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DHX/UA Ireland (doing business as Stant Animation Studios) is an Irish animation studio of Dublin, Ireland. it was the creator of the Stant Toons Franchise.

It is also the first and oldest animation studio of Ireland, the first and oldest animation studio of Europe and the Oldest Animation Studio on the world.

in April 2011, DHX turned the Stant Studios in-name-only. future Stant releases, starting with Stant Toons 14 used the DHX Media logo at the beginning and end and the Stant Studios logo at the end.

due to the Academy Award loss of DreamWorks Animation's The Boss Baby in March 2018, DHX Media cancelled newer live-action movies for Stant Studios and changed the studio's name to Stant Animation Studios.

in September 2018, Universal bought North American distribution rights (theatrical and home video) to the Stant library from DHX Media. Mwanwhile, StudioCanal bought Overseas distribution rights (theatrical and home video) to the Stant library from DHX Media.

starting in 2019, DHX still owned the Stant Media, but the home video and theatrical distribution rights are now owned by Universal, later DreamWorks Holdings, in North America and StudioCanal Overseas.

History
in 1922, the history began a year before Walt Disney Productions. Both Disney (founded in 1923) and Stant began and it was founded in Cork, Ireland on 27 Saint Patrick's Quay by Jack Stant, James Stant, and Fred Stant. the studio then start to produce 5 cartoons a year when one of the Stant shorts Began. a year later, the Stant Brothers Studios made a deal with First National Pictures.

in 1928, they got translated to sound and the Studio was the newest Animation Studio of Ireland. Meanwhile at Hollywood, The Warner Brothers Film Company purchased First National. the Warners did not like the Stants however and two years later, the Stant studio made a Four-year distribution deal with Pathé.

in 1932, the Stant Studios made another deal with Mascot Pictures.

in 1933, the Stant Studios celebrated the 10th Anniversary to start producing 10 cartoons a year before The Stant Studios went to Color. in 1935, Mascot merged with Monogram (along with four other studios) to form Republic Pictures, which has distributed the Stant cartoons for three years. in 1938, the studio made a ten-year distribution deal with United Artists.

in 1945, the Stant Studios announced that they would produce 15 cartoons a year. the studio then moved to Kilkenny, Ireland on 26 Hebron Road, Blanchfieldsland in 1946. in 1948, the distribution deal with UA was terminated. this same year, the Stant Studios was bought by Monogram Pictures subsidiary called Allied Artists.

due to Cartoons first being used to CinemaScope in 1954, the Stant studios produced 20 films a year. the Cinemascope/Stant Venture lasted until 1960.

in 1958, Jack Stant Productions, along with Allied Artists, was bought by Embassy Pictures.

in 1962, Stant Studios partnered with Kellogg's to to make the Froot Loops, Frosted Flakes, and Rice Krispies commercials.

in 1964, the The Stant Toons Show premiered on BBC TV and before the show ended in 1967.

in 1966, The Winged Unicorn, the Stant Studios' first feature film, was successfully released. in 1970, they produced their new movie Stant Toons:the Motion Picture.

in 1972, Stant announced to make animated commercials. as well as that, Stant also announced to make more films and co-produce films with other animation studios outside of Ireland.

in 1975, the Stant Studios produced new shows like Stant Farms (1980-1983), The Stant Family (1987-1994), Stant Babies (1995-1997) and Stants of the House (1998-2002). then the Stant Studios formed Stant Village (2007-2012).

in 1980, Stant Studios partnered with General Mills to make the Honey Nut Cheerios commercial. However, while the Honey Nut Cheerios Bee was animated by the Stant Studios, the live-action settings and people are filmed at Ardmore Studios.

in 1983, Stant Studios has announced that they will make the Kellogg's Honey Smacks commercials, as well as Cookie Crook and Cookie cop for the Cookie Crisp commercials.

after Dino De Laurentiis acquired Embassy Pictures from The Coca-Cola Company in 1986, were sold to Judy Garland Entertainment and merged with Ragdoll Productions to form Ragdoll/Stant.

in 1987, Stant studios partnered with Cinemark to make the Front Row Joe policy trailers.

