From Mr. Magoo to Papa Smurf chronicles the story of how television rescued animation and how animation learned to make films at drastically reduced prices in incredibly short time frames.
From the 1920s through the 1950s the production and release of animated cartoons were in the care of the major Hollywood studios; the "shorts" didnt make much money but theater-goes liked them and characters such as Bugs Bunny, Donald Duck, Tom n Jerry and Woody Woodpecker were, and still are, popular icons.
The sudden expansion of television was changing the movie business and the major film studios had...