1950s - 1970s animations (British & American cartoons)

Yogi Bear is a family cartoon character, created by Hanna-Barbera Productions and appeared in comic books, TV and films. He made his debut in 1958 as a supporting character in The Huckleberry Hound Show. Yogi Bear was the first breakout character created by Hanna-Barbera and was eventually more popular than Huckleberry Hound.

The Pink Panther is a comedy series or film featuring a French police detective, Inspector Clouseau. The series began with the release of The Pink Panther (1963). The role was originated by Peter Sellers. Most of the films were directed and co-written by Blake Edwards, with theme music composed by Henry Mancini.

One of the best cartoon I have watched when I was younger and I think the main reason why I loved it so much is because of the pink panther lol.

Wile E. Coyote (also known  "The Coyote") is a character of Looney Tunes who always chases the Road Runner and his also a character from Looney Tunes who is trying avoid the coyote. They are a duo of cartoon characters from a series of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies. The characters (a coyote and Greater Roadrunner) were created by animation director Chuck Jones in 1948 for Warner Bros.

The Flintstones is an animated, American television sitcom that was broadcast from 1960, to 1966 on ABC. The show was produced by Hanna-Barbera. The Flintstones were about a stone age man with his family and his next door neighbor and best friend. The Flintstones was the most financially successful animated franchise for nearly three decades and until The Simpsons came out.

Top Cat is a Hanna-Barbera animated TV series which ran from 1961 to 1962 and for at least 30 episodes that was broadcasted on ABC. Reruns then were then broadcasted on channels like Cartoon Network and Boomerang. This TV series really took off and it so popular even now !!!

Oliver Postgate was an English animator, puppeteer and writer. He created and wrote of some of Britain's most popular children's TV programmes. Including Pingwings, Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine, Clangers and Bagpuss, they were all made by Smallfilms, the company he set up with Peter Firmin were shown on the BBC between the 1950s and the 1980s.

Hanna-Barbera Productions were an American animation studio that dominated American TV animation for nearly four decade. It was formed in 1957 by animation directors William Hanna and Joseph Barbera (creators of Tom and Jerry). Over the years, Hanna-Barbera produced many successful shows, including The Flintstones, Yogi Bear, The Jetsons and The Smurfs etc. 

Animation 1930s - 1950s

In the 1930s and the 1950s cartoons were huge and it was very popular back in the day and kids are still watching these cartoon till this day but people my age range were into it as if it's the games or movies of nowadays.

Some cartoon were racist and violent back in the day but I guess before, no one knew it would have an impact on society today they said that they were just cartoons. Some cartoon have still left a scar in todays society unfortunately somethings cant be undone.

It shouldn't very seriously though but I think kids are more aware now because of education of that's teaching them what's right from wrong but it is part of history to bring up the subject on how things have changed.

One of the ones that I have watched were Disney's 'pink elephants on parade' it was an interesting one to watch because it was really good for it's time and it was so creative and colourful like it was fun just to watch.

This cartoon is way behind my time I mean I don't even think I ever watched this but it looks OK for it's time though.

Produced by Van Beauren Studios and then distributed by RKO pictures, the series itself lasted from 1931 to 1933. Van Beuren was then purchased by a company in 1950 and then the characters got their name changed form Tom and Jerry to Dick and Larry.

Odd name and really unsuitable for a kids cartoon lol. Anyways it become more popular again between 1940s and 1950s.

GUMBY is made by Arthur Clokey nicknamed "Art" he created and modeled the green clay character and he was really popular for creating the character GUMBY. His career really took off in the early 1950s.

In total Art made over 230 episode!!! and it aired on TV in America with other countries airing it too. Art became a good example of someone for creating his stop motion out of clay.

I don't think in my time I watched or gone back to watch it or something I was more like watching Disney cartoon than stop motion cartoon but this GUMBY animation is interesting and I get why he is still popular to this day.