in July 1989, Stant Studios partnered with Milton Bradley to make the Hungry Hungry Hippos and Mouse Trap commercials. in 1993, Stant also announced the Elefun Commercials.

in 1994, Sony purchased Garland and the studio has Stant movies 2-9 produced during their move to Dublin on 28 R109 (former home of Sullivan Bluth Studios) in 1995.

in 1996, Stant Studios ended partnership with General Mills, Ralston Purina, Kelloggs, Cinemark, and Milton Bradley due to the move to Dublin, Ireland.

in 1998, Sony Pictures Entertainment's Columbia TriStar was sued by News Corporation's Twentieth Century Fox for sealing the Judy Garland films from Turner Entertainment. this caused Sony to put up a sale for home video and international rights to films starting Judy Garland and the two subsidiaries (Ragdoll and Stant) that Garland bought.

in 2000, Sony announced that the Stant Studios is put sale. a year later, Other companies, Universal Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. (the owner of the Stant Studios' first distributor First National), Walt Disney Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, DreamWorks SKG, Artisan Entertainment, BBC (U.K. Channel for Stant shows), PBS (U.S. Channel for Stant shows), Village Roadshow Pictures (former Australian distributor of Stant media), Lions Gate Entertainment, AT&T, Comcast, Transamerica (former owner of United Artists) and 20th Century Fox (which sued Columbia in 1998), are vying to win the ownership to the Stant Studios.

in July 2002, Fox (which sued Sony in 1998) won the ownership to buy Stant Studios. in March 2003, The acquisition is complete.

in December 2005, The Courts of England and Wales accused Stant Studios of pop music on End-Credits. a month later Fox sadly announced the sale.

in April 2006, the music companies sued Stant Studios for the ideas for the end-credits songs. for instance, the Irish court reined the fight over between the Stant Studios and all the Music Companies. in July 2006, News Corporation has put a sale of the Stant Studios.

in 2007, the Fox years for Stant Studios are over and the studio was sold to Canadian company DHX Media due to Lawsuit from American music companies. as a result, DHX will own Stant permanently.

in 2012, Stant Studios was renamed as DHX/Stant Studios to celebrate the 90th Anniversary of the Stant Toons franchise and the studio.

in May 2015, DHX Media and Netflix Original agreed to release all future Stant television shows on Netflix Worldwide except the UK/Ireland. Meanwhile, DHX Media aired all future Stant television shows on RTÉjr in Ireland and CBeebies in the United Kingdom.

in December 2015, the arrangement is complete and DHX released all future Stant television shows on Netflix Worldwide except the UK/Ireland.

in October 2017, due to Harvey Weinstein effect, Stant announced to end it's ownership by DHX Media. and also, Eric Stant will no longer be the main character.

in January 2018 due to the proposed acquisition of 21st Century Fox and its assets from Rupert Murdoch by The Walt Disney Company, DHX Media announced that the Stant Studios' was for sale again, this time a proposal sale to Verizon Communications (future owner of Paramount Entertainment Co.), BCE Inc., Charter Communications, General Eletric, Keysight, beIN Media Group (owner of Miramax bought by Lantern Capital) and Vine Alternative Investments (owner of Rogue Filmed Entertainment).

due to the Academy Award loss of DreamWorks' The Boss Baby to Disney/Pixar's Coco on March 4, 2018, DHX Media announced that the Stant Studios will be shut down under Irish Law.

on March 14, 2018, However, there will be a new name for the Stant Studios for the future of Stant Toons and all other Stant media. Meanwhile, the headquarters at Dublin on 28 R109 were restored DHX Media. and also, DHX Media announced that there will be no new live-action films for Stant.

on April 30, 2018, Zac Stant left DHX Media changed the name of the Stant Studios to the Stant Animation Studios. in May 2018, DHX Media spun-off Commercial Land.

in August 2018, Ragdoll Productions re-merged with the Stant Animation Studios to form Ragdoll/Stant Entertainment.

on November 3, 2018, Stant Animation Studios' parent company DHX Media decided to let StudioCanal and Universal take distribution. while StudioCanal will distribute Stant's future media Overseas, Universal will distribute Stant's future media in North America.

after Sony/Marvel's Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse won Best Animated Feature at the Golden Globes on January 6, 2019, Stant Animation Studios revived The County Blue franchise by making all future Media for the County Blue.

on February 14, 2019, StudioCanal and Stant made a Scandinavian deal with Nordisk Film to distribute all Stant films in these Nordic Countries.

after Spider-Man: Into the Spider Verse won an Annie Award, Stant had announced that the Live-Action Stant films are coming back.

on March 14, 2019, Stant released Mount Geburtstagszug, which became a Huge Box office Success, leading DHX to make Stant to make more films.

