Format Films

Logo from 1961-1962

Format Films was a television animation studio which was founded by Herbert Klynn in 1959 with Jules Engel as vice president, Herb McIntosh and Joseph Mugnaini. It was most active during the 1960s, producing episodes of The Alvin Show, Popeye the Sailor, and The Lone Ranger animated series in 1966. Klynn shut his studio in 1962 but reopened it by 1965 as Format Productions. The studio made eleven Road Runner shorts that were outsourced from DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, alongside three theatrical Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales shorts during the transition towards moving production to the Warner Bros.-Seven Arts studio; all of which were directed by Rudy Larriva.

Format Productions also created title sequences for several TV series, including I Spy, Honey West, the animated characters on the television variety show Hee Haw, animated various TV commercials, animated The Alvin Show, and created film title designs for The Glory Guys and Clambake.

Filmography

Theatrical Shorts

1.  "Run, Run, Sweet Road Runner" (1965)
2.  "Tired and Feathered" (1965)
3.  "Boulder Wham!" (1965)
4.  "Just Plane Beep" (1965)
5.  "Hairied and Hurried" (1965)
6.  "Highway Runnery" (1965)
7.  "Chaser on the Rocks" (1965)
8.  "Shot and Bothered" (1966)
9.  "Out and Out Rout" (1966)
10.  "The Solid Tin Coyote" (1966)
11.  "Clippety Clobbered" (1966)
12.  "Quacker Tracker" (1967)
13.  "The Music Mice-Tro" (1967)
14.  "The Spy Swatter" (1967)

Notes

• All of the shorts produced from this studio have been restored, except "Run, Run, Sweet Road Runner", "Quacker Tracker", and "The Spy Swatter".