Mike Lah At Hanna-Barbera

Описание: While doing research for an upcoming video on Mike Lah’s time at Hanna-Barbera, I realized what a wonderful animator Lah could be, EVEN under the tight ’n tiny budgets that the studio had to work with. Here’s some of his best (and funniest!) stuff done at the studio.

Michael “Mike” Richard Lah (September 1st, 1912 - October 13th, 1995), though often remembered for his work on Tex Avery’s MGM cartoons released between 1949 and 1955, did equally funny work at the Hanna-Barbera studio in the late 1950s, after the original MGM studio shut down. In light of the shutdown, Bill and Joe opened up their own show in July of 1957, with Mike Lah animating on a freelance basis for one of their earliest productions, The Huckleberry Hound Show (1958), often going uncredited and working on gag footage during the middle of the cartoon. Lah never officially worked in/at the studio, however, and although was supposed to be a part of the ownership group of H-B Productions, he (most likely) didn’t have the money to invest in it, and continued working elsewhere. He passed away a little under 4 decades later.

Clips used (all produced for the Huckleberry Hound Show by Hanna-Barbera Productions Inc., and released in 1958):
0:00 - Pie-Pirates
0:06 - Lion Tamer Huck
0:08 - Judo Jack
0:12 - Pie-Pirates (2nd time)
0:15 - Jinks’s Mice Device
0:21 - Yogi Bear’s Big Break
0:25 - Lion Tamer Huck (2nd time)
0:36 - Pistol Packin’ Pirate
0:37 - Yogi Bear’s Big Break (2nd time)
0:41 - Lion Tamer Huck (3rd time)
0:46 - Cousin Tex
0:49 - Lion Tamer Huck (4th time)
0:53 - Pie-Pirates (3rd time)
1:04 - Pistol Packin’ Pirate (2nd time)
1:09 - Lion Tamer Huck (5th time)
1:14 - Jinks’s Mice Device (2nd time)
1:22 - Tally Ho Ho Ho
1:28 - Lion Tamer Huck (6th time)
1:35 - Cousin Tex (2nd time)
1:39 - High Fly Guy
1:48 - High Fly Guy (2nd time)
1:53 - Little Bird Mouse
1:59 - Pie-Pirates (4th time)
2:03 - Lion Tamer Huck (7th time)
2:05 - Cousin Tex (3rd time)
2:11 - Big Bad Bully
2:19 - Jinks Jr.
2:21 - Pie-Pirates (5th time)
2:28 - The Ghost With the Most
2:34 - Pie-Pirates (6th time)
2:39 - The Ace of Space
2:49 - Pie-Pirates (7th time)
3:00 - Jinks Jr.
3:03 - Baffled Bear
3:06 - Little Bird Mouse (2nd time)
3:09 - Foxy Hound Dog
3:10 - Cousin Tex (4th time)
3:16 - Big Bad Bully (2nd time)

Music: Various Hoyt Curtin cues produced for Hanna-Barbera Productions Inc., c. 1959