Toon-Rock Enthusiast / Moderator
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Oct 30, 2003, 12:23 PM
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Hanna-Barbera Cartoons
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I just got this book in the mail on Monday, Hanna-Barbera Cartoons.
I only started reading it yesterday (because I've been looking at the pictures and drawing some characters). Anybody else read this book? So far, I've found it very fascinating. What I also love about this book is that it has pictures of cels you can find online that cost a ton of money.
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Research Guru
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Oct 30, 2003, 12:45 PM
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You're speaking about Michael Mallory's book with the cel on the front cover?
I took a look at it at the local library (Fine Arts reference desk, where I had to leave my library card as a deposit). A very "completist" volume, I must say.
There's also a book written nearly a decade earlier by Ted Sennett, entitled The Art of Hanna-Barbera: Fifty Years of Creativity. Although the library also has it, I haven't read that yet; have you?
By coincidence: The other day, I picked up (for a song) the Colpix LP Yogi Bear and Boo Boo, by Daws Butler and Don Messick. The cover was pretty well "split" between front and back, but the disc looked in good enough shape. It begs to be listened to!
Remember Colpix soundtrack albums? Other Hanna-Barbera LPs on the label included Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McDraw, Here Comes Huckleberry Hound, Mr. Jinks, Pixie And Dixie, Huckleberry Hound & The Ghost Ship, Quick Draw McGraw & the Treasure of Sarah's Mattress, Top Cat, The Jetsons and The Flintstones and Hey There It's Yogi Bear! They sure are hard to find nowadays.
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(This post was edited by eminovitz on Oct 30, 2003, 12:46 PM)
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Toon-Rock Enthusiast / Moderator
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Oct 30, 2003, 1:26 PM
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Yeah, it's Michael Mallory's book with the cell.
You're lucky you were able to find it in the library. I couldn't find it there at all! And no, I haven't read Fifty Years of Creativity to give you the abridged title 
I don't remember the LP's. I was born during the days when CD's were first coming out.
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Research Guru
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Oct 30, 2003, 1:32 PM
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Well, I wasn't around when the LPs first came out (I'm not that old!), but do remember seeing them a lot...before record collectors got hold of them.
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(This post was edited by eminovitz on Oct 30, 2003, 1:32 PM)
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Toon-Rock Enthusiast / Moderator
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Oct 30, 2003, 5:17 PM
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Your one step ahead of me then, eminovitz. I've never seen them at all! Not even on Ebay! Actually, I only resurrected my love of old HB cartoons recently (like last August when I first got Boomerang)
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Directing Animator / Moderator
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Oct 30, 2003, 5:32 PM
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I own the Mallory and Sennett books both. I love the orchestra picture of the H-B characters in the Mallory book. Great reference works although it would be great for an illustrated in-depth episode guide book (like Jeff Rovin's early "Encyclopedia of TV Cartoons" with the episode titles) for every Hanna-Barbera program including H-B versions of other creators' works ("Superfriends", "Smurfs", "Popeye") with writer and crew commentaries on the making of the episodes and their thoughts on the broadcast episodes.
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Intern / Contributor
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Oct 30, 2003, 7:16 PM
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I just picked up, off Ebay, the soundtrack LP to "The New Alice in Wonderland..Or What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This?" It was in mint condition. Cover is perfect and LP is mint.
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Directing Animator
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Oct 30, 2003, 7:55 PM
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Come on Ethan, your that old  You were, around when 8-Tracks first came old weren't you?  just kidding and have a safe and fun Halloween ! and that goes to Fluidgirl as well (the Halloween part only) 
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Cartoon Aficionado / Moderator
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Oct 31, 2003, 4:23 AM
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I own both books, too. Sennett's book is a bit more detailed, especially in the Superheroes chapter. Mallory's book contains episode guides for some shows, but not all.
Other Hanna-Barbera books worth owning are My Life In Toons, by Joe Barbera, A Cast Of Friends, by William Hanna, and Hanna-Barbera's World Of Super Adventure. I also own the latter two.
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Toon-Rock Enthusiast / Moderator
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Nov 3, 2003, 5:50 PM
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If you want a list of HB Toons, try The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. It's got nearly every cartoon ever made mentioned in it!
