Hanna-Barbera Educational Filmstrips


Hanna-Barbera Educational Filmstrips is a series of animated filmstrips of educational material produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions' educational division. The series ran from 1978–1980 for a total of 26 titles, featuring the studio's animated characters from The Flintstones, The Yogi Bear Show, The Jetsons, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, The Banana Splits, Jabberjaw and Around the World in 79 Days.
The series was designed for elementary and secondary school children and distributed in classroom environments by RADMAR, Inc. Each audiovisual package consisted of two filmstrips in plastic cases featuring high quality 35 mm images of Hanna-Barbera characters, cassette tapes and a teacher's guide booklet. The voices for the animated characters were provided by the same voice actors from their respective television series.
Robert Letro, Supervisor of Teacher Education and Director of Educational Media Laboratory at the University of California in Irvine, California, served as educational advisor for the series, while Art Scott served as production director, writer and production supervisor for Hanna-Barbera Educational Division.

Filmstrips

Voice cast and crew

Voice cast

''The Flintstones Library Skills Series''

NºYearTitleDescription and voice cast
11976Barney Borrows a Book
  • Fred, Barney and Pebbles give an overview of the library skills presented on borrowing a book.
  • Alan Reed as Fred Flintstone | John Stephenson as Barney Rubble | Sally Struthers as Pebbles Flintstone
21976Barney Returns a Book
  • Fred, Barney and Pebbles give an overview of the library skills presented on returning a book.
  • Alan Reed as Fred Flintstone | Mel Blanc as Barney Rubble | Janet Waldo as Pebbles Flintstone

    • ''Learning Tree Filmstrip Set''

    NºYearTitleDescription, contents and voice cast
    11982Learning About Communities with Scooby-Doo
    • Scooby-Doo and Shaggy learn about the characteristics of a community when they visit a ghost town.
    • Part 1: What is a Community? | Part 2: What's in a Community? | Part 3: What We Do in a Community
    21982Learning About Citizenship with Yogi Bear
  • Part 1: What is Citizenship? | Part 2: Citizenship and Government | Part 3: Good Citizenship
    • 31982Learning About Holidays with The Banana Splits
  • The Banana Splits describe the types, origins and purposes of holidays and the customs and manners of holiday celebrations.
  • Part 1: What is a Holiday | Part 2: Why We Celebrate Holidays | Part 3: Seasons of the Holidays
    • 41982Learning About Groups and Rules with Yogi Bear
  • Yogi Bear describes the origins, rationale and makeup of social groups and the rules they live by.
  • Part 1: What Are Groups? | Part 2: Why We Have Rules | Part 3: Living with Rules
    • 51982Learning About Work with The Jetsons
  • The teach-a-computer robot explains to Elroy and George about work, introduce work styles, and depict a capsule history of how work and jobs have evolved.
  • Part 1: Why We Work | Part 2: Sharing the Work | Part 3: Jobs for Everyone
  • Don Messick as George Jetson | Daws Butler as Elroy Jetson
    • 61982Learning About Other People with Huckleberry Hound
  • Huckleberry Hound presents a variety of interpersonal relationship concepts.
  • Part 1: Looking at Others | Part 2: Living with Others | Part 3: Understanding Others
    • 71982Learning About Families with The Flintstones
  • Part 1: What is a Family? | Part 2: Families Work Together | Part 3: Being Part of a Family
    • 81982Learning About Basic Needs with The Flintstones
  • Part 1: Needs and Wants | Part 2: Food, Clothing and Shelter | Part 3: Meeting Our