Changes: Format Films

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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 and Popeye the Sailor. Klynn shut his studio in 1962 but reopened it by 1965 as Format Productions. The studio made eleven shorts in Warner Bros.' theatrical Road Runner series as well as three theatrical Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales shorts, and produced The Lone Ranger in 1966.

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, and created film title designs for The Glory Guys and Clambake.

Filmography

Theatrical Shorts

Run, Run, Sweet Road Runner (1965, with DePatie-Freleng Enterprises)
Tired and Feathered (1965, with DePatie-Freleng Enterprises)
Boulder Wham! (1965, with DePatie-Freleng Enterprises)
Just Plane Beep (1965, with DePatie-Freleng Enterprises)
Hairied and Hurried (1965, with DePatie-Freleng Enterprises)
Highway Runnery (1965, with DePatie-Freleng Enterprises)
Chaser on the Rocks (1965, with DePatie-Freleng Enterprises)
Shot and Bothered (1966, with DePatie-Freleng Enterprises)
Out and Out Rout (1966, with DePatie-Freleng Enterprises)
The Solid Tin Coyote (1966, with DePatie-Freleng Enterprises)
Clippety Clobbered (1966, with DePatie-Freleng Enterprises)
Quacker Tracker (1967)
The Music Mice-Tro (1967)
The Spy Swatter (1967)

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-'''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'' and ''Popeye the Sailor''. Klynn shut his studio in 1962 but reopened it by 1965 as Format Productions. The studio made eleven shorts in Warner Bros.' theatrical ''[[Road Runner]]'' series as well as three theatrical [[Daffy Duck]] and [[Speedy Gonzales (character)|Speedy Gonzales]] shorts, and produced ''The Lone Ranger'' in 1966.
+'''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'' and ''Popeye the Sailor''. Klynn shut his studio in 1962 but reopened it by 1965 as Format Productions. The studio made eleven shorts in Warner Bros.' theatrical ''[[Road Runner]]'' series as well as three theatrical [[Daffy Duck]] and [[Speedy Gonzales]] shorts, and produced ''The Lone Ranger'' in 1966.
 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, and created film title designs for ''The Glory Guys'' and ''Clambake''.