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Warner Bros. Animation opened its doors on March 15, 1980, to produce compilation films and television specials starring the Looney Tunes characters.
- Origin of Warner Bros. Cartoons: Bosko, Buddy, and Beans The Cat
- Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, Bob Clampett, and Mel Blanc
- End of The Golden Age of Warner Bros. Cartoons
- Legacy of Warner Bros. Cartoons
Warner Bros. Animation began when producer Leon Schlesinger, who was distantly related to the Warner Brothers who founded their namesake studio, hired a pair of animators, Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising, veterans of Walt Disney's Kansas City cartoon studio. Schlesinger put them in charge of creating cartoon shorts for the Warner Bros.' feature releas...
One of the major reasons why Porky was such a success was because of the influence of animation director Tex Avery, who had joined Leon Schlesinger Productions in 1935, and his team of animators that included Bob Clampett and Chuck Jones. Under Avery's direction, Porky was redesigned to be "softer" as opposed to fat, and Avery encouraged his animat...
Like other studios, Warner Bros. began phasing out theatrically-released cartoon shorts with the increasing popularity of television in the late 1950s. During this period, the studio underwent several major changes. The studio shut down cartoon production in 1962 and instead contracted the production company DePatie–Freleng Enterprises (founded by ...
Five Warner Bros. shorts won the Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoon): Tweetie Pie (1947),For Scent-imental Reasons (1949), Speedy Gonzales (1955), Birds Anonymous (1957), and Knighty Knight Bugs (1958). In addition, the documentary short So Much for So Little, directed by Jones for the studio, was one of two shorts to win the Academy Awa...
On January 7, 2013, Jeff Robinov (then head of the studio's motion picture division) founded a screenplay development department, nicknamed a "think tank" for developing theatrical animated films, known as the Warner Animation Group. [1]
The Entire History of Warner Bros. Animation Shows (1930 - 2022) This video is about the complete history of Warner Bros. Animation. Check out the Warner Bros. Movies Through the Years. •...
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History. 1970–1986: Restarting the studio. The original Warner Bros. Cartoons studio, as well as all of Warner Bros. 's short subject production divisions, closed its doors on October 10, 1969, due to the rising costs and declining returns of short subject production.
2 days ago · Warner Brothers, American entertainment conglomerate founded in 1923 and especially known for its film studio. In 1990 it became a subsidiary of Time Warner Inc. Warner Brothers’ headquarters are in Burbank, California.
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Warner Bros. Animation reopened its doors in 1980 to produce compilation films and television specials starring the Looney Tunes characters. Friz Freleng left DePatie-Freleng (which became Marvel Productions after being sold to Marvel Entertainment), and returned to Warner as executive producer.
