Having gained a solid reputation as film animators, the two successfully approached Columbia's Screen Gems television studio with a storyboard for Ruff and Reddy, a cartoon tale about two pals, a dog and a cat.
In 1957 Hanna, Barbera, and live-action director George Sidney decided to try their collaborative hand at creating material for television. The studio abruptly closed its cartoon unit in 1957, preferring re-runs to new material, nearly two decades after Hanna and Barbera began working at MGM. Seventeen years of Tom and Jerry episodes were to follow. Their first joint effort was a Tom and Jerry cartoon entitled, "Puss Gets the Boot" (1940). Ĭomedy writer Bill Hanna and cartoonist Joe Barbera's careers merged in 1939, when both were working in the Cartoon Department at MGM Studios. The "Hannah Barbera" name was used again in 2021 when "Cartoon Network Studios Europe" used the name.
In 2005, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences unveiled a bronze wall sculpture of Hanna and Barbera and their characters, honoring the duo's work in television and film. Hanna-Barbera Productions is currently revived company used to market properties and productions associated with the studio's "classic" works such as Yogi Bear and Jonny Quest. Furthermore, a great many of the characters originally created by Hanna and Barbera for the small screen have crossed the boundaries into film, books, toys, and all manner of other media, becoming virtually ubiquitous as cultural icons. It is officially considered the very first major animation studio to successfully produce cartoons exclusively for television. It went on to provide a powerful and lasting impact on television animation. It's Main function was to produce films and commercials. Also under the names of Hanna-Barbera Entertainment, Inc. By William Hanna, Joseph Barbera and George Sidney. Hanna-Barbera Productions was an animation studio that impacted and dominated television since it was founded in 1957.
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