Filmation later went on to produce the hit He-Man and the Masters of the Universe ( 1983 – 85 ), which occasionally used modified character and set designs from Star Trek: The Animated Series, mostly as background material.

Filmation also pioneered other animation technologies, particularly in Flash Gordon, which included backlighting effects for the first time in American animation ( they were already in use in Japan ), including moire effects to represent energy fields ( a technique that was later used in He-Man and later in She-Ra ).

Filmation is also noteworthy for its lavish background paintings under the direction of longtime department head Erv Kaplan such as the purple-colored " night sky " backgrounds used in He-Man and She-Ra.

It was used for exterior shots in the 1975 Filmation children's series The Ghost Busters.

Ultimate ran into some criticism in the gaming media for their repeated use of the Filmation technique in subsequent games Alien 8, Nightshade, Gunfright and Pentagram, though Nightshade and Gunfright used Filmation II, a variation on the engine, resulting in a similar visual style, but significantly different gameplay, with scrolling around a large world and arcade-like play, rather than the room-based puzzles of the earlier Filmation titles.

" In this appearance, Filmation used the official DC Comics pronunciation of his name.

The character was named Gorpo in the early original series drafts, and that name was still used in the Brazilian Portuguese dub of the original series, but he was renamed Orko for animation purposes ; Filmation artists often flipped the character cels, a technique that works best when the characters are symmetrical in design, and putting a " G " on Orko's shirt would have complicated the process because the letter G is not a symmetrical shape.

According to the Filmation series bible, Eternia used to be an incredibly advanced civilization that evolved through centuries of barbarism, enlightenment and scientific technology.

Using the name of his wife Yvette Blais as a pseudonym, Ellis ( along with Norm Prescott, who used the pseudonym Jeff Michael, in reference to his sons Jeff and Michael ) composed nearly all of the background music for cartoon studio Filmation from 1968 to 1982, according to the booklets for many of the DVDs for the studio's shows, such as Ark II, Space Academy, and Jason of Star Command.

The CBS Saturday morning series The New Adventures of Superman produced by Filmation Studios — as well as The Adventures of Superboy from the same animation house — featured the iconic " shirt rip " to reveal the " S " or Clark Kent removing his unbuttoned white dress shirt in a secluded spot, usually thanks to stock animation which was re-used over dozens of episodes, to reveal his costume underneath while uttering his famed line " This is a job for Superman!

The series was produced by Filmation in association with Paramount Television and ran for two seasons from 1973 to 1974 on NBC, airing a total of twenty-two half-hour episodes.

An early Filmation proposal for this series had children assigned to each of the senior officers as cadets, including a young Vulcan for Mr. Spock.

Filmation also recycled some of the background music for Star Trek: The Animated Series in their later shows Shazam !, Tarzan and the Super 7 and Sport Billy.

Lander also has experience as a voice actor, with a resume dating back to 1969 where he " dramatically reproduced " Elvis Presley quotations for the Pop Chronicles music documentary and 1970 when he was the voice of Jerry Lewis in the Filmation series Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down.

Filmation Associates was a production company that produced animation and live-action programming for television during the latter half of the 20th century.

( SIB Productions, whose logo bore a resemblance to the original Filmation logo, would soon go on to become " Sib-Tower 12 Productions " and produce the first few of Chuck Jones ' Tom and Jerry films for MGM, until becoming MGM Animation / Visual Arts for the remainder of the films ).

The new Filmation studio would for the next few years make television commercials, until approached by DC Comics editor Mort Weisinger to do a Superman cartoon.

This was a typical working desk for animators, layout artists, and background designers at Filmation in 1983.

Other favorably remembered Filmation series included a 16-part animated serial of Flash Gordon, originally intended as a movie for theatrical release, Flash Gordon: The Greatest Adventure of All.

Filmation had a reputation for exploiting the technique of limited animation to produce a number of animated series with a distinct look.

Unlike many American studios, Filmation never relied upon animation studios outside the United States for the bulk of its production ; Ghostbusters and Bravestarr both state in the end credits that they were " made entirely in the U. S. A .".

Begun in 1964, the project was held back for eight years when Filmation did not have enough money to finish the film.

According to the booklets accompanying some of the DVDs of Filmation's shows, legendary composer Ray Ellis ( who was assisted by his son Marc Ellis ) had produced the background music for most Filmation series under the pseudonyms " Yvette Blais and Jeff Michael.

Filmation routinely included a plug for its music publisher, Shermley Music, in the closing credits of most of its shows.

Following the success and critical acclaim for this set, BCI Eclipse on January 16, 2006, struck a long-term exclusive deal with Entertainment Rights for distribution rights to its entire Filmation catalog ( with the exception of the Archie series which was acquired by Genius Products ).

According to science fiction writer and animation historian Andy Mangels, who hosts commentary for many Filmation releases, the three Super 7 segments in question were pulled from distribution due to " various lawsuits " from Marvel Comics and DC Comics.

Ultimate are perhaps best remembered for the big-selling titles Jetpac and Sabre Wulf, each of which sold over 300, 000 copies in 1983 and 1984 respectively, and their groundbreaking series of isometric arcade adventures utilising a technique termed Filmation.

This series involved much tighter continuity and a somewhat greater depth of characterization than its Filmation predecessor.

Filmation would later develop the idea into its own original live action program, Space Academy, in 1977.

Filmation did, however, rely on outsourcing once, when the company created its animated Zorro series.

Filmation incorporated live-action into some of its animated series.

Filmation made six fully live-action shows, including Space Academy, its spin-off Jason of Star Command, Ark II, Shazam!

In its final years, Filmation produced feature film versions of its He-Man and She-Ra franchises, as well as unofficial cult animated sequels to other established films, such as Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night and Happily Ever After.

Like other animation studios, Filmation had its stock company of voice-over actors.

The Filmation studio was owned by The TelePrompTer Company in the early 1970s, then by Westinghouse ( through its Group W Productions division, following its purchase of TelePrompTer's cable and entertainment properties ) in 1982.

Most of the Filmation back catalog first come under the ownership of Hallmark Cards, through its Hallmark Entertainment subsidiary.

Entertainment Rights has since made the revelation that when Hallmark converted all of its Filmation shows to digital format in the 1990s, only PAL-format copies were made, with the original film prints apparently discarded.

Knight Lore, and some of its Filmation follow-up Alien 8, was actually completed before Sabre Wulf but Ultimate decided that it could have a potentially negative effect on sales of the comparatively primitive Sabre Wulf, so it was postponed until late 1984 for a simultaneous release with Underwurlde.

Examples of companies that have either folded or been subsumed into larger companies include Filmation ( folded 1989 ), Hanna-Barbera ( still active on paper, although its operations absorbed into Warner Bros.

In a 2007 DVD interview, Filmation producer / founder Lou Scheimer praised the laugh track for its usage on The Archie Show.

While rotoscoping is generally known to bring a sense of realism to larger budget animated films, the American animation company Filmation, known for its budget-cutting limited TV animation, was also notable for its heavy usage of rotoscope to good effect in series such as Flash Gordon, Blackstar, and He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.

Later episodes showed that they often escaped during various points in history, being let out for a day every few years while the water tower was being fumigated, and were occasionally loaned out to other animation studios, particularly during the 1960s ( a reference to the fact that Warner Bros. did the same with all its characters when it shut down its animation studio in the 1960s, outsourcing production of Warner Bros. properties to DePatie-Freleng Enterprises and, for one television movie, Filmation ).

The animated series He-Man and the Masters of the Universe was produced by Filmation and made its television debut in 1983.