Gentle Backgrounds

Hanna-Barbera had three background artists after the studio opened in 1957, one veteran and two relative newcomers to animation. The veteran was Robert Gentle who, like Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera, worked at the MGM cartoon studio for the entirety of its 20-year life, excepting military service.

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Dogs in Spacesuits and Trenchcoats

For every success story like AAP, which originally syndicated the Warner Bros. and Fleischer Popeye cartoons, there were other cartoon distributors which wallow in obscurity, their cartoons forgotten or unseen. One such company was run by Phil Davis.

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