Jay Ward Productions

Jay Ward Productions (or simply Ward Productions) is an American animated television cartoon series production company, founded in 1949 by American animator Jay Ward. It made extensive use of limited animation techniques.

It was known for producing The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show as well as many other TV series and films. The company also designed trademark characters like Cap'n Crunch, King Vitaman, Quisp, and Quake breakfast cereals, and made numerous commercials for these products.^[1] The company mostly stopped producing new animation around 1970.

Jay Ward Productions, managed by members of his family, is located across the street from the Chateau Marmont on the Sunset Strip.

Today, Bullwinkle Studios, a joint venture between Classic Media (DreamWorks Classics) and Jay Ward Productions, represents the catalog. Distribution rights are handled by The Program Exchange, the corporate successor to Dancer Fitzgerald Sample (which originally brokered advertising for and, through its Gamma Productions subsidiary, animated Ward's productions).

Films and TV series

Animation

• Crusader Rabbit
• Rocky and His Friends (also known as The Bullwinkle Show or The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show)
  • Fractured Fairy Tales
  • Peabody's Improbable History
  • Dudley Do-Right
• The Adventures of Hoppity Hooper (also known as Hoppity Hooper or The Hoppity Hooper Show)
  • Uncle Waldo's Cartoon Show
  • Fractured Fables
• George of the Jungle
  • Super Chicken
  • Tom Slick

Commercials (For Quaker Oats Company)

• Quake and Quisp, characters used by Quaker Oats
• Cap'n Crunch
• King Vitaman

Live action

• Fractured Flickers

Mascot

• Sonny the Cuckoo Bird

References

External links

• Jay Ward Productions at the Internet Movie Database