Cartoon studios that went out of business.

[Cullen]

Does anyone remember the old cartoon studios that gave us memorable toons but are no more?

Jay Ward studios who made Rocky and Bullwinkle and many other memorable cartoons continued to make Cap'n Crunch commercials, but then stopped during the 80s and another animation studio seemed to take over giving the Cap'n new adventures.

DFE studios got purchased by Marvel a while back and became Marvel Studios, but soon, Marvel Studios disappeared during the 90s.

And in 1988, a lot of cartoon studios who were popular suddenly stopped making cartoons like Filmation, TMS, and Rankin/Bass. After that, DIC and Hanna-Barbera seemed to have dominated the cartoon timeslots that year.

MGM seemed to make a few good cartoons during the 90s, like the New Pink Panther and All Dogs Go To Heaven the series, but then stopped.

And Hanna-Barbera is now under the name Cartoon Network Studios.

[Classic Speedy]

Every studio to work on Tiny Toons except for Akom, TMS, and Wang no longer exist, atleast in their original form. Kennedy Cartoons's last work was on Fantastic Four, I believe (or it might've been Pirates of Darkwater). Freelance Animators New Zealand did work on Animaniacs and Pinky & The Brain and then apparently fizzled. StarToons went under after 9/11 due to the economy. Encore Cartoons did a whopping three episodes and then never did another show again, as far as I know.

[CookieS]

Flesicher Studios that animated Betty Boop and Popeye are gone.

[Dark Fact]

MGM seemed to make a few good cartoons during the 90s, like the New Pink Panther and All Dogs Go To Heaven the series, but then stopped.

I wonder if they went out of business because many Pink Panther fans were outraged over the fact that the Pink Panther spoke.

[Doyng]

Yes, it's sad but true:

Filmation went out of business in 1989. They were brought out by L'Oreal. Hallmark picked up their library in the 90's, then Entertainment Rights brought the library just this past year. Maybe we'll see more Filmation this time around besides Fat Albert and He-Man.

DePatie Freleng was renamed as Marvel Productions, (now Marvel Studios). The library is scattered because of property issues and no interest in airing any of their shows pre 1981. The Pink Panther will receive more attention than their other Saturday morning programs and theatrical shorts.

Ruby-Spears stopped sharing with HB's production crew to produce cartoons in the 90's. (That's why their shows looked like Hanna-Barbera produced it because most of HB's crew also worked with them). They've worked on other shows such as Mega Man, C.O.W. Boys, and other ABC weekend specials. Although they have plans on producing more shows, they've been quiet for awhile.

Founders Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass (of Rankin/Bass) had parted ways in the late 80's after their work on The Comic Strip and The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus. Their latest work was Santa, Baby! (which was hand drawn).

Jay Ward closed his studio down years ago. That's why they haven't made new Bullwinkle cartoons since.

Hanna-Barbera is now a brand name for their classic cartoons, since Cartoon Network took over producing the new programs that came from the "Cartoon Cartoons" Now it's called Cartoon Network Studios. God Bless You, William Hanna (R.I.P.)

DIC, Nelvana, Film Roman, and Klasky-Csupo, are all up and running. The movie studios (Disney and Warner Bros.) and cable networks are the ones who are putting out the newest shows.

UPA, Farmhouse, Ken Snyder, Format, World Events, Grantway-Lawrence, Famous, and Fred Wolf Films (MWS): I don't have a clue about what happened to them.

All I can say is: Thank you for those wonderful Saturday mornings that Baby Boomers and Gen X'ers ever spent. I don't care if the shows were subpar in our time (pre 90's to now). It was our little haven from 7am-2pm. :crying:

[Peter Paltridge]

StarToons went under after 9/11 due to the economy.
StarToons disappeared earlier than that....after Warner Bros. stopped using them no one else would pay their higher prices as opposed to paying Koreans like usual.
Jon McClenahan is one of my favorite animators of all time. COME BAAAACK!!

[Classic Speedy]

StarToons disappeared earlier than that....after Warner Bros. stopped using them no one else would pay their higher prices as opposed to paying Koreans like usual. I basically got the 9/11 tidbit from the interview on Toon Zone: http://wba.toonzone.net/mcclenahan/ But yeah, it is definitely tougher to pay American animators than Korean animators.