Fleischer Studious Inc, was an American animation company that is located in New York it was founded in 1921 as Inkwell Studios by two brothers Max Fleischer and Dave Fleischer.

They ran their company until its inception from Paramount pictures and the studio's parent company and the distributor of its films, forced them to resign in 1942.

However Walt Disney were it's competitor and their studio became popular for the cartoon they made such as Koko the clown Betty Boop, Bimbo, Popeye the Sailor and superman and those cartton were a blast back in the day kids were going crazy over them and they are still popular to this day.
 
Betty Boop is an animation created by the brothers they created a series which features Betty Boop as a sex symbol kind of inappropriate for kids. They also created a film series which was then released by Paramount pictures. She has also featured in magazines and the merchandise was all over shops.

I've only watched one episode but not when I was young and I'm not too crazy over Betty Boop I think I prefer Dick and Larry ahem...

History of early animation and animations 1900 - 1930

There are lots of different types of early animations they were all very popular and are really amazing for its time some even go back as further as 180AD but I guess each country and over the years had their own animation which then made it world wide.

These  animation are so popular that are still around now and for example Disney's company still stands till now but with modern content however Disney is my favourite because I grew up watching Disney and I still watch the shows that are on that channel.

However there are so many types of animation such as Zoetrope, flip book  American animation  British animation, Chinese animation and japanese anime so there are types and the first animation ever made were as old as ancient Egyptian times more that 4000 years old some ever further as further as 5200.

Winsor McCay 1867–1871 was an American cartoon artist and animator he is best known for making the comic strip Little Nemo which was still around from early 1900s till about 1930s. For some reason he worked under the name Silas on his comic strip.

Little Nemo is Winsor it was a comic strip and he succeeded in the time that he was still around and later changed the name of the strip from Little Nemo to In the land of wonderful dreams which caught the attention of many people kids loved it.

 He was a great cartoonist in my opinion but I don't think I've watched any of his stuff when I was little it's the first I've heard of him.

Lotte Reiniger 1899 - 1981 was a German film director known for making silhouette animation and she was anticipating with Walt Disney for over 10 years. She has made over 40 films over the span of her career and all she was using was her invention. 

She was also known for making the adventures of Prince Achmed 1926 and The Magic Flute featuring music by Mozart.

What she does is amazing I think I will watch some of her stuff on my spare time I seriously like the whole thing and I'm going to make one for myself because it looks fun to make.

Walt Disney and out of all the ones I've talked about he is the biggest and the most popular,

he was an animator, cartoonist, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and he did a lot more than the jobs I just listed.

He was huge even when he just started back then and his company is still huge he is known around the world and classed as a cultural icon because of his success worldwide.

 Walt Disney is one of the major motion picture company int he entire world last year Walt Disney had annual revenue of 45billion!!!

As an animator and an entrepreneur, He was known as a film producer he and the people he worked with created one of the world most iconic fictional characters that are still around today such as Mickey Mouse. He has also won more than 20 academy awards from a total of 59 nomination, including four in one year.

Georges Méliès was a french illusionist and film maker he is famous for leading many technical development in the earliest days of cinemas. He was really good at making special effects the first to do time lapse photography, hand painted color, multiple exposures, dissolves in his films.

People even referred to him as a Cine magician because of his ability to manipulate and  transform through cinematography. His best works are A trip to the moon and The impossible voyage.

I was surprised when I read about him because of how he was at editing especially for it's time they had no software to be honest I didn't think anyone can edit until our time but this guy did.

Some of his work is really funny.

Humorous Phases of Funny Faces is a 1906 short silent animated cartoon directed by James Stuart Blackton and was generally regarded by film historians as the first animated film recorded on standard picture film.

Fantasmagorie, was by French director Émile Cohl. It was screened for the first time on August 17, 1908 at Théâtre du Gymnase in Paris. Cohl later went to Fort Lee, near New York in 1912, where he worked for French studio Éclair and spread its animation technique to the US.