Actually, one of the sole reasons I bought HB Cartoons is because of a never ending search of looking for connections between The Impossibles and The Monkees (although I think I've covered everything that there is to be covered!)
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Animator
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Nov 3, 2003, 9:03 PM
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You're speaking about Michael Mallory's book with the cel on the front cover? I took a look at it at the local library (Fine Arts reference desk, where I had to leave my library card as a deposit). A very "completist" volume, I must say. There's also a book written nearly a decade earlier by Ted Sennett, entitled The Art of Hanna-Barbera: Fifty Years of Creativity. Although the library also has it, I haven't read that yet; have you? [unquote] I have both. Each is important to own. olpix soundtrack albums? Other Hanna-Barbera LPs on the label included Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McDraw, Here Comes Huckleberry Hound, Mr. Jinks, Pixie And Dixie, Huckleberry Hound & The Ghost Ship, Quick Draw McGraw & the Treasure of Sarah's Mattress, Top Cat, The Jetsons and The Flintstones and Hey There It's Yogi Bear! They sure are hard to find nowadays. [unqoute] Well, how about Hanna-Barbera's OWN record label-HBR? Interestingly, oftentimes HB had to subsitute different voice actors for their star characters (Paul Frees in lieu of Daws Butler as Huck, and Allan Melvin as Yogi with June Foray as Boo Boo)!! ------------------------- Okay, so you're Brad Pitt..--Shania Twain (that's her in my avatar---I can't put a title underneath it! :))
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Animator
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Nov 3, 2003, 9:03 PM
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If you want a list of HB Toons, try The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. It's got nearly every cartoon ever made mentioned in it!
Actually, one of the sole reasons I bought HB Cartoons is because of a never ending search of looking for connections between The Impossibles and The Monkees (although I think I've covered everything that there is to be covered!)
Far ebtter but only for theatricals, though, is Graham Webb's ANIMATED FILM ENCLYCLOPEDIA.
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Newbie
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Jan 2, 2011, 2:50 AM
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That book is a great book. I checked out once. There were cartoons in there I had no idea were hanna barbera cartoons. I'm trying to find the book now to buy. I'm a huge hanna barbera fan. I'm hoping that Wheelie and the chopper bunch will be put on dvd and The Dukes cartoon will be put on dvd. In that book they show that hanna barbera made a cartoon on the based on the Fall Guy tv show. I haven't been able to find it.
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Supervising Animator
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Jan 4, 2011, 10:10 AM
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So I'm guessing the 1998 book also talks about obscure H-B such as Breezly and Sneezley, Loopy de Loop, and Yippie, Yappie, and Yahooey?
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Thank God for kids who love obscure things-Lee Hazelwood (1929-2007)
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Inbetweener
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Jan 5, 2011, 7:43 AM
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There's an illustration for Breezly & Sneezly (in the form of a title card), on Page 49.
Loopy and Yippee, Yappee & Yahooey are only mentioned in the Chronology, on
Page 236. Mallory's book, however, does offer complete episode guides for The
Flintstones, Yogi Bear, Top Cat, The Jetsons, Jonny Quest, and Scooby-Doo.
The earlier book by Ted Sennett offers more info on the more obscure cartoons.
"Breezly and Sneezly" is discussed at length on Page 125 (although here it is
erroneously referred to as a segment of The Magilla Gorilla Show, when it actually
debuted on The Peter Potamus Show before being swapped for "Punkin Puss and
MushMouse"). Loopy de Loop is described in detail (with an accompanying illustration)
on Page 72. But neither "Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey" nor (surprisingly) Peter Potamus
are mentioned at all in the main text, only in the Chronology, on Page 247.
Each book has both its strengths and weaknesses. The book by Sennett offers more
info on the classic cartoons, but the Mallory book has the aforementioned episode
guides and also covers the later cartoons (Johnny Bravo, Powerpuff Girls, Dexter's
Laboratory, etc.).
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Cartoon Aficionado / Moderator
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Jan 5, 2011, 8:43 AM
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Maybe someday, someone will write the definitve HB book, which would have complete episode guides and trivia about every animated series from the studio. It's exhaustive, I know, but it would be worth it.
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