List of Classic cartoon studios.

[WoodpeckerWoody]

The Golden area one:

Warner Bros.
Walt Disney Studios
Walter Lanz
MGM
DePatie-Freleng Enterprises
TerryToons
Fleischer Studios
Famous Studio
Pat Sullivan Cartoons
UPA
Columbia Pitcures
Hugh Harman Productions
Ub Iwerks studio
Hanna-Barbera (Most of there cartoons were for TV)

Black and White only:
Mutt and Jeff Films
Bray Productions
International Film Service
Van Beuren

I am now asking is this the complete list of classic cartoons studios or is some on missing from my list, but also note I am only interested i cartoon studios from USA.

[FleischerFan]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Van Beuren produce the color Rainbow Parade series - including those widely seen color Felix the Cats?

[Geezil]

Also:

Black and White Only

American Motion Picture Company

[J. A. Boschen]

Here is a few more for you

Ted Eshbaugh Productions
(Animated) Cartoon Films LTD.
Scarfoot/John McCrory
Les Elton Cartoons
Audio Cinema
Jamison Handy Organization

Other studios-(all film footage is possibly lost)
Romer Grey
Tat's Tales

[Cartman]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Van Beuren produce the color Rainbow Parade series - including those widely seen color Felix the Cats?
Yes, Van Boring (er Buren:D) did produce those Rainbow Parade cartoons. Although they're not top-notch cartoons, some of them can be okay.

[dandu]

-Tooting mine and Josh's horn here-

B/W only (some REC-Color ones will be available but before the Golden era)

Dandu Studios (1924-1927)
Rec Studios-Dandu Studios (1927-1934)

lol jk!

Also don't forget Charles Mintz's work for RKO and the Krazy Kats for Paramount during the 1920s.

[Alf]

There are also:

-John Sutherland Productions (educational/PR shorts)
-Impossible Pictures (they did the obscure JERKY JOURNEYS series in the 40´s, released thru Republic Pictures)
-Grant-Ray Lawrence (did mostly work for commercials and TV, but also three theatrical shorts for Walter Lantz in the 50´s)
-Format Films (worked mostly for TV as well, but also did a handful of theatrical shorts for Warner Bros. in the 60´s)

[WoodpeckerWoody]

Dandu Studios (1924-1927)
Rec Studios-Dandu Studios (1927-1934)
http://dandustudios.blogspot.com/
I was not asking for an fan productions. :confused:

[Tom Stathes]

lol jk!
He was not being serious. ;)

[Tom Stathes]

Educational and Vitagraph were not "cartoon studios" per se but distributed some animated series.
Don't forget Kinex Studios, an obscure studio doing stop-motion cartoons.

[J. A. Boschen]

Jerry Fairbanks also did cartoons/cartoon segments here and there for their non-paramount associated industrial films.

Another one that I am surprised no one has mentioned yet is George Pal Productions

Also; Kling Productions, who did some of those Drive-in advertisments.

[Sogturtle]

I went through and edited together everything from above and amended some it:D. Also,SOME studios are continuations of previous ones (i.e. Schlesinger and Warners or Fleischer and Famous and Paramount), so I regrouped those together. Annnnnd I added some to it all, final result... goulash!!:p

Leon Schlesinger/Warner Bros.
Harman-Ising (Arabian Knights Studio, H-I/WB, H-I/MGM.)
MGM
DePatie-Freleng Enterprises
Walt Disney
Universal/Walter Lantz
TerryToons
Fleischer Studios/ Famous / Paramount
Charles Mintz/Screen Gems-Columbia
Van Beuren
UPA
Hugh Harman Productions
Ub Iwerks studio aka (Animated) / Cartoon Films LTD.
John Sutherland Productions (Daffy Ditty theatricals (most were stop-motion) for UA, plus full-animation educational shorts)
Bob Clampett Productions(one toon for Republic Pictures, then TV Beany & Cecil toons, released by UA outside US)
Jerry Fairbanks ("Speaking Of Animals" and bits and pieces elsewhere)
Impossible Pictures(JERKY JOURNEYS for Republic Pictures)
Grantray-Lawrence (two theatrical shorts for Lantz)
Format Films (dual-use RR's for Depatie-Freleng/Warners, plus those 3 Daffys for Warners, at least 1 indie short)
George Pal (stop-motion Puppetoons)
Hanna-Barbera (Loopy de Loop theatricals for Columbia)
Kinex (stop-motion animation)
Ted Eshbaugh Productions
McCrory Studios (Scarfoot/John McCrory)
Kahne / Monte Collins
Charley Bowers (stop-motion animation)
Boyd Lavero Studios
Romer Grey (completed animation known to exist but never filmed)
Tat's Tales (some reels of film MAY still exist)
Earnest Andersson studio (one tiny sample known to exist)
Mayfair (Skippy cartoons, I don't know of any in existence...)

