Animation in the 60's and 70's

television was invented in the 1920's with only 1 channel to show, when world war 2 was going on the television was shut off until around the 1950's around this time america was creating television animation. Hanna Barbera was the first major animator for american tv. she started out only providing animations for her own production company Hanna-barbera productions but when MGM closed the company down in 1957 she began producing for television only.

Some of the well known shows that she created were things such as the Ruff and Reddy show and the first run syndication entry the Huckleberry Hound show. in the 1960's the studio hit a stride with the first half an hour animated sitcom the Flintstones. The Flintstones were the first of several animated sitcoms along side The Jetsons, Topcat, and Johnny Quest.

Hanna-Barbera was also the genius behind the very successful Scooby-Doo series which was produced in 1969 to present day. In 1986 Scooby-Doo was cancelled and only aired the spin off of the characters as children in  ' a pup named scooby-doo'.

Most of the animations that were created took there audience ideas from Disneys success with children as the audience although a few cartoons still attracted the older audience with there hidden messages and political references such as the magic round-a-bout and the Flintstones which started out with an adult audience until later aiming towards children.

In 1990's cartoon network a cable tv channel aimed at children created a new channel called 'Boomerang'. The idea of this network was to air re-created animations from the 60's-70's which is why many young people still know of the old animation and have a lot of love towards them. Some of them were also re-created as films such as the magic roundabout. As well as animation being made into films some animations were made into realistic films such as Scooby-Doo and the Flintstone which had a hit with actors such as  John Goodman and Rick Moranis and Sarah Geller and Mr Bean Star Rowan Atkinson.