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• Final MGM cartoon with Coffee the Lion. September 21, 1935: Happy Harmonies: The Old Plantation: Rudolf Ising • First cartoon in Three-strip Technicolor not released by Disney. • First MGM cartoon with Tanner the Lion, who would be used on all color MGM cartoons until the studio's closure in 1957. October 19, 1935: Happy Harmonies ...
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.
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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.
Puss Gets the Boot did not win the 1940 Academy Award for Best Cartoon, but another MGM cartoon, Rudolf Ising's The Milky Way (1940) did, making MGM the first studio to wrestle the Cartoon Academy Award away from Walt Disney. After appearing in Puss Gets the Boot, Tom and Jerry quickly became the stars of MGM cartoons. With Hanna-Barbera under ...
December 17: Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton's Count Me Out (1938) starring Egghead and produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, is first released. December 23: Wilfred Jackson's Mother Goose Goes Hollywood, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, is first released. A cartoon featuring caricatures of Hollywood actors. [64]
Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising were an American animation team and company known for founding the Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animation studios. In 1929, the studio was founded under the name Harman-Ising Productions, producing Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies for Leon Schlesinger from 1930 to 1933. [1]