Fred Seibert's Blog

This picture from 1988 pretty much shows you the Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna I met when I was unexpectedly tapped by Scott Sassa and Ted Turner to run the famous Hanna-Barbera studios. I became a quick study on both of them and soon commissioned Bill Burnett to write the following essay about the studio to straighten out a few miscomprehensions about their company.

Limited Animation…Unlimited Imagination

Here’s the true story: When theatrical cartoons were on death’s door, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera single-handedly (or, rather, double-handily) rescued cartoons from oblivion. As a cartoon blues man might say, “If it wasn’t for limited animation, we wouldn’t have no animation at all.”

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