Divisions

 * Stant Films (1964-2018)
 * Stant Television (1975-present)
 * Stant Video (1982-1991)
 * Stant Home Entertainment (2000-2013)
 * Stant Distribution (2003-2018, Ireland Only)
 * Stant Games (2004-present)
 * Stant Electronic Sell-Through (2009-present)

Name History

 * Stant Brothers Studios (1923–1960)
 * StantScope (1955–1960)
 * Jack Stant Productions (1960–1968)
 * Stant Productions (1968–1994)
 * Stant Pictures (1980–1987)
 * Stant Enterprises (1987–1991)
 * Stant Limited (1991–1994)
 * Stant Animation (1994–2000)
 * Stant Studios (2000–2018)
 * Stant Animation Studios (2018–present)

Distributors
for distributors, see the Stant's distributors

Filmography
the Stant Animation Studios library are now owned by DHX Media since 2007, although Stant retains copyright until 2018, when DHX manages the Stant use.


 * List of Stant Animation Studios films
 * List of Stant Animation Studios television shows

Logo History
it all started in 1923 with a Star in a middle of the logo. in 1960, the Stant Shooting Star was used to jump left. in 2000, the Backwards Shooting star was officially a "Flag-Stant Star" to become inspired by the Alpha Video logo of all time. in 2007, the 1923 logo was brung back by CGI (which stands for Computer Genetic Imagery). in 2011, the 1960's version of the logo is back but is on the space background and is blue. in 2018, it on to the space background with a golden shooting star. three years later, a NASA shooting star debuted.

for the 2021 logo, see it up.

Stant Animation Department
when the studio is formed in 1922, Cork, Ireland on 27 Saint Patrick's Quay is the first home and facility of the Stant Animation Studios.

in 1946, Stant moved it's headquarters to Kilkenny, Ireland on 26 Hebron Road, Blanchfieldsland, where all the Cartoons were made. by 1959, they had stopped making Theatrical Cartoon Shorts, with the Tobias Brothers shorts continuing on Television. a year later, they began making Theatrical Animated Feature Films.

following Don Bluth Studios' bankruptcy in 1994, Sony bought 28 R109 home, where all animated media were animated by Stant.

after DreamWorks' The Boss Baby did NOT win Best Animated Feature at the 90th Academy Awards on March 4, 2018, The Stant home on 28 R109 is sold again. from April 2018 onward, all Stant films will be animated at 8PWV+R5 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland, the home of Boulder Media, another Irish animation Studio.

Stant Studio Lot
the Ardmore Studios is bought by Stant in 1957, making it the Home of all Stant Live-action television shows and films.

it is located on Herbert Rd, Killarney, Bray, Co. Wicklow, A98 C3C6, Ireland.

it is renamed to the Stant Studios facility lot by 1994.

after the studio's renaming to the Stant Animation Studios in 2018, DHX sold the Ardmore Studios to FilmCoin.

Note
Although the Stant Animation Studios is, until 2007, an independent animation studio, it didn't always release its titles on its own. It once had a distribution deal with First National, french studio Pathé, Mascot, Republic, United Artists (the first Major studio to distribute Stant media), Monogram, Allied Artists, Embassy (the second Major studio to distribute Stant media, but in the UK/Ireland only), Garland, Sony (the third Major studio to distribute Stant media), and Fox (the fourth and last Major studio to distribute Stant media). it has always owned copyright of them, to the point of having a "presents" credit, without mentioning these distributors.

DHX bought Stant, and distribution comes all across Worldwide in 2007, but StudioCanal took Overseas distribution and Universal took American and Canadian distribution in 2018. a year later, Mount Geburtstagszug is released and became DHX's most successful film to date.