I still want to see the StarToons-animated short from What a Cartoon Show!, though. It'd be nice if CN brought it back, atleast for a couple months, anyway.

[Jave]

I still want to see the StarToons-animated short from What a Cartoon Show!, though. It'd be nice if CN brought it back, atleast for a couple months, anyway.That was The Fat Cats, right?

[Classic Speedy]

Yup, that was Fat Cats. Actually, a short I would've loved to see as a full series was "Help!", starring the fat cat who pricks his finger with a sewing needle and has to make his way through a labyrinth of a hospital. I love the animation on that short- fluid and expressive, and a lot of the sight gags were dynamite. Of course, it'd be hard unless they gave the cat some lines of dialog; for that short, however, that worked great.

[Feslmogh]

Yup, that was Fat Cats. Actually, a short I would've loved to see as a full series was "Help!", starring the fat cat who pricks his finger with a sewing needle and has to make his way through a labyrinth of a hospital. I love the animation on that short- fluid and expressive, and a lot of the sight gags were dynamite. Of course, it'd be hard unless they gave the cat some lines of dialog; for that short, however, that worked great.
That was from Bruno Bozzetto. His on-going work can be seen here... (http://www.bozzetto.com/) (http://www.bozzetto.com/)

[magicjac]

Yup, that was Fat Cats. Actually, a short I would've loved to see as a full series was "Help!", starring the fat cat who pricks his finger with a sewing needle and has to make his way through a labyrinth of a hospital. I love the animation on that short- fluid and expressive, and a lot of the sight gags were dynamite. Of course, it'd be hard unless they gave the cat some lines of dialog; for that short, however, that worked great.
OMG!!!!!! I remembere that short! LOL "Help!" was awesome! I loved "What A Cartoon! Show". I have some of their shorts on several "Scooby Doo, Where Are You?" cassettes of mine. LOL I wish CN would bring it back:(

[Dark Fact]

HELP! was usually shown during intermissions on TELETOON! :) Pretty good stuff! :)

[Steve Carras]

Well, ignoring studios, both overseas, outside the continental US and domestc which existed mainly for outsoouricng (Gamma, Startoons,etc.) and just dgoing for the most imporetant--the studios that produced shows and gave us so many franchises some that did.


Jay Ward

Hanna-barbera-inot counting the later CASRTOON NETWORK stuff

Rankin-Bass (their last one,though was not 1988 but a 1998 feature THE KING AND I-released by Morgan Creek (of ACE VENTURA and ANGEL EYES-with Jennifer Lopez-the stare of my avatar and of my sig--fame and) and its parent Warner Bros.which already had purchased a number of RB products.

Trans-Lus (encompasssing Felix the Cat productions and Adventure Cartoons for TV Inc.) way back in the 1960s.

Ed Graham Producitons of LINUS THE LIONHEARTED,based on the Post cereals unless they are still doijng thePost ads (with Sugar Bear right in there)

Ken Snyder (ROGER RAMJET)

Leonardo-TTV

And of course Filmation, Format Films and some others bit the dust./(Filmation sold out to L'Oreal, whose apparent one-time aninimal testing cost it a lot of celebrity endorsers!)

In point-of-fact, while I;ve seen Sarah M.gellaer, Courtney Thorne Smith and other attractice actressesm in your friendly neighbrhood cosmetics counter maker ID pics (Almay, etc.) in any type of store that would have them, I don't recvall ANY L'Oreal endrosers. (CT-S of Allmy MCBEal,According to Jim,Melrose Place,and Fast Times in 1986, a fave blonde actress of mine, used to ALmay ads,etc.Wonder how long 'fgore L'OREAL goes out of business due to political animal correctness?:p

(Art Clokey is working on some DAVY AND GOLIATH shorts..forgetting about the stories and portraylas, apparently against all odds they are copntinuing the same vales they had in the older shorts while keeping the show up to date within that format--I'd be interested to hear how the voices,sdound FX and music would sound)

Of the modern ones, Spumco IS in business, just not in Klasky Csupo shoes as Nickelodeon';s animation supplier as they COULDA been had that 1991 tiff between the two parties (worse than the arguments between their Ren and Stimpy characters) had never occurred. (Of course, that didn't stop ANY one from copyring that style,but that's another quesiton..)