tv-animation
It all started with a black and white, big eyes, contagious smile, named Felix. The animated “Folias feline” Felix the Cat debuted in the times of silent movies in the early 20th century and has made friendly cat one of the first stars of the seventh art. The success of Felix was a harbinger of enchantment that animations would exert on the public during the following decades.
With the popularization of television from the 50s, the cartoons have become one of the main attractions for children. But they would go beyond the past decades and finally won adolescents and adults. This does not mean that all this success has been achieved easily. Like the comics, the animations have a history of controversy and criticism. But differences aside, the fact is that there is a wide repertoire of cartoons that can already be considered “classics.” Proof of this are the countless reruns of the animated series on television always with good ratings, even when assisted by generations born decades after its release.
It was in the 30s and 40s of last century that began to emerge some characters that would become immortal in the animated television series. Among them, the sailor Popeye and Bugs Bunny. At the same time, the success and quality of the animations produced for the cinema, as the fables of Walt Disney or the daring sexy Betty Boop, raised the esteem of the cartoons. In the late ’50s, there are the creations of Hanna-Barbera, as Yogi Bear, The Flintstones, Manda-Rain and The Jetsons that would come to occupy prime time on American television. The major film studios like Universal, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Warner Bros.. also started to produce and distribute animation for cinema and TV, including “classics” like Woody Woodpecker.
