Editing Filmation (section)

=== Feature films ===
Filmation also ventured into the feature film business. With their success in television firmly established by 1970, the company became profitable enough to return to the shelved ''Journey Back to Oz'' project, completing the animation and some minor voiceover work begun in 1962, and finished the film in 1971. It would take another year for ''Journey'' to be released theatrically in the United Kingdom, two more years before its 1974 U.S. release, and yet another two (1976) before it finally found its audience in network television, the very medium in which Filmation became successful. There, the film was expanded with live-action segments featuring [[Bill Cosby]], who was in the midst of his success with the studio's ''[[Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids]]''.

A deal with Warner Bros. yielded ''[[Treasure Island (1973 film)|Treasure Island]]'' and ''[[Oliver Twist (1974 film)|Oliver Twist]]'', but left several others unproduced.<ref>{{Citation|last1=Scheimer|first1=Lou|title=Lou Scheimer: Creating the Filmation Generation|pages=82, 93, 113|year=2012|location=Raleigh, North Carolina|publisher=TwoMorrows Publishing|isbn=978-1-60549-044-1|last2=Mangels|first2=Andy}}<!--|access-date=2013-02-11--></ref>

In its final years, Filmation produced feature films of its ''He-Man'' and ''She-Ra'' franchises (''[[The Secret of the Sword]]''), as well as continuations to established stories, such as ''[[Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night]]'' (1987) and ''[[Happily Ever After (1989 film)|Happily Ever After]]'' (1989; unreleased until 1993).<ref>{{cite news|title=Pinocchio Legend Grows New Animated Film Isn't A Sequel But A Continuation |newspaper=[[The Morning Call|Morning Call]] |url=https://www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-1987-12-26-2596981-story.html |access-date=2010-12-12}}</ref> In 1986, Omega Entertainment inked a worldwide television pact with Filmation in order to distribute the company's non-animated products, such as theatrical feature films, for worldwide TV distribution.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Silverman|first=Marie Saxon|date=1986-03-05|title=4 Live-Action Pics by Omega Handled Via Filmation Pact|page=6|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref> Also that year, on October 22, Filmation is beginning to serve as representative for three animated films at the MIFED, in order to cleaning up unsold territories on various Filmation productions, which accordingly hit by a lawsuit from [[The Walt Disney Company]] back in 1985 in order to prevent making films that the company claims to be based on Disney classics.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Silverman|first=Marie Saxon|date=1986-10-22|title=Filmation Repping Three Of Its Own Animated Projects|pages=66, 181|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref>