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• Final MGM cartoon with the fanfare opening. • Tom and Jerry Golden Collection: Volume 1 Blu-ray. [31] • Tom and Jerry Spotlight Collection: Volume 2 DVD. [32] • Tom and Jerry: The Classic Collection: Volume 1 DVD. [33] August 22, 1942 — Blitz Wolf Tex Avery: 86 • First MGM cartoon directed by Tex Avery to be released.
The Care Bears Movie: March 29, 1985 [fr 4] The Adventures of the American Rabbit: February 14, 1986 [fr 2] Murakami-Wolf-Swenson Films Inc. GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords: March 21, 1986 [fr 5] Hanna-Barbera Productions Tonka Corporation: All Dogs Go to Heaven: November 17, 1989 [st 1] Sullivan Bluth Studios Rock-a-Doodle: April 3, 1992 [fr ...
Happy Harmonies is a series of thirty-seven animated cartoons distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and produced by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising between 1934 and 1938. [ 1 ] Produced in Technicolor , these cartoons were very similar to Walt Disney 's Silly Symphonies and Warner Brothers ’ Merrie Melodies musical series.
In March 1938, MGM hired film sales executive Fred Quimby, a man with no experience in the animation industry, [15] to set up and run the new MGM cartoon department. Among the holdovers from the Harman-Ising regime, William Hanna and Bob Allen were appointed directors, and Carmen Maxwell became production manager.
Tex Avery worked at Leon Schlesinger Productions directing Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for Warner Bros. between 1936 and 1941. Here, Avery had developed the Looney Tunes signature style of cartoon humor and was essential in the creation and/or development of many of the studio's star characters, including Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd and most notably Bugs Bunny.
In 1938, the comic strip The Captain and the Kids (Rudolph Dirks' parallel version of his own strip The Katzenjammer Kids) was adapted by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, becoming the studio's first self-produced series of theatrical cartoon short subjects, directed by William Hanna, Bob Allen, and Friz Freleng.
Jones's final Looney Tunes cartoon was From Hare to Eternity (1997), which starred Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam, with Greg Burson voicing Bugs. The cartoon was dedicated to Friz Freleng, who had died in 1995. Jones's final animation project was a series of 13 shorts starring a timber wolf character he had designed in the 1960s named Thomas ...
In 1940, Barbera co-created with William Hanna another duo of cartoon characters for MGM using the same names: a cat and mouse named Tom and Jerry. When Official Films purchased the Van Beuren library in the early 1940s, the characters were renamed Dick and Larry to avoid confusion with MGM's Tom and Jerry.