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William Denby "Bill" Hanna (July 14, 1910 – March 22, 2001) was an American animator, director, producer, television director, television producer, and cartoon artist, whose movie and television cartoon characters entertained millions of fans worldwide for much of the 20th century. When he was a young child, Hanna's family moved frequently, but they settled in Compton, California, by 1919. There, Hanna became an Eagle Scout. Hanna graduated from Compton High School in 1928. He briefly attended Compton City College but dropped out at the onset of the Great Depression.After working odd jobs in the first months of the Depression, Hanna joined the Harman and Ising animation studio in 1930. During the 1930s, Hanna steadily gained skill and prominence while working on cartoons such as Captain and the Kids. In 1937, while working at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Hanna met Joseph Barbera. The two men began a collaboration that was at first best known for producing Tom and Jerry and live action films. In 1957, they co-founded Hanna-Barbera, which became the most successful television animation studio in the business, producing programs such as The Flintstones, The Huckleberry Hound Show, The Jetsons, Scooby-Doo, The Smurfs, and Yogi Bear. In 1967, Hanna–Barbera was sold to Taft Broadcasting for $12 million, but Hanna and Barbera remained heads of the company until 1991. At that time the studio was sold to Turner Broadcasting System, which in turn was merged with Time Warner, owners of Warner Bros., in 1996; Hanna and Barbera stayed on as advisors.Hanna and Barbera won seven Academy Awards and eight Emmy Awards. Their cartoons have become cultural icons, and their cartoon characters have appeared in other media such as films, books, and toys. Hanna–Barbera's shows have a global audience of over 300 million people and have been translated into more than 20 languages.
William Hanna
Tom Cat
for Tom Cat in Cartoon Network's 30th Anniversary Special
Suggested by ccarbe6062
This is how I’ll write a Cartoon Network 30th anniversary special: There will be four hosts of the special and Lebron James will be one of the hosts. Before the special begins, there will be footage that will be pre-taped before the special begins. There will be four studios that the hosts will reside in: The Warner Bros Animation studios, The Cartoon Network hotel (where the modern CN characters will live at), the Cartoon Network Studios at Burbank (where the classic CN characters will live at) and Williams Street in Atlanta (where the AS characters will reside). Each host has to try to take care of the characters and put everything in order where they try to cause trouble for one another in the WB Studios (since Looney Tunes, MGM and Hanna Barbera characters cause trouble for one another but get along later on) whereas the CN Hotel, CN studios in Burbank and Adult Swim characters are just chillin. Afterwards, the hosts and the cartoon characters that are outside of Burbank/LA try to get into the plane but the plane is bloated with a lot of cartoon characters.
