Hal Seeger

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Hal Seeger(1917-March 13, 2005) was an animated cartoon producer and director who owned his own studio the Hal Seeger Studio (Hal Seeger Productions).

In the early 1940's, he worked as an animator for Fleischer Studios where his credits included "A Kick in Time" for the Color Classics series and and a sequence for the feature film "Mr. Bug Goes to Town".

During the later part of the 1940's, he worked as a screen writer for a series of movies featuring well known black performers, including the 1947 Cab Calloway musical "Hi-De-Ho" and two films featuring featuring Dusty Fletcher and Moms Mabley ("Killer Diller" and "Boarding House Blues").

In 1962, his studio produced and syndicated 100 new Out Of the Inkwell cartoons, based on the Koko the Clown character, originally created by Fleischer Studios.

He is best known for having produced the popular programs Milton the Monster (1965-66) and Batfink (1966-67).