Audio Cinema
Jamison Handy Organization
Kling Productions(did the Drive-in ads).


Silent only:
International Film Service
Winkler(Krazy Kats by Bill Nolan, Oswalds by Harman, Freleng, Ising, etc.)
Pat Sullivan
Mutt and Jeff Films
Bray Productions

[doctoon]

And leave us not forget the John and Faith Hubley Studio.

[Ray Pointer]

The Golden area one:

Warner Bros.
Walt Disney Studios
Walter Lanz
MGM
DePatie-Freleng Enterprises
TerryToons
Fleischer Studios
Famous Studio
Pat Sullivan Cartoons
UPA
Columbia Pitcures
Hugh Harman Productions
Ub Iwerks studio
Hanna-Barbera (Most of there cartoons were for TV)

Black and White only:
Mutt and Jeff Films
Bray Productions
International Film Service
Van Beuren

I am now asking is this the complete list of classic cartoons studios or is some on missing from my list, but also note I am only interested i cartoon studios from USA.


While Columbia contracted with the Charles Mintz Studio, they did not operate a cartoon studio directly under their name. When they acquired the Mintz operation, the name was changed to Screen Gems. Screen Gems became Columbia's television division in 1948 when they began distributing
the UPA product.

Hanna-Barbera and Depatie-Freleng are not in what we consider the GOLDEN ERA. While Depatie-Freleng revitalized theatrical cartoons in the 1960s and 70s, they were also engaged in a lot of television work as well. The Golden Era of theatrical animation ceased in 1955.

I'm puzzled as to the segregation of the black and white list since all of the studios produced black and white cartoons until the mid 1930s. If you meant to include studios of the silent era, then there was also the Barre' Studio, which was actually the first commercial animaiton studio opening months before Bray's. There was the Pat Sullivan Studio for Felix the Cat. Before 1929, Fleischer Studios was known as Out of the Inkwell Films, Inc.
And Mutt and Jeff was produced first under Bowers/Barre' and later Associated Animators under Dick Huemer.

[Ray Pointer]

Here is a few more for you

Ted Eshbaugh Productions
(Animated) Cartoon Films LTD.
Scarfoot/John McCrory
Les Elton Cartoons
Audio Cinema
Jamison Handy Organization

Other studios-(all film footage is possibly lost)
Romer Grey
Tat's Tales

The Jam Handy Orgnaization (not Jamison Handy Organization) had an animation division for the production of industrial and promotional films. While many of them had some limited theatrical distribution, they were not a cartoon production studio. Their primary business was the promotion of commerce and education, and many times they subcontracted to theatrical cartoon studios, or hired theatrical animators between jobs.

[Alf]

Grantray-Lawrence (two theatrical shorts for Lantz)



Weren´t actually THREE shorts: FLEA FOR TWO, BROADWAY BOW-WOWS and DIG THAT DOG?

[Sogturtle]

Weren´t actually THREE shorts: FLEA FOR TWO, BROADWAY BOW-WOWS and DIG THAT DOG?

Alf~

"Broadway Bow-wows" and "Dig That Dog" were the Grantray cartoons. While "Flea For Two" was a bonafide (or in this case "bone-afide":p ) Lantz cartoon with directing by DON Patterson and story by Michael Maltese.

[Alf]

Thanks for the info, Sogturtle -I guess I got my Pattersons (Ray and Don) crossed.

[dandu]

What studios made Jerry the Troublesome Tyke (1920s British cartoon) as well as Steve the racehorse (late 1930s also British)?

[frizfrelengfan]

David Hand (former Disney director) ran GB Studios in England, which produced the "Animaland" cartoons in the early '40's.

[Sogturtle]

David Hand (former Disney director) ran GB Studios in England, which produced the "Animaland" cartoons in the early '40's.

Frizfrelengfan and all~

Yeah that's quite true, and it brings up the whole question of WHAT really qualifies as an American cartoon??!?!:confused: Does the director being from the USA make it an American cartoon, as in the already cited case of David Hand, or of George Moreno and his "Bubbles And Squeek" cartoons made in Britain. BUT those were all British financed, so the ownership was British...
Or there's the case of the numerous cartoons directed by Gene Deitch but made mostly in the (former) Czechoslavokia and with American money and for American theatrical (MGM or Paramount) or TV release (Paramount or King Features)... Then the strangest of all, the case of the C.I.A. secretly funding the making of the feature "Animal Farm" by the English Halas and Batchelor... THAT was definitely American-funded BUT directed and made totally by an English animation studio...

Then there's the mega-rare instances of non-American companies making cartoons from American-written stories, and that were released by American companies, specifically in the case of several DePatie-Freleng cartoons.

[Fibber Fox]

Frizfrelengfan and all~

Yeah that's quite true, and it brings up the whole question of WHAT really qualifies as an American cartoon??!?!

Old Glory? ;)

I think the topic was classic theatrical studios, Sog. I don't consider Gene Dietch's studio to be American. Nor David Hand's. Geography takes care of that. Dates would take care of the "classic" designation.

Personally, I like to think of cartoons knowing no international boundaries, as they are beloved the world over. I'll concede Bugs is American because of his accent, though :)

FF

[Sogturtle]

Old Glory? ;)

I think the topic was classic theatrical studios, Sog. I don't consider Gene Dietch's studio to be American. Nor David Hand's. Geography takes care of that. Dates would take care of the "classic" designation.

Personally, I like to think of cartoons knowing no international boundaries, as they are beloved the world over. I'll concede Bugs is American because of his accent, though :)

FF

Fibber Fox~

Yeah the topic was classic cartoon studios, but the original poster included Hanna-Barbera (the studio) and they DID make that big bunch of Loopy De Loops solely for Columbia theatrical release. And no, Deitch's studioS were not American, BUT the writing and directing were, as were the financing and releasing and most importantly the ownership. They really classify as "runaway" American productions made "on the cheap" in other countries, very much like the abhored Larry Doyle shorts for Warners.

So from my vantage point the only thing to quibble about is the dating, and if you include those theatrical HB's and the DePatie-Frelengs, then the Deitch ones fall in just as well.:bugs2:

[WoodpeckerWoody]

Yes we are foucsing theatrical animation shorts studios in America. And first of all i am rather happy with the reactions that I have got.

So to to navigete it futher what we are after.

Then I would say every cartoon studio should be establish in USA or by USA Citizen. Every cartoon studio that is not establish in USA and not by USA citizen should never been put on the list and also if none USA citizen worked one the studio.
Also we should never put on the list cartoon studios that only do/did computer animations. That is the reason I never puted Pixar on it in first place. But I puted De-ferlang and HB studios on the list becouse it is so close to the other studios that I mentoned in the original post.
And for the stop motion if a studio only made stop motion cartoons then it should be remind especially.

[Sogturtle]

Yes we are foucsing theatrical animation shorts studios in America. And first of all i am rather happy with the reactions that I have got.

So to to navigete it futher what we are after.

Then I would say every cartoon studio should be establish in USA or by USA Citizen. Every cartoon studio that is not establish in USA and not by USA citizen should never been put on the list and also if none USA citizen worked one the studio.
Also we should never put on the list cartoon studios that only do/did computer animations. That is the reason I never puted Pixar on it in first place. But I puted De-ferlang and HB studios on the list becouse it is so close to the other studios that I mentoned in the original post.
And for the stop motion if a studio only made stop motion cartoons then it should be remind especially.

WoodpeckerWoody~

I went through my list and denoted which studios made ONLY stop-motion cartoons for you.:)

[WoodpeckerWoody]

Thanks, I am more found of the hand drawnings but I think are is a pepole that is probably more for stop motions.