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For anyone that doesn’t know if he’s alive, he isn’t. He died of cancer on April 15, 2023 at 5 AM.

Filmation DOMINATED the T.V. animation I (and everyone I know in the animation industry) watched every weekday after school at age 13. They had hit show after hit show. You could tell the artists and writers were at least TRYING for something good.

Made such a positive impact on kids and adults. My only peeve with Mr. Scheimer is that he, directly or indirectly, fired Jackson Bostwick (Captain Marvel) from the "Shazam" tv show. Bostwick had to see a doctor for an eye injury, but was wrongly accused of holding out for a pay increase, in spite of Bostwick's proof of his injury and medical treatment.

Filmation was truly an American industry that not only created cartoons for kids but gave jobs and education in business. Filmation will always be remembered!

Great story! The American dream.

They look like a happy, kooky family. What fun it must have been.

Filmation's last production was the feature film Happily Ever After (a sequel to the story of Snow White), produced from 1986 to 1988, and released to theaters five years later in 1993. Also, at the time of the closing, two new animated series, Bugzburg (a spin-off of Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night, concerning insect characters who had shown up in that movie) and Bravo (a spin-off of BraveStarr), were beginning production. In 1989, Westinghouse sold Filmation to Paravision International, an investment consortium led by the French cosmetics company L'Oréal. Before that sale was complete, Westinghouse shuttered the film studio on February 3, 1989, which left L'Oréal with only the Filmation library. This happened a day before the WARN Act went into effect requiring companies to give employees 60 days' notice before a mass layoff. Starting with 1987's The New Archies, DIC was given the rights, by Archie, to Archie's animation. Not just the right to perp new shows, but also that to air Archie shows perped by Filmation. DIC gave the The Family Channel to air Filmation-perped shows; after the Filmation logo, I remember the 1990-99 DIC "Kid in Bed" logo appearing after it.

I wish there were more people like Lou Scheimer making new programs for syndication because nowadays, it's become nothing more than A news, and tabloid show wasteland. We're never gonna get the next 'He-Man', 'She-Ra', or 'Fat Albert' in today's TV landscape. Also, it's kinda cool that Lou saw the potential of A 24 hour cartoon channel before Ted Turner made it happen, and he could've made it happen if his studio was bought out by an entertainment conglomerate who understood, and loved animation because A cosmetics company like Loreal knows NOTHING about making cartoons.

Great insight!! Thanks!

i would love to look like you bro, not ugly at all

Legacy, Quality Cartoons Story and Animation. Thank you very much for bringing up my childhood and the whole world. (I'm from Philippines).

this is a beautiful documentary.

It's over

Thanks, Lou Scheimer!

Takk!

This man is my childhood, nothing better in the world than sitting down with your bowl of cereal on Saturday morning, and watching filmation cartoons and live-action, but it's an added plus that he was a good human being.

I bet the ones that close it down is f**king Disney.

I remember those days

Thank you for this. After being in just about every denomination I have recently left everything and come to this conclusion while studying. I used to be KJV only. lol This is so freeing and gives a greater revelation of Gods loving character. Everyone hates this message and loves their idol hell for some reason. Glad I have changed my mind by truth.

scientific method: 👁️👄👁️

It's sad that many animators looked back on Filmation with such disdain. Okay, the animation was cheap and stiff, but it looks amazing and the backgrounds are very well done. Kind of like Dingo Pictures a few years after Filmation's demise, except they used computers and are looked back on in an even more dim light.

They did Fat Albert, He Man, Zorro, Tarzan- Lord of the Jungle, Shazam, Flash Gordon, etc.

I miss Flimamation so much growing up in the 70's and 80's watching cartoons back then today cartoons are bad

It's the real Odin teaching how to pronounce Norse !

I'm working a manufacturing job here in the USA, and the boxes our products go into say "Made in the USA" on the outside. I keep repeating the jingle in this commercial when I see it. America still makes things!

its very different, needs a lot of practice

He was a trail blazers in cartoons. Saturday morning would not be the same.RIP Lou for your race is over.

Unlike Renegade Animation, Filmation never switched the animation to digital ink & paint similar to Hanna-Barbera in the 1980s.

They really destroyed 'Made in the USA' but we sure did get some feel good commercials for a short time.

Cartoons were made not just to entertain, but double as a learning too at the same time.

I bought a production animation cel of Harpo Marx in 1992 that is the same art as his character in A Day At The Horse Opera. I still have it. However, I didn't see a scene like this in the feature (huge full body image almost dead center facing you, holding harp up to his left ear). Could it have been done as a one-off promo? No ink markings, no peg desk holes, smaller cel than standard 12.5 x 10.25. Anybody have an idea?

It’s as that two co-founders passed away in 2013 and three months later in 2014 that’s so so so so very sad.

are you a brony?

Great video!

Nice cartoon bed sheets LOL. This video is priceless thanks for showing me what FTFE subs look like in person.

The FILMATION logo (1977-81)

"I have THE POWER!" To always reconnect with our unique and focused on keeping American animation in America producer/head of animation legend. Stay safe everyone!

if you're a true fan of this man, cancel your netflix account

It's good to know that good animators like Lou Sheimer are appreciated and remembered.

The Bible is against private property because all the land belongs to God. The land is never to be sold and anyone who claims to own land has stolen it from God A sin punishable by Death. You can't steal from God and expect to live.

I just happen to stumble upon this documentary, and although I grew up watching programming from Filmation, I hadn’t given Lou the credit he deserves for his contribution to animation. I learned something new today, and I’m a better person now that I’ve watched this.

Hey man, this is the guy who used to run THENEWJMONEY507 channel. I remember GoTimothy all too well. Is he still talking crap?

Damn, half these celebrities are dead now.

fuck walt disney....i never liked anything disney related and never will....

i learned from him and his cartoons....

it's ok...he was buzzed/drunk....they're still working together till this day.....just in heaven though....

at 30:48....brought a tear to my eye as well...

amazing....thank you

I love how they are so apologetic about stock animation. Like any of us cared when we were 7 years old.

Private property needs the state to be protected. Private police cant defend it (which only defend the bosses property), only public police can defend it impartialy. And were is it registered and defended? In the state's title office and the court.