United Artists Cartoon Studios

United Artists Cartoon Studios (later United Artists Animation in 1980) is an animation studio that was located on 201 East Washington Street, Syracuse, New York.

History
the United Artists Studio of Glendale, California established it's Animation Department in Syracuse with The Pink Panther shorts announced. the short starts with The Pink Phink in 1964. after it's success, it announces 15 Pink Panther shorts a year between 1965 and 1971. the studio also released 34 shorts for The Inspector between 1965 and 1969 and 17 shorts for The Ant and the Aardvark between 1969 and 1971. after that, the studio could continue to release all Pink Panther shorts until 1980.

in 1971, United Artists' Cartoon Department moved to TV Specials and the first was The Cat in the Hat. after Cat's Sucess, the studio released The Lorax in 1972, Dr. Seuss on the Loose in 1973, Halloween Is Grinch Night in 1977, and The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat in 1982. the studio also produced The Pink Panther Show episodes from 1969 to 1980 as well as the The Care Bears in the Land Without Feelings in 1983 and The Care Bears Battle the Freeze Machine in 1984. Battle the Freeze Machine's failure forced United Artists' parent company to shut down it's animation studio by 1987 and sell the Care Bears Motion Picture Project to The Samuel Goldwyn Company in July 1984. United Artists also produced Pink Panther and Sons between 1984 and 1985.

the studio produced The Care Bears with DIC Entertainment in 1985. the DIC series of the Care Bears is the last show for United Artists Animation since The Care Bears Battle the Freeze Machine failed. in early 1987, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer closed down United Artists Cartoons. in the middle of 1993, MGM revived it's animation studio as MGM/UA Animation.