Filmation, the Glossary
Filmation Associates was an American production company that produced animation and live-action programming for television from 1963 until 1989.[1]
Table of Contents
197 relations: Adam West, Alan Oppenheimer, American Broadcasting Company, American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Animated series, Animation director, Animation in the United States in the television era, Archie Comics, Ark II, Associated Press, Batman, Batman (TV series), Betacam, Bill Cosby, Blackstar (TV series), Blend word, Bob Burns III, Book, Bozo the Clown, BraveStarr, Broadcast syndication, Broadcasting & Cable, Bud Collyer, Bugs Bunny, Burt Ward, California, Captain Marvel (DC Comics), CBS Media Ventures, CBS Studios, Charles Nelson Reilly, Charlie Adler, Chuck Jones, Chuck Menville, Columbia Pictures, Computer animation, Corporation, Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovie Goolies, Dallas McKennon, DC Comics, DC Entertainment, Disc jockey, DreamWorks Animation, DreamWorks Classics, Ed Asner, Ed Gilbert, Ed Solomon, Electric guitar, Emmy Awards, Entertainment Rights, F Troop, ... Expand index (147 more) »
- 1969 mergers and acquisitions
- 1981 mergers and acquisitions
- 1989 disestablishments in California
- American companies disestablished in 1989
- Mass media companies disestablished in 1989
- Mass media companies established in 1962
Adam West
William West Anderson (September 19, 1928 – June 9, 2017), known as Adam West, was an American actor.
Alan Oppenheimer
Alan Oppenheimer (born April 23, 1930) is an American actor.
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American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company.
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The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) is an American not-for-profit performance-rights organization (PRO) that collectively licenses the public performance rights of its members' musical works to venues, broadcasters, and digital streaming services (music stores).
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Animated series
An animated series is a set of animated television works with a common title, usually related to one another.
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Animation director
An animation director is the director in charge of all aspects of the animation process during the production of an animated or television film, or an animated segment for a live action film or television show.
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Animation in the United States in the television era
Animation in the United States in the television era was a period in the history of American animation that slowly set in with the decline of theatrical animated shorts and the popularization of television animation that started in the late 1950s, reached its peak during the 1970s, and ended around the mid-1980s.
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Archie Comics
Archie Comic Publications, Inc., is an American comic book publisher headquartered in Pelham, New York.
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Ark II
Ark II is an American live-action science fiction television series, aimed at children, that aired on CBS from September 11 to December 18, 1976, (with reruns continuing through November 13, 1977 and reruns returning from September 16, 1978, through August 25, 1979) as part of its weekend line-up.
Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
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Batman
Batman is a superhero in American comic books published by DC Comics.
Batman (TV series)
Batman is an American live-action television series based on the DC Comics character of the same name.
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Betacam
Betacam is a family of half-inch professional videocassette products developed by Sony in 1982.
Bill Cosby
William Henry Cosby Jr. (born July 12, 1937) is an American former comedian, actor, spokesman, and media personality.
Blackstar (TV series)
Blackstar is an American animated science fantasy television series, produced in 1981 by Lou Scheimer and Norm Prescott for Filmation.
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Blend word
In linguistics, a blend—also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau—is a word formed, usually intentionally, by combining the sounds and meanings of two or more words.
Bob Burns III
Bob Burns (born May 12, 1935) is an American actor, consultant, producer, archivist and historian of props, costumes, and other paraphernalia from science fiction, fantasy, and horror motion pictures.
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Book
A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images.
Bozo the Clown
Bozo the Clown, sometimes billed as "Bozo, The World's Most Famous Clown", is a clown character created for children's entertainment, widely popular in the second half of the 20th century.
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BraveStarr
BraveStarr is an American Space Western animated series that aired 65 episodes from September 1987 to February 1988 in syndication.
Broadcast syndication
Broadcast syndication is the practice of content owners leasing the right to broadcast television shows or radio programs to multiple television stations or radio stations, without having an official broadcast network to air on.
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Broadcasting & Cable
Broadcasting & Cable (B&C, or Broadcasting+Cable) is a monthly telecommunications industry trade magazine published by Future US.
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Bud Collyer
Bud Collyer (born Clayton Johnson Heermance Jr., June 18, 1908 – September 8, 1969) was an American radio actor and announcer and game show host who became one of the nation's first major television game show stars.
Bugs Bunny
Bugs Bunny is an American cartoon character created in the late 1930s at Warner Bros. Cartoons (originally Leon Schlesinger Productions) and voiced originally by Mel Blanc.
Burt Ward
Burt Ward (born Bert John Gervis Jr.; July 6, 1945) is an American actor, animal welfare activist and businessman.
California
California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.
Captain Marvel (DC Comics)
Captain Marvel, also known as Shazam is a superhero in American comic books originally published by Fawcett Comics and currently published by DC Comics.
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CBS Media Ventures, Inc. (formerly CBS Paramount Domestic Television and CBS Television Distribution) is the television broadcast syndication arm of CBS Studios, a division of the CBS Entertainment Group, in turn a division of Paramount Global, founded on 2006 by CBS Corporation from a merger of CBS Paramount Domestic Television and King World Productions.
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CBS Studios
CBS Studios, Inc. is an American television production company which is a subsidiary of the CBS Entertainment Group unit of Paramount Global. Filmation and CBS Studios are television production companies of the United States.
Charles Nelson Reilly
Charles Nelson Reilly (January 13, 1931 – May 25, 2007) was an American actor, comedian, director, and drama teacher known for his comedic roles on stage, film, and television.
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Charlie Adler
Charles Michael Adler (born October 2, 1956) is an American voice actor and voice director.
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Chuck Jones
Charles Martin Jones (September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002) was an American animator, painter, voice actor and filmmaker, best known for his work with Warner Bros. Cartoons on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of shorts.
Chuck Menville
Charles David Menville (April 17, 1940 – June 15, 1992) was an American animator and writer for television.
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Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., commonly known as Columbia Pictures or simply Columbia, is an American film production and distribution company that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures, which is one of the Big Five studios and a subsidiary of the multinational conglomerate Sony Group Corporation.
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Computer animation
Computer animation is the process used for digitally generating moving images. The more general term computer-generated imagery (CGI) encompasses both still images and moving images, while computer animation refers to moving images.
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Corporation
A corporation is an organization—usually a group of people or a company—authorized by the state to act as a single entity (a legal entity recognized by private and public law as "born out of statute"; a legal person in a legal context) and recognized as such in law for certain purposes.
Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovie Goolies
Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovie Goolies is a 1972 animated one-hour TV-movie (with a live-action segment near the end) that was aired on December 16 as an episode of the anthology series The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie.
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Dallas McKennon
Dallas Raymond McKennon (July 19, 1919 – July 14, 2009), sometimes credited as Dal McKennon, was an American film, television and voice actor, who had a career lasting over 50 years.
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DC Comics
DC Comics, Inc. (doing business as DC) is an American comic book publisher and the flagship unit of DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery.
DC Entertainment
DC Entertainment is an American entertainment company that was founded in September 2009 and is based in Burbank, California.
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Disc jockey
A disc jockey, more commonly abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays recorded music for an audience.
DreamWorks Animation
DreamWorks Animation LLC (DWA) (also known as DreamWorks Animation Studios or simply DreamWorks) is an American animation studio owned by Universal Pictures, a division of NBCUniversal, which is itself a subsidiary of Comcast. Filmation and DreamWorks Animation are American animation studios.
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DreamWorks Classics
DreamWorks Classics is an American entertainment company owned by DreamWorks Animation, a subsidiary of Universal Pictures, a division of NBCUniversal, which in turn is a subsidiary of Comcast. Filmation and DreamWorks Classics are American animation studios.
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Ed Asner
Eddie Asner (November 15, 1929 – August 29, 2021) was an American actor.
Ed Gilbert
Ed Gilbert (born Edmund Francis Giesbert, June 29, 1931 – May 8, 1999) was an American actor, with extensive credits in both live-action roles and voice work in animation, although he was better known for the latter.
Ed Solomon
Edward James Solomon (born September 15, 1960) is an American filmmaker.
Electric guitar
An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar.
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Emmy Awards
The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international television industry.
Entertainment Rights
Entertainment Rights PLC (formerly known as Sleepy Kids PLC and SKD Media PLC) was a British multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate that specialized in TV shows and cartoons, children's media, films, and distribution.
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F Troop
F Troop is a satirical American television Western sitcom about U.S. soldiers and American Indians in the Wild West during the 1860s.
Fabulous Funnies
Fabulous Funnies is a 1978–79 American Saturday morning animated TV series produced by Filmation.
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Fantastic Voyage (TV series)
Fantastic Voyage is an American animated science fiction television series based on the famous 1966 film directed by Richard Fleischer.
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Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (often referred to simply as Fat Albert) is an American animated television series created, produced, and hosted (in live action bookends) by comedian Bill Cosby, who also lent his voice to a number of characters, including Fat Albert himself.
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Flash Gordon
Flash Gordon is the protagonist of a space adventure comic strip created and originally drawn by Alex Raymond.
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Flash Gordon: The Greatest Adventure of All
Flash Gordon: The Greatest Adventure of All is a 1982 animated television film produced by Filmation and written by Samuel A. Peeples.
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Florence, Alabama
Florence is a city in, and the county seat of, Lauderdale County, Alabama, United States, in the state's northwestern corner, and had a population of 40,184 in the 2020 census.
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Forrest Tucker
Forrest Meredith Tucker (February 12, 1919 – October 25, 1986) was an American actor in both movies and television who appeared in nearly a hundred films.
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Fraidy Cat (TV series)
Fraidy Cat is a 1975 comical children's cartoon show that originally appeared as a segment on Filmation's short-lived ABC series Uncle Croc's Block.
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Frame rate
Frame rate, most commonly expressed in or FPS, is typically the frequency (rate) at which consecutive images (frames) are captured or displayed.
Frank Welker
Franklin Wendell Welker (born March 12, 1946) is an American voice actor.
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Fredericksburg, Virginia
Fredericksburg is an independent city in Virginia, United States.
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George DiCenzo
George Ralph DiCenzo (April 21, 1940 – August 9, 2010) was an American actor, and one-time associate producer for Dark Shadows.
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Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters is a 1984 American supernatural comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.
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Ghostbusters (1986 TV series)
Ghostbusters (later called Filmation's Ghostbusters) is a 1986 American animated television series created by Filmation and distributed by Tribune Entertainment, serving as the sequel to Filmation's 1975 live-action television show The Ghost Busters.
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Gilligan's Planet
Gilligan's Planet is an American Saturday morning animated series produced by Filmation and MGM/UA Television which aired during the 1982–1983 season on CBS.
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Groovie Goolies
Groovie Goolies is an American animated television show that had its original run Saturday mornings on CBS between 1970 and 1972.
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Haim Saban
Haim Saban (חיים סבן; born October 15, 1944) is an Israeli-American media proprietor, investor, musical composer and producer of records, film, and television.
Hal Sutherland
Harold H. "Hal" Sutherland (July 1, 1929 – January 16, 2014) was an American animator and painter who began his career as a Disney animator in 1954 working on Sleeping Beauty, Lady and the Tramp, Peter Pan and the last theatrical short that featured Donald Duck.
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Hallmark Cards
Hallmark Cards, Inc. is a privately held, family-owned American company based in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Happily Ever After (1989 film)
Happily Ever After (originally released as Snow White: The Adventure Continues in the Philippines) is a 1989 animated musical fantasy film directed by John Howley, and starring the voices of Dom DeLuise, Malcolm McDowell, Phyllis Diller, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Ed Asner, Sally Kellerman, Irene Cara, Carol Channing and Tracey Ullman.
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He-Man
He-Man is a superhero and the protagonist of the sword and planet Masters of the Universe franchise, which includes a toy line, several animated television series, comic books, and a feature film.
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (often referred to simply as He-Man) is an American animated television series produced by Filmation based on Mattel's toy line Masters of the Universe. The show was one of the most popular animated shows of the 1980s. It made its television debut in September 1983 and ran until 1985, consisting of two seasons of 65 episodes each. Filmation and He-Man and the Masters of the Universe are Westinghouse Broadcasting.
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Heckle and Jeckle
Heckle and Jeckle are postwar animated cartoon characters created by Paul Terry, originally produced at his own Terrytoons animation studio and released through 20th Century Fox.
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Hero High
Hero High was a 1981–1982 cartoon and live action series created by Filmation that aired as part of NBC's The Kid Super Power Hour with Shazam! It was about a high school where young superheroes were taught how to use their powers and fight crime.
Hordak
Hordak is a fictional demonic character in the Masters of the Universe franchise who opposes She-Ra and He-Man, as well as the franchise's main villain, Skeletor, to whom he was once a mentor, and the cause of the latter's ambition and pursuits of evil.
Howard Morris
Howard Jerome Morris (September 4, 1919 – May 21, 2005) was an American actor, comedian, and director.
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Intellectual property
Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect.
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Jane Webb
Jane Karyl Webb (August 13, 1925 – March 30, 2010) was an American film, radio, and voice actress, best known for her work on Filmation's cartoons.
Jason of Star Command
Jason of Star Command is a 1978–79 live action television series by Filmation.
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Jesus
Jesus (AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and many other names and titles, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader.
John Erwin
John Lee Erwin (born December 5, 1936) is an American voice actor best known for voicing He-Man, Reggie Mantle, and Morris the Cat.
Journey Back to Oz
Journey Back To Oz is a 1972 American animated adventure musical fantasy film produced by Filmation.
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (TV series)
Journey to the Center of the Earth is an American science fiction Saturday-morning cartoon, consisting of 17 episodes, each running 30 minutes.
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Jump cut
A jump cut is a cut in film editing that breaks a single continuous sequential shot of a subject into two parts, with a piece of footage removed to create the effect of jumping forward in time.
June Foray
June Foray (born June Lucille Forer; September 18, 1917 – July 26, 2017) was an American voice actress and radio personality, best known as the voice of such animated characters as Rocky the Flying Squirrel, Natasha Fatale, Nell Fenwick, Lucifer from Disney's Cinderella, Cindy Lou Who, Jokey Smurf, Granny from the Warner Bros.
L'Oréal
L'Oréal S.A. is a French multinational personal care company headquartered in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, with a registered office in Paris.
Larry Harmon Pictures
Larry Harmon Pictures was the production company of Larry Harmon, who had acquired the rights to the characters Bozo the Clown. Filmation and Larry Harmon Pictures are television production companies of the United States.
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Larry Storch
Lawrence Samuel Storch (January 8, 1923 – July 8, 2022) was an American actor and comedian known for his comic television roles, including voice-over work for cartoon shows such as Mr.
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Lassie (1954 TV series)
Lassie is an American television series that follows the adventures of a female Rough Collie dog named Lassie and her companions, both human and animal.
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Lassie's Rescue Rangers
Lassie's Rescue Rangers is an animated television series produced by Filmation and featuring Lassie, running from 1972 to 1973.
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Laverne Harding
Emily Laverne Harding (October 10, 1905 – September 25, 1984) was an American animator and cartoonist.
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Len Janson
Len Janson is an American writer and director whose career in animated cartoons and live-action motion pictures spanned several decades beginning in the 1960s.
Limited animation
Limited animation is a process in the overall technique of traditional animation that reuses frames of character animation.
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Linda Gary
Linda Gary (born Linda Gary Dewoskin, November 4, 1944 – October 5, 1995) was an American actress.
Live action
Live action is a form of cinematography or videography that uses photography instead of animation.
Looney Tunes
Looney Tunes is an American animated franchise produced and distributed by Warner Bros. It began as a series of short films that originally ran from 1930 to 1969, along with its partner series Merrie Melodies, during the golden age of American animation.
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Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.
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Lou Scheimer
Louis Scheimer (October 19, 1928 – October 17, 2013) was an American producer and voice actor who was one of the original founders of Filmation.
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Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod
The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS), also known as the Missouri Synod, is an orthodox, traditional, confessional Lutheran denomination in the United States.
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M*A*S*H
M*A*S*H (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) is an American media franchise consisting of a series of novels, a film, several television series, plays, and other properties, and based on the semi-autobiographical fiction of Richard Hooker.
Marx Brothers
The Marx Brothers were an American family comedy act that was successful in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in 14 motion pictures from 1905 to 1949.
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Mattel
Mattel, Inc. is an American multinational toy manufacturing and entertainment company founded in Los Angeles by Harold Matson and the husband-and-wife duo of Ruth and Elliot Handler in January 1945 and headquartered in El Segundo, California.
Mel Blanc
Melvin Jerome Blanc (born Blank; May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989) was an American voice actor and radio personality whose career spanned over 60 years.
Melendy Britt
Melendy Britt is an American actress who has been active in television and voice acting since the 1970s.
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, commonly shortened to MGM), is an American media company specializing in film and television production and distribution based in Beverly Hills, California.
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MGM Animation/Visual Arts
MGM Animation/Visual Arts was an American animation studio established in 1962 by animation director/producer Chuck Jones, producer Les Goldman and executive Walter Bien as Sib Tower 12 Productions. Filmation and MGM Animation/Visual Arts are 1962 establishments in California, American animation studios, American companies established in 1962, Defunct companies based in Greater Los Angeles and mass media companies established in 1962.
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Mighty Mouse
Mighty Mouse is an American animated character created by the Terrytoons studio for 20th Century Fox.
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Mission: Impossible (1966 TV series)
Mission: Impossible is an American espionage television series that aired on CBS from September 1966 to March 1973, which was financed and filmed by Desilu Productions.
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Moiré pattern
In mathematics, physics, and art, moiré patterns or moiré fringes are large-scale interference patterns that can be produced when a partially opaque ruled pattern with transparent gaps is overlaid on another similar pattern.
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Mort Weisinger
Mortimer Weisinger (April 25, 1915 – May 7, 1978) was an American magazine and comic book editor best known for editing DC Comics' Superman during the mid-1950s to 1960s, in the Silver Age of comic books.
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National Association of Broadcasters
The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) is a trade association and lobby group representing the interests of commercial and non-commercial over-the-air radio and television broadcasters in the United States.
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NBC
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.
Newspaper Enterprise Association
The Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) is an editorial column and comic strip newspaper syndication service based in the United States and established in 1902.
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Norm Prescott
Norman Zachary Prescott (born Pransky; January 31, 1927 – July 2, 2005) was co-founder and executive producer at Filmation Associates, an animation studio he created with veteran animator Lou Scheimer.
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NTSC
NTSC (from National Television Standards Committee) is the first American standard for analog television, published in 1941.
Oliver Twist (1974 film)
Oliver Twist is a 1974 American animated adventure musical drama film directed by Hal Sutherland that is based on Charles Dickens's 1838 novel of the same name.
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One Hundred and One Dalmatians
One Hundred and One Dalmatians (also known as 101 Dalmatians) is a 1961 American animated adventure comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions with distribution by Buena Vista Distribution.
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Orchestration
Orchestration is the study or practice of writing music for an orchestra (or, more loosely, for any musical ensemble, such as a concert band) or of adapting music composed for another medium for an orchestra.
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PAL
Phase Alternating Line (PAL) is a colour encoding system for analog television.
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation, commonly known as Paramount Pictures or simply Paramount, is an American film and television production and distribution company and the namesake subsidiary of Paramount Global.
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Paramount Television
The first incarnation of Paramount Television was as the television production division of the American film studio Paramount Pictures, until it changed its name to CBS Paramount Television on January 17, 2006. Filmation and Paramount Television are television production companies of the United States.
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Pat Fraley
Pat Fraley is an American voice actor and voice-over teacher, known as the voice of Krang, Casey Jones, Baxter Stockman and numerous other characters in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated television series and voiced Falcon in the 2003 Stuart Little animated television series.
Peter Cullen
Peter Claver Cullen (born July 28, 1941) is a Canadian voice actor.
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Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.
Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night
Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night is a 1987 American animated fantasy adventure film that was released on December 25, 1987, by New World Pictures.
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Pinocchio in Outer Space
Pinocchio in Outer Space is a 1965 Belgian-American animated science-fantasy film which sets Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio character on a rocketship adventure.
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Pop music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Popeye
Popeye the Sailor is a fictional cartoon character created by Elzie Crisler Segar.
Portsmouth Daily Times
Portsmouth Daily Times is a morning newspaper in Scioto County, Ohio with a print circulation of about 10,000.
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Production company
A production company, production house, production studio, or a production team is a studio that creates works in the fields of performing arts, new media art, film, television, radio, comics, interactive arts, video games, websites, music, and video.
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Pseudonym
A pseudonym or alias is a fictitious name that a person assumes for a particular purpose, which differs from their original or true name (orthonym).
Ray Ellis
Ray Ellis (July 28, 1923 – October 27, 2008) was an American record producer, arranger, conductor, and saxophonist.
Raymond Leblanc
Raymond Leblanc (22 May 1915 – 21 March 2008) was a Belgian comic book publisher, film director and film producer, best known for publishing works such as The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé and Blake and Mortimer by Edgar P. Jacobs.
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Reddi-Wip
Reddi-Wip is an American brand of sweetened whipped cream propelled from its container by nitrous oxide.
Reseda, Los Angeles
Reseda is a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California.
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Robin (character)
Robin is the alias of several superheroes appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.
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Rod Rocket
Rod Rocket is the first animated cartoon with production credited to Filmation, debuting in syndication in 1963.
Rotoscoping
Rotoscoping is an animation technique that animators use to trace over motion picture footage, frame by frame, to produce realistic action.
Rudd Weatherwax
Ruddell Bird "Rudd" Weatherwax (September 23, 1907 – February 25, 1985) was an American actor, animal trainer, and breeder.
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Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1970 TV series)
Sabrina the Teenage Witch (titled Sabrina and the Groovie Goolies or The Sabrina Comedy Hour and promotionally referred to as The Sabrina the Teenage Witch Show or The Sabrina Comedy Show) is an American animated television series produced by Filmation that aired on CBS during Saturday mornings from 1970 to 1974.
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Saturday-morning cartoon
"Saturday-morning cartoon" is a colloquial term for the original animated series and live-action programming that was typically scheduled on Saturday and Sunday mornings in the United States on the "Big Three" television networks.
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Scared Straight!
Scared Straight! is a 1978 American documentary directed by Arnold Shapiro.
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Science fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.
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Scooby-Doo
Scooby-Doo is an American media franchise owned by Warner Bros. Entertainment and created in 1969 by writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears through their animated series, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, for Hanna-Barbera (which was absorbed into Warner Bros. Animation in 2001).
Screen time
Screen time is the amount of time spent using a device with a screen such as a smartphone, computer, television, video game console, or a tablet.
Serial (radio and television)
In television and radio programming, a serial is a show that has a continuing plot that unfolds in a sequential episode-by-episode fashion.
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Shazam! (TV series)
Shazam! is an American superhero television series that was produced for Saturday Mornings by Filmation (the studio's first non-animated series), based on the superhero Captain Marvel, now known as Shazam, of Fawcett Comics' comic book series Whiz Comics (now owned by DC Comics).
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She-Ra: Princess of Power
She-Ra: Princess of Power is an American animated series produced in 1985 by Filmation. Filmation and She-Ra: Princess of Power are Westinghouse Broadcasting.
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Shuki Levy
Shuki Levy (שוקי לוי; born June 3, 1947) is an Israeli-American music composer and television producer.
Snow White
"Snow White" is a German fairy tale, first written down in the early 19th century.
Space Academy
Space Academy is an American science fiction television series produced by Filmation that originally aired Saturday mornings on the CBS television network, from September 10 to December 17, 1977.
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Star Trek: The Animated Series
Star Trek: The Animated Series (TAS) is an American animated science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry.
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Sugar, Sugar
"Sugar, Sugar" is a song written by Jeff Barry and Andy Kim, produced by Barry and recorded by The Archies, a fictional bubblegum pop band from Archie Comics.
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Superman
Superman is a superhero who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics.
Susan Blu
Susan Blu, better known as Sue Blu, is an American voice-actress, voice-director, and casting-director in American and Canadian cinema and television.
Synthesizer
A synthesizer (also synthesiser, or simply synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals.
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia.
Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle
Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle is an American animated series created by the Filmation studio for Saturday mornings on CBS, starting in 1976.
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Ted Knight
Ted Knight (born Tadeusz Wladyslaw Konopka; December 7, 1923August 26, 1986) was an American actor known for playing the comedic roles of Ted Baxter in The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Henry Rush in Too Close for Comfort and Judge Elihu Smails in Caddyshack.
Telecine
Telecine is the process of transferring film into video and is performed in a color suite.
TelePrompTer Corporation
__notoc__ TelePrompTer Corporation was an American media company that existed from approximately 1950 until 1981. Filmation and TelePrompTer Corporation are Defunct mass media companies of the United States and Westinghouse Broadcasting.
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Television advertisement
A television advertisement (also called a commercial, spot, break, advert, or ad) is a span of television programming produced and paid for by an organization.
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Television broadcaster
A television broadcaster or television network is a telecommunications network for the distribution of television content, where a central operation provides programming to many television stations, pay television providers or, in the United States, multichannel video programming distributors.
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Terrytoons
Terrytoons was an American animation studio headquartered in New Rochelle, New York, that produced animated cartoons for theatrical release from 1929 to 1973 (and briefly returned between 1987 and 1996 for television in-name only). Filmation and Terrytoons are American animation studios.
The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie
The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie — retitled The New Saturday Superstar Movie for its second season — is a series of one-hour animated made-for-television films (some of which also contained live action sequences), broadcast on the ABC television network on Saturday mornings from September 9, 1972 to November 17, 1973.
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The Archie Show
The Archie Show (also known as The Archies) is an American musical animated sitcom television series produced by Filmation for CBS.
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The Free Lance–Star
The Free Lance–Star is the principal daily newspaper distributed throughout Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States, with a circulation area including the city of Fredericksburg and all or parts of the counties of Spotsylvania, Stafford, King George, Caroline, Culpeper, Fauquier, Louisa, Orange, Prince William and Westmoreland.
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The Ghost Busters
The Ghost Busters is a live-action children's sitcom that ran on CBS in 1975, about a team of bumbling detectives who investigate ghostly occurrences.
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The Kid Super Power Hour with Shazam!
The Kid Super Power Hour with Shazam! is an NBC Saturday-morning cartoon produced by Filmation Studios in 1981.
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The Morning Call
The Morning Call is a daily newspaper in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
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The New Adventures of Flash Gordon
The New Adventures of Flash Gordon, also known as The Adventures of Flash Gordon, is a 1979–1982 animated television series.
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The New Adventures of Gilligan
The New Adventures of Gilligan is an American Saturday morning animated series produced by Filmation, which aired on ABC during the 1974–75 seasons.
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The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle
The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle is a 1979–1980 television series featuring newly produced Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle cartoons.
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The New Adventures of Superman (TV series)
The New Adventures of Superman is a series of six-minute animated Superman adventures produced by Filmation that were broadcast Saturday mornings on CBS from September 10, 1966, to September 5, 1970.
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The New Adventures of Zorro (1981 TV series)
The New Adventures of Zorro is an American animated television series produced by Filmation in 1981.
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The Real Ghostbusters
The Real Ghostbusters is an American animated television series, a spin-off/sequel of the 1984 comedy film Ghostbusters.
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The Secret of the Sword
The Secret of the Sword, also known as He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword, is a 1985 American animated superhero film produced by Filmation.
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The Secrets of Isis
The Secrets of Isis, originally broadcast as Isis, is an American live-action superhero television series produced by Filmation from 1975 to 1976 for CBS's Saturday morning lineup.
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The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show
The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show (also known as The New Adventures of Tom and Jerry) is an American animated television series produced by Filmation for MGM Television featuring the popular cartoon duo Tom and Jerry.
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The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate that is headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California.
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The Wizard of Oz
The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).
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TimesDaily
The TimesDaily is the daily newspaper for Florence, Alabama.
TMS Entertainment
, formerly known as the division or TMS-Kyokuichi is a Japanese animation studio owned by Sega Corporation.
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Tom and Jerry
Tom and Jerry is an American animated media franchise and series of comedy short films created in 1940 by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.
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Treasure Island (1973 film)
Treasure Island is a 1973 American animated adventure film directed by Hal Sutherland, produced by Filmation, and released by Warner Bros. In this adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel of the same name, Jim Hawkins (voiced by Davy Jones) travels with sidekick Hiccup the Pirate Mouse.
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Turner Entertainment
Turner Entertainment Company is an American multimedia company founded by Ted Turner on August 2, 1986.
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Uncle Croc's Block
Uncle Croc's Block is an hour-long live-action/animated television series.
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Universal Studios, Inc.
Universal Studios, Inc. (formerly as MCA Inc., also known simply as Universal) is an American media and entertainment conglomerate and is owned by NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast. Filmation and Universal Studios, Inc. are television production companies of the United States.
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Universal Television
Universal Television LLC (abbreviated as UTV) is an American television production company that is a subsidiary of Universal Studio Group, a division of NBCUniversal, which, in turn, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Comcast. Filmation and Universal Television are television production companies of the United States.
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Variety (magazine)
Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.
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Virgil Ross
Virgil Walter Ross (August 8, 1907 – May 15, 1996) was an American artist, cartoonist, and animator best known for his work on the Warner Bros. animated shorts including the shorts of legendary animator Friz Freleng.
Wang Film Productions
Wang Film Productions Co., Ltd. (also known as Hong Guang Animation (宏廣) and Cuckoos' Nest Studio) is one of the oldest and most prolific Taiwanese-American animation studios since 1978.
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Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
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Westinghouse Broadcasting
The Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, also known as Group W, was the broadcasting division of Westinghouse Electric Corporation.
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Westinghouse Electric Corporation
The Westinghouse Electric Corporation (later CBS Corporation) was an American manufacturing company founded in 1886 by George Westinghouse and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Filmation and Westinghouse Electric Corporation are Defunct mass media companies of the United States.
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Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988
The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988 (the "WARN Act") is a U.S. labor law that protects employees, their families, and communities by requiring most employers with 100 or more employees to provide notification 60 calendar days in advance of planned closings and mass layoffs of employees.
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1972 in television
The year 1972 involved some significant events in television.
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See also
1969 mergers and acquisitions
- Armitage Shanks
- Bobcat Company
- British Linen Bank
- Canadian Breweries
- Checker Records
- Claster Television
- Filmation
- Fisher-Price
- Heatter-Quigley Productions
- IRIB TV1
- Lee (brand)
- Mebetoys
- Mortein
- United States Playing Card Company
- Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
- Wintershall
1981 mergers and acquisitions
- Amalgamated Power Engineering
- Au Bon Pain
- Bache & Co.
- Bunker Ramo
- CIC Video
- Cub Cadet
- Delta Machinery
- Diners Club International
- Drammen Kommunale Trikk
- Filmation
- Fred Meyer
- Freightliner Trucks
- Golden Fleece Company
- Høyer-Ellefsen
- Horsehead Corporation
- ISACOMM
- Kruse International
- Maine Central Railroad
- Muzak
- NZI
- Oscar Mayer
- Porter-Cable
- Ruby-Spears
- St. Cuthbert's Co-operative Society
- Standard Brands
- Taco Bueno
- Texas Gulf Sulphur Company
- The Giant Company
- United Artists
- United Investors Life Insurance Company
- Western Forge
1989 disestablishments in California
- A Woman's Place (bookstore)
- AI Star/Centinela Hospital Classic
- ANALOG Computing
- Ambassador Hotel (Los Angeles)
- Antioch Airport
- Atomic Cafe (diner)
- Autograph (American band)
- Cal Yachts
- Cypress Street Viaduct
- Dynasty (band)
- Filmation
- GiantsVision
- Golden Mall
- HAW-1
- Kezar Stadium
- Konica San Jose Classic
- Lorimar-Telepictures
- Los Angeles Herald Examiner
- Los Angeles Lazers
- Maud's (bar)
- Metlox Pottery
- Night Ranger
- North Star Computers
- Out of the Blue (American band)
- Pan-Pacific Auditorium
- Petrini's
- Riverside International Raceway
- Roxie Theatre
- Sacramento Senators (soccer)
- San Jose Golddiggers
- Second Coming Press
- Silicon Systems
- Summit (magazine)
- Surf Theatre
- Team Strawberry
- The Dream Syndicate
- Todd Pacific Shipyards, Los Angeles Division
American companies disestablished in 1989
- A & R Recording
- AT&T Information Systems
- Air Kentucky
- Apollo Computer
- Atlantic Entertainment Group
- Burgess Battery Company
- Dash's Designer
- ETA Systems
- Elephant Memory Systems
- Elxsi
- Filmation
- Foonly
- Gulf and Western Industries
- Irwin Magnetic Systems
- Lorimar-Telepictures
- Maynard Electronics
- Metlox Pottery
- Midstate Airlines
- North Star Computers
- Paravision International
- Playhouse Video
- Quasar Data Products
- Spotlight Comics
Mass media companies disestablished in 1989
- Alan Class Comics
- Atkinson Film-Arts
- Barris Industries
- Filmation
- Lorimar-Telepictures
- Paravision International
- Satellite Syndicated Systems
- Selkirk Communications
Mass media companies established in 1962
- Baalbeck Studios
- Cox Communications
- Crossroads Christian Communications
- Danjaq
- Filmation
- Les Films du losange
- Lotus Communications
- MGM Animation/Visual Arts
- Melendez Films
- Officine Meccaniche (recording studio)
- Paramount Global Content Distribution
- Public Establishment of Television
- Salah Zulfikar Films Company
- Sunbeam Television
- Tatsunoko Production
- TelevisaUnivision
References
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