- The
Best of Hanna Barbera: Tunes from the Toons - The Best
Of Hanna-Barbera. Reissue of best-selling compilation featuring
the theme tunes & underscores from those classic &
much-loved TV cartoons that were first transmitted between
1958-1974, Scooby Doo, The Flintstones, Yogi Bear, Top Cat,
Huckleberry Hound, Dastardly & Mutley, Penelope Pitstop
& many others. 48 tracks
- The
Art of Hanna-Barbera : Fifty Years of Creativity - With
the revival of animation in Hollywood, this latest of Sennett's
books on movies is timely. Idea man William Hanna and artist
Joseph Barbera created Tom and Jerry at MGM, then through
revolutionary limited TV animation built today's thriving
"General Motors of animation," home of the Flintstones
and so many others. Reading like an official company history,
scooby doo full of praise for the men and their creations,
this is informative, upbeat, and impressive, with deep colors
on heavy paper. The simple Hanna-Barbera art is a bit spare
for these giant glossy pages, compared with the delicate detail
in Christopher Finch's The Art of Walt Disney (1973). But
having between two covers all the Hanna-Barbera characters,
series, features, and lore is a welcome event. Recommended
for art, media studies, and popular collections.
- Scooby
Doo, Where Are You! - The Complete First and Second Seasons
- Watching all the shows back-to-back reveals evolving complexity
in the scripts. Over time, Scooby-Doo's creators added multiple
bad guys in cahoots with major villains, and developed sub-plots,
backstories, and even appealing allies and friends of Mystery,
Inc., a traveling band of young debunkers of supernatural
phenomena. Riding around in their psychedelic Mystery Van,
preppie leader Fred and his friends--haughty Daphne, brainy
Velma, quasi-hippie Shaggy, and Shaggy's best pal, Scooby,
an excitable Great Dane--chase down and are chased by alleged
ghouls who generally turn out to be venal humans running various
scams. Included here is Scooby-Doo's premiere, "What
a Night for a Knight," in which the gang looks into the
disappearance of a noted archaeologist and end up in a "haunted"
museum. The fun "Go Away Ghost Ship" finds our heroes
helping a shipping company daunted by the apparent ghost of
pirate Red Beard, while the silly classic "A Tiki Scare
Is No Fair" concerns a Hawaiian vacation for Mystery,
Inc. disrupted by a witch doctor.
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