Famous Studio was the animation studio owned by Paramount Pictures after the company foreclosed on Fleischer Studios and ousted Max and Dave Fleischer in 1942. Animation is the technique in which each frame of a film or movie is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model unit (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result with a... The Paramount Pictures logo used from 1987 to 1995. ... Fleischer Studios, Inc. ... Max Fleischer (July 19, 1883–September 11, 1972) was an important pioneer in the development of the animated cartoon. ... David Fleischer ( July 14, 1894 - June 25, 1979) was a German-American animator, film director, and film producer, best known as a co-owner of Fleischer Studios with his older brother Max Fleischer. ... This article is about the year. ...

Although the studio still carried much of the staff from the previous regime, animation fans and historians note that its films soon diverged from the previous style. Many of them deride the company style for being being highly formualic and largely oriented towards a children's audience with none of the artistic ambition or sophistication that the previous management strove for. Animation is the technique in which each frame of a film or movie is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model unit (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result with a...

Continuing seires from the Fleischer period included:

• Popeye the Sailor
• Superman
• Screen Songs (resurrected in 1947)

Major series started under the new management included: Popeye from an opening still from one of his cartoon shorts, with his characteristic corncob pipe and single good eye. ... This image of Superman appeared at the beginning of each of the cartoons. ... 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

• Baby Huey
• Casper the Friendly Ghost
• Herman and Katnip
• Little Lulu (which was eventually replaced with an imitation called Little Audrey)

In 1955, Paramount sold most of their pre-1951 shorts and cartoons, except for Popeye and Superman, to U.M. & M. T.V. Corp. for television distribution. The Popeye cartoons were acquired by Associated Artists Productions (a.a.p.), and the Superman library went to Motion Pictures for Television, producers of the Superman television series. Baby Huey, a gigantic infant duckling, was a creation of Paramount Pictures Famous Studios in the early 1950s, and later became a Harvey Comics title. ... Casper the Friendly Ghost is the main character of the Famous Studios theatrical animated cartoon series of the same name. ... Herman and Katnip are a duo of cartoon characters (Herman the mouse and Katnip the cat), who have appeared both separately and together in Famous Studios cartoons from 1943 to 1959. ... Little Lulu is a comic strip character created by Marjorie Henderson Buell. ... Little Audrey is a fictional character, appearing in Famous Studios cartoons from 1948 to 1959. ... 1955 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Associated Artists Productions was a distributor of theatrical features and short subjects for television founded in 1953 and headed by Elliott Hyman. ...

In 1959, Paramount sold their remaining cartoon film library and the copyrights to their established characters to Harvey Comics. Unfortunately, their attempts at replacement characters proved unsuccessful. By the end in 1967, even the hiring of the promising young Ralph Bakshi seemed to only to give a chance for some abortive experimental subjects before attending to his primary task of closing the studio down. 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Harvey Comics (also known as Harvey Publications) was an American comic book publisher, founded by Alfred Harvey. ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ralph Bakshi (born October 29, 1938, in Haifa, Israel) is a director of animation and occasionally live-action films. ...