Other Cartoons and Television Series
DFE was one of the subcontractors for the 1960s Warner Bros. cartoons, along with Format Films. The Looney Tunes shorts made by the studio can be easily identified by their modernized "Abstract WB" opening and closing sequences. DFE continued to do Warner Cartoon work into the 1970s, with the Looney Looney Christmas Tales Holiday special. DFE made the animated title sequence for the television show I Dream of Jeannie, created and produced by Sidney Sheldon for Screen Gems between 1965 and 1970.
DFE produced the animated opening sequence for the 1965-1969 The Wild Wild West series, and the innovative animated sequences for the 1969-1970 television series My World and Welcome to It, based on the drawings of James Thurber. DFE also created Return to the Planet of the Apes which ran on NBC from 1975 to 1976 and The Oddball Couple, which ran on Saturday mornings on ABC from 1975 to 1977.
One of the studio's television specials was 1973's The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas, with Tommy Smothers voicing the little bruin who goes out to find Christmas (in the human world), while his fellow bears head for hibernation. DFE was also responsible for a number of Dr. Seuss specials, including The Cat In The Hat and different incarnations of The Grinch.
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