Famous Studios
Famous Studio was the animation studio owned by Paramount Pictures after the company foreclosed on Fleischer Studios and ousted Max and David Flesicher in 1942.
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 of Walt Disney or Warner Brothers's films.
Major series started under the new management included:
- Baby Huey
- Casper the Friendly Ghost
- Herman and Catnip
- Little Lulu which was eventually replaced with an imitation called Little Audrey
In 1959, Paramount sold their film library and the copyrights to their established charcters to Harvey Comics. Unfortunately, their attempts at replacement character 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.