http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2006/yaba-daba-doo/ The Best In Sci-Fi & Fantasy, News, Reviews, Graphic Novels, comics and more! Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:40:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2006/yaba-daba-doo/comment-page-1/#comment-11357 The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log » Joseph Barbera Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:01:09 +0000 http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=1449#comment-11357 [...] Despite the animation not being as detailed and fluid as the MGM work Hanna-Barbera was successful almost from the beginning in the expanding new world of TV animation with the Huckleberry Hound Show and then a little show you may recall, about a certain ‘modern stone-age family’, the Flintstones. Proving that it was more than just the quality of the animation process which mattered, it was about generating and developing characters people would engage with and care about. Hanna and Barbera not only introduced the world to a new cartoon series but broke moulds while they did so: today the Flintstones is generally held to be the first proper prime-time cartoon on TV. The show also, unusually for the time, portrayed a blue-collar, working class family and did so in a longer format, eschewing the old 3 or 4 minute cartoon short format for a longer form which fitted perfectly into a TV scheduling slot, while artist Ed Benedict (who died only a few months ago) created some now-iconic designs for the studio (most especially for the Flintstones) which are held up today as classics. [...] [...] Despite the animation not being as detailed and fluid as the MGM work Hanna-Barbera was successful almost from the beginning in the expanding new world of TV animation with the Huckleberry Hound Show and then a little show you may recall, about a certain ‘modern stone-age family’, the Flintstones. Proving that it was more than just the quality of the animation process which mattered, it was about generating and developing characters people would engage with and care about. Hanna and Barbera not only introduced the world to a new cartoon series but broke moulds while they did so: today the Flintstones is generally held to be the first proper prime-time cartoon on TV. The show also, unusually for the time, portrayed a blue-collar, working class family and did so in a longer format, eschewing the old 3 or 4 minute cartoon short format for a longer form which fitted perfectly into a TV scheduling slot, while artist Ed Benedict (who died only a few months ago) created some now-iconic designs for the studio (most especially for the Flintstones) which are held up today as classics. [...]

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