Peter Lord, one of the founders of the brilliant Aardman Animation (home to Wallace and Gromit) has paid tribute to Joseph Barbera on the BBC’s site:
“I was brought up on Hanna-Barbera cartoons. I still remember the impact of seeing, for the first time, The Huckleberry Hound Show.
To a child in the late ’50s, whose previous TV experience mostly consisted of the polite nannies who presented Watch With Mother, it was like a religious experience to see a show that was fast, noisy, modern and – as it seemed to me – incredibly sophisticated.
If we’d had colour TV, I daresay I’d have been blown away by that too.”
Elsewhere on the site the BBC’s entertainment correspondent Mark Savage discusses Hanna Barbera’s Golden Age of Animation. Still sad to think one of the last of the original Tom and Jerry team is gone; naturally I watched a few of my Fred Quimby-era T&J cartoons as a mark of respect. This meant a minute’s silence was impossible to observe and was replaced by several minutes of red-faced laughing. And that’s much better.
Thu, Dec 21, 2006
Art and animation, Film, TV and radio