Editing Animation (section)

===Television===
Animation became very popular on television since the 1950s, when television sets started to become common in most developed countries. Cartoons were mainly programmed for children, on convenient time slots, and especially US youth spent many hours watching [[Saturday-morning cartoon]]s. Many classic cartoons found a new life on the small screen and by the end of the 1950s, the production of new animated cartoons started to shift from theatrical releases to TV series. [[Hanna-Barbera Productions]] was especially prolific and had huge hit series, such as ''[[The Flintstones]]'' (1960–1966) (the first [[prime time]] animated series), ''[[Scooby-Doo]]'' (since 1969) and Belgian co-production ''[[The Smurfs (1981 TV series)|The Smurfs]]'' (1981–1989). The constraints of American television programming and the demand for an enormous quantity resulted in cheaper and quicker [[limited animation]] methods and much more formulaic scripts. Quality dwindled until more daring animation surfaced in the late 1980s and in the early 1990s with hit series, the first cartoon of [[The Simpsons shorts|The Simpsons]] (1987), which later developed into [[The Simpsons|its own show]] (in 1989) and ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' (since 1999) as part of a "renaissance" of American animation.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}

While US animated series also spawned successes internationally, many other countries produced their own child-oriented programming, relatively often preferring [[stop motion]] and [[puppetry]] over cel animation. Japanese [[anime]] TV series became very successful internationally since the 1960s, and European producers looking for affordable cel animators relatively often started co-productions with Japanese studios, resulting in hit series such as ''[[Barbapapa]]'' (The Netherlands/Japan/France 1973–1977), ''[[Vicky the Viking|Wickie und die starken Männer/小さなバイキング ビッケ (Vicky the Viking)]]'' (Austria/Germany/Japan 1974), ''[[Maya the Honey Bee]]'' (Japan/Germany 1975) and ''[[The Jungle Book (1989 TV series)|The Jungle Book]]'' (Italy/Japan 1989).{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}