Hanna Barbera.

Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. was an American animation studio that dominated American television animation for nearly three decades in the mid-to-late 20th century.

The company was originally formed in 1957 by former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) animation directors William Hanna and Joseph Barbera (creators of Tom and Jerry) and live-action director George Sidney in partnership with Columbia Pictures' Screen Gems television division. Over the next four decades, the studio produced many successful animated television shows, including Huckleberry Hound, The Flintstones, Yogi Bear, Jonny Quest, Scooby-Doo, and The Smurfs amoung others.

The studio also produced several theatrical films, short subjects, telefims, specials and commercials, earning Hanna-Barbera eight Emmys, a Golden Globe Award, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, among other merits. In the mid 1980's, the company's fortunes began to decline the profitability of Saturday morning cartoons was eclipsed by weekday afternoon syndication. In late 1991, the company was purchased by Turner Broadcasting System, who used much of the H-B back catalog program its new channel, Cartoon Network. Both Hanna and Barbera went into semi-retirement after Turner purchased the company, continuing to serve as mentors and creative consultants.

During the mid-1990's, Hanna-Barbera began producing original programming for Cartoon Network, including Cartoon Cartoons shows such as Dexter's Laboratory, Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken and Powerpuff Girls. In 1996, Turner merged with Time Warner, and Hanna-Barbera became a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Animation. With William Hanna's death in 2001, the studio was absorbed into its parent, and the spinoff Cartoon Network Studios continued the projects of Cartoon Network output. Joseph Barbera continued to work with Warner Bros. Animation until his death in 2006.

Hanna-Barbera Productions currently exists as an in-name-only company used to market properties and  productions associated with the studio's "classic" works such as Yogi Bear, Scooby-Doo and Huckleberry Hound. The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences unveiled a bronze wall sculpture of Hanna and Barbera and their creations in 2005 honouring the duo's work in television and film.

Fred Quimby

Fred Quimby (Tom and Jerry)

Fred Quimby born on Saturday 31st of July 1886 and died Thursday 16th of September 1965  was an American cartoon producer, best known as producer of Tom and Jerry cartoons, for which he won seven Academy Awards. He was the film sales executive in charge of the Metro-Godwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, which included Tex Avery and the team of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, creators of Tom and Jerry.

Fred Quimby was born in Minneapolis, and started his career as a journalist. In 1907, he managed a film theatre in Missoula, Montana. Later, he worked at Pathe, rising to become a member of the board of directors before leaving in 1921 to become an independent producer. He was hired by the 20th centery fox in 1924 and then MGM in 1927 to head its short features department. In 1937, he was assigned to put together its animation department.

In 1939, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera presented him with their project for a series of cartoons featuring a cat and mouse. Fred Quimby approved, and the result was Puss Gets the Boot, which was nominated for an Academy Award. Initially he refused to pursue more Cat and Mouse cartoons after Puss Gets the Boot but success and money earnings that were from the cartoon he agreed to make Tom and Jerry and official cartoon for the MGM cartoon studio. As producer, Fred Quimby became a repeated recipient of the Academy Award for Animated Short Film for the Tom and Jerry films without inviting Hanna and Barbera onstage and his name became well known due to its prominence in the cartoon credits. Even though Fred Quimby had taken sole credit for approving and producing The Tom and Jerry series, he never actually worked on it. Besides Fred Quimby had a difficult relationship with animators even Hanna and Barbera. 

Fred Quimby retired from MGM in 1955, with Hanna and Barbera assuming his role as co-heads of the studio and taking over the production from the Tom and Jerry shorts. Despite the success of Hanna and Barbera MGM assumed that bringing in old cartoons got more money and MGM's cartoon division did not last long after; it was closed in 1957 but MGM still loved the Tom and Jerry shorts and saved the contracts for producing the shows even later allowing legendary animator Chuck Jones make a new series of Tom and Jerry, despite that Chuck Jones never worked for MGM. Fred Quimby died in Santa Monica, California in 1965 and was buried in Glendale.

Chuck Jones

Chuck Jones.

Chuck Jones born on September 21st 1912 and died on February 22nd 2002, was an animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer and director of animated films, most memorably for Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros. Cartoon studio. He directed many of the classic short animated cartoon's starting Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, the Road runner and Wile E. Coyote, Sylvester, Pepe Le Pew and a slew of other Warner characters. Three of these shorts were later induced into the National Film Registry. Chief among  Jones' other works was the famous "Hunting Trilogy" of Rabbit fire, Rabbit seasoning and Duck! Rabbit Duck! (1951-1953).

After his career ended at the Warner Bros. in 1962 he began to work for Metro-Godwyn-Mayer including a new series of Tom and Jerry shorts. He later started his own studio, Chuck Jones Productions, which created several one-shot specials, and periodically worked on Looney Tunes related works.

In Chuck Jones's time his produced many films and animated cartoon's the most famous ones were:

Tom and Jerry
Bugs Bunny
Daffy Duck and many more.

Through the 1980's and 1990's, Chuck Jones was painting cartoon and parody art, sold through animation galleries by his daughters company, Linda Jones Enterprises. Chuck Jones was the creative consultant and character designer for two Raggedy Ann animated specials and the first alvin and the chipmunks Christmas special "a chipmunk Christmas". He also created new characters for the internet based on his new character, Thomas Timberwolf   . He made a cameo appearance in the 1984 films Gremlins and directed the Buggy Bunny/Daffy Duck animated sequences that bookend Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990). Chuck Jones also directed animated sequences various features such as a lengthy sequence in the 1992 film Stay Tuned.