Trademark Cartoons

Trademark Cartoons (TC) is an animation studio founded by Ted Eshbaugh on January 7, 1939.

Producers

 * Ted Eshbaugh (1939-1969)
 * James Peters (1969-1972)

Directors

 * Ted Eshbaugh (1939-1958)
 * Volney White (1939-1953)
 * Paul Sommer (1939-1961)
 * Vernon Stallings (1939-1942)
 * Ben Harrison (1939-1940)
 * Jerry Fields (1953-1954)
 * Don Patterson (1941-1964)
 * Richard Lundy (1943-1955)
 * Paul Fennell (1941)
 * Harold Burton (1939-1972)
 * Ub Iwerks (1939-1940)

Writers

 * Paul Fennell (1939-1967)
 * Henry Allen (1942-1972)
 * Walt Rider (1939-1972)
 * Irv Spector (1956-1972)

Animators

 * Warren Batchelder
 * Osmond Jones
 * Fred Kopietz
 * Frank Tipper
 * Jack Zander
 * George Cannata
 * Larry Silverman
 * Bill Shull
 * William Strum
 * Emery Hawkins
 * Bob Bentley
 * Paul Sommer
 * George Dane
 * Paul Smith
 * Don Williams
 * Rudy Zamora
 * George Hill
 * Edward Short
 * Frank Smith
 * Al Coe
 * Richard Thompson
 * Robert Allen
 * Johnny Gent
 * George Gordon
 * Tom Horton
 * John Carey
 * Jim Samson
 * Art Davis
 * Rudy Larriva
 * Ray Patterson
 * Arnold Gillespie
 * John King
 * Bill Littlejohn
 * Irven Spence
 * Ray Abrams
 * Rev Chaney
 * Howard Baker
 * Gil Turner
 * Berny Wolf
 * James Culhane
 * Robert Stokes
 * Basil Davidovich
 * Berny Wolf
 * Cecil Surry
 * Tom Johnson

Layouts and Backgrounds

 * Philip DeGuard (1939-1955)
 * Art Landy (1955-1972)
 * Robert Givens (1939-1951)
 * Raymond Jacobs (1951-1972)

Music

 * Arch Fritz (1939-1951)
 * Clarence Wheeler (1951-1959)
 * Darrell Calker (1959-1972)

Distributors

 * 20th Century Fox (1939-1961)
 * Paramount Pictures (1961-1967)
 * Columbia Pictures (1967-1972)

Series

 * Cartoonics (1939-1972) (Moved from NAFS)
 * Hot Rod Fables (1957-1972)
 * Oliver Mouse (1951-1972)

Television Series

 * The Dopey Dog Show (1959-1972) (Renamed The Dopey and Oliver Show in 1967)
 * Space Cat (1957-1969)
 * Lab Crabs (1957-1972)

History
Trademark Cartoons was founded by Ted Eshbaugh on January 7, 1939, after being laid off from NAFS, Eshbaugh moved to California and took most of the staff from NAFS and started Trademark Cartoons, he would also buy the rights to the Cartoonics series and continue the series at Trademark, the studio would start making cartoons in CinemaScope starting in 1955, the studio would drop it's first distributor, 20th Century Fox in 1961 for Paramount Pictures, the studio would also start make TV Shows staring with Space Cat in 1957, Ted Eshbaugh would pass on July 4, 1969 and James Peters took over, the studio would start having financial troubles by the 1970's and on November 13, 1971, Peters would lay off all the staff, this would two cartoons uncompleted, Peters would complete them himself but after that, Peters closed the studio on January 1, 1972, Peters would move to New York to work for Sam Harrison Television Animation he would also sell the rights to Cartoonics series to Pirate Cartoons.