they are either). That's why you won't see shows and shorts from Network on that new internet venture with the Warner Bros. Animation family.

I think the spiritual successor of Hanna-Barbera isn't * Network Studios but rather Frederator Studios, who have only now realized they could be a greater power when they're independent.

Plus, Mr. Seibert is one of the few suits I respect nowadays.
 
Many animation insiders bleive HB did right before they started producing the whole Scooby Doo Where Are You franchise, in terms of format and repetition! :p

(Steve Worth of Spumco, for one. And I agree with him..)

I, for one, am just happy to have 1957-1962 HB stuff to enjoy.:anime:
 
Both Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. and Cartoon Network Studios, Inc. are owned by AOL Time Warner. At the same time, both What's New, Scooby-Doo? and Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue are produced by Warner Brothers Animation, so whomever said Hanna-Barbera changed its name to Cartoon Network Studios or Hanna-Barbera was absorbed by Warner Brothers Animation, you're both are correct-they're all under the same roof. A little footnote- Hanna-Barbera's eventual merging with Warner Brothers was very bound to happened. Consider the long-running Superfriends- it was produced by Hanna-Barbera, licensed by D.C. Comics, in association with Warner Brothers Television or the short-lived cartoon series, The Dukes, based on the long-running CBS live-action comedy-adventure series, The Dukes of Hazzard. Like The Superfriends, The Dukes was also produced by Hanna-Barbera in association with Warner Brothers Television. Something to keep in mind, because AOL Time Warner controls Hanna-Barbera, Cartoon Network Studios, Warner Brothers Animation and Warner Brothers Television. Interesting information, if you agree.
 
Except at the time those shows were made, Hanna-Barbera wasn't part of or owned by Warner Communications---H-B were just the people who did the grunt work animating/licensing Warner Communications' then-newly-bought DC Comics subsidiary of characters and "Dukes of Hazard" sitcom characters. Filmation or some other studio could've just as easily been the animators for "Superfriends"/"Dukes", as far as Warner Communications' beancounters were concerned.

That, and mega-media mergers weren't the norm when those shows were made; it wasn't until the late 80's that mergers such as Warner Communications with Time, Inc. (to form "Time-Warner") began to come into force, and much moreso in the 90's... to the regret of those interested in media diversity and all...

-B.
 
Since they are all owned by Time Warner, Cartoon Network studios has the rights to use classic Hanna Barbara characters on their shows, at free well.

A lot of times, the HB characters are used in a negative way or to parody itself, I wonder if how they feel about the use of HB characters on Grim Adventures Of Billy and Mandy for example? In one episode, Yogi Bear was a vicious bear, in another episode Fred Flintstone was a retard caveman, and in another episode Scooby Doo mumbled a swear word.

I am sure those things, Hanna Barabara didn't have in minds for their creation.
 
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