Yogi Bear
Yogi Bear is an American cartoon character from the Hanna -Barbera studios. He first came in 1958 in the animated series Huckleberry Hound and his friends, until he in 1961 with Yogi Bear got his first series.
Formation
The temporary decline of the cinema culture in the United States of the 50s forced the production studio Metro -Goldwyn -Mayer to cease Animation production in 1957 and to dismiss their salaried employees in this division. The two character animators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera then founded his own studio and could with the reputation that they brought with them as a producer of Tom and Jerry, put her first series, The Ruff & Reddy Show at the television network NBC. The following year, the series Huckleberry Hound and his friends, who was sold as a syndicated program on the Columbia Pictures subsidiary Screen Gems and sponsored by the beginning of breakfast cereal producer Kellogg's was born. A shipment consisted of three parts: in addition to a history of the Blue Dog Huckleberry Hound each a story of the two mice Pixie and Dixie and a Yogi Bear was told with its smaller companion Boo Boo. The series was awarded in 1959 as the first animated series an Emmy Award and reached up to 16 million viewers worldwide.
Due to the popularity of Yogi Bear this was 1961, a year before setting the original series, its own eponymous show. The Yogi Bear stories stories about the mountain lion Snagglepuss, who was previously seen at Quick and his friends, and to the Doodle Yakky ducklings were thereby set aside. It was suspected that Yogi Bear was named after the popular baseball player Yogi Berra. Although a connection has been denied, the public was not trying to convince them of a chance.
Development
Yogi Bear lives in the series Yogi Bear Jellystone Park, which was named in allusion to the Yellowstone National Park. He tries by unthinking greed driven, the local visitors to steal picnic baskets. His opponent is the Ranger Smith who wants to make in his park for peace and order and can not understand that Yogi is not fed like all other bears of nuts and berries. Yogis companion Boo Boo acts as his conscience, who pointed him to the condition of the Rangers. From the second season separates the Bear Cindy Bear, trying to win their favor Yogi appears. Yogis life motto, which he expresses in almost every episode, reads: "I 'm smarter than the ordinary Durchschnittsbär " ( in the original: "I'm smarter than the average bear! ").
The first television series was discontinued in 1962, however, constantly repeated in television, appeared in 1964 with Yogi Bear's Adventures of the first film of Hanna- Barbera Studios. Yogi appears here first as usual as drive controlled picnic thief. When he should be removed from the Jellystone Park and placed in a zoo, it remains undetected in the park. Cindy Bear, however, can bring voluntarily in a zoo to be with him. Yogi goes first voluntarily traveling to find his girlfriend, Cindy Bear is first drawn as a character figure.
His next appearance was Yogi Bear from 1973 in the series yogis transition in which a number of characters from the Hanna -Barbera studios meet at the Jellystone Park and decide to look for a place with no pollution and crime. With a flying ark then they travel the world. At the end, they return and begin themselves to change the conditions in Jellystone Park and there to remove debris lying around.