By 1957 the movie industry was reeling from television’s impact. Fewer and fewer movie cartoon shorts were being made. MGM discovered that the income from the re-release of an old Tom and Jerry ...

Hanna and Barbera's first MGM cartoon, Puss Gets the Boots ... and sell the new cartoons we were creating." In 1957, Hanna-Barbera formed their own production company and sold their first new ...

At MGM, he met William Hanna, where an Oscar-winning partnership was born. They formed Hanna-Barbera in 1957 and were directors into old age. Mr Lentz added: ‘Barbera’s cartoons were so good ...

Ed Benedict, 94, an animator who designed many famous cartoon characters including Fred ... back to Disney in the early ‘40s. He moved to MGM in the early 1950s and became lead designer and ...