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Filmation Associates was a production company that produced animation and live-action programming for television from 1963 to 1989. Located in Reseda, California, the animation studio was founded in 1962. Filmation's founders and principal producers were Lou Scheimer, Hal Sutherland and Norm Prescott. ==History== Lou Scheimer and Filmation's main director Hal Sutherland met while working at Larry Harmon Pictures on the made-for-TV ''Bozo'' and ''Popeye'' cartoons. Eventually Larry Harmon closed the studio. Scheimer and Sutherland went to work at a small company called True Line, one of whose owners was Marcus Lipsky, who then owned Reddi-wip whipped cream. SIB Productions, a Japanese firm with U.S. offices in Chicago, approached them about producing a cartoon called ''Rod Rocket''. The two agreed to take on the work and also took on a project for Family Films, owned by the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, for ten short animated films based on the life of Christ. Paramount Pictures soon purchased SIB Productions, and True Line's staff increased, including the arrival of former radio disc jockey Norm Prescott, who became a partner in the firm. He had already been working on the animated feature ''Pinocchio in Outer Space'' which was primarily produced by Belvision Studios. They eventually left True Line, and Scheimer began working on commercials, including for Gillette and others, which began what became Filmation. He met lawyer Ira Epstein, who had worked for Harmon but left the firm, and now put together the new corporation with Scheimer and Sutherland. It officially became Filmation Associates as of September 1962, so named because "We were working on film, but doing animation"; so putting them together yielded "Filmation".〔 Both ''Rod Rocket'' and the ''Life of Christ'' series credited "Filmation Associates" with "Production Design" in addition to Scheimer and Sutherland as directors. (SIB Productions, whose logo bore a resemblance to the original Filmation logo designed by Ted Littlefield,〔 would soon go on to become "Sib-Tower 12 Productions" and produce the first few of Chuck Jones' ''Tom and Jerry'' films for MGM, until becoming MGM Animation/Visual Arts for the remainder of the films).〔 Norm Prescott brought in Filmation's first major project, ''Journey Back to Oz'', an animated sequel to the MGM film ''The Wizard of Oz'' (1939). Begun in 1962, storyboarding, voice recording, and most of the music scoring and animation had been completed when financial challenges caused the project to be put on hold for nearly eight years. In the meantime, during the interim, the new Filmation studio turned their attention to a more successful medium, network television. For the next few years they made television commercials, and some other projects for other companies, and tried to develop an original series ''The Adventures of Stanley Stoutheart'' (later renamed ''Yank and Doodle'') about a boy and a dog, which they were never able to sell, and almost closed down;〔 until approached by DC Comics editor Mort Weisinger to do a ''Superman'' cartoon. This premiered in 1966, and was followed by several of the other DC super heroes, and then in 1968, the first ''Archie Show''. Both series greatly helped Filmation's popularity to increase, into the 1970s, when it really scored big with several of its shows. Four Filmation programs from 1983-1988 were also broadcast on qubo night owl.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Filmation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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