Hanna-Barbera? Looney Tunes?

As a Gen-X'er, I watched the Bugs Bunny Road Runner show every Saturday morning and never missed. After school on weekdays though, I grew quite partial to the Tex Avery cartoons, particularly the ones with "Southern Wolf." I want to say that's where Droopy originated as well, but I'm not 100% certain.
 
My greatest Looney Tune memory is watching Roadrunner on a screen set up on Navy Field while the Allman Brothers played in the background at the last Jubilee. I was absolutely fubared and it was wonderful.

One of two nights in my life that I don't remember how I got home.
 
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Both were great, but my favorite cartoon show, by far, was "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle" which was not produced by either one.
 
heelinhell said:
Both were great, but my favorite cartoon show, by far, was "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle" which was not produced by either one.
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Somewhat related…



In 2018 I met Frank Hursh. A wonderful abstract artist, he had just turned 90, and has lived and worked most of the last 65 years+ in Mexico. Mr. Hursh attended Black Mountain College, an avante-garde place (near Asheville, NC — 1933-57) from 1949-50. Mr. Hursh went to Mexico to study The muralists (Diego Rivera, Siquieros, Rufino Tamayo, etc.) and found a home. While in Mexico Mr. Hursh worked for Val-Mar/Gamma Productions on ‘Rocky & Bullwinkle.’ The photo just below is of one of his backgrounds.

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In an interview Hursh had this to say: “At Gamma, there were 250 – 300 people working at any one time. I had from 8 to 12 people, depending, in my Department. Guillermo Aguilar was my assistant. All in all, we did some 18 and a half minutes of limited animation a week. At 12 images per second, that’s about 13,320 images produced in a week! That means layout, backgrounds, inking and painting, photographing! We did quite a lot of work, very quickly.

Sometimes, we did get some crazy things out of layout that changed the style of the backgrounds [that had already been done] for the whole show—and we would be so busy trying to match things up for the animation. One time we got a layout that was completely different from all the others and we had no time to change it. It was a bit crazy. Sometimes, because of rushing around, things were not done in the same style, which was visibly noticeable when it was aired. It gave the show a quirky feel, a bit off the wall. I think that was one of the things, along with the dialogue, that helped the appeal of Rocky & Bullwinkle.”

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Got to address the similarities between Cartoon and Television characters...Fred Flintstone was Ralph Kramden from The Honeymooners for example.
 
donbosco said:
Got to address the similarities between Cartoon and Television characters...Fred Flintstone was Ralph Kramden from The Honeymooners for example.
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What!?!? Are you sure? I distinctly remember Ralph Kramden operated a bus, but Fred Flintstone operated a dinosaur. Totally different skill sets. Further, Jackie Gleason did ads for Old Gold cigarettes but Fred Flintstone did ads for Winstons. I can still remember that catchy Winston jingle, "Winston tates bad like cigarette shat. No filter, no taste, just a [snap, snap] twenty cent waste."
 
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korgguy1971 said:
As a Gen-X'er, I watched the Bugs Bunny Road Runner show every Saturday morning and never missed. After school on weekdays though, I grew quite partial to the Tex Avery cartoons, particularly the ones with "Southern Wolf." I want to say that's where Droopy originated as well, but I'm not 100% certain.
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My favorite "Southern Wolf" one is "Billy Boy"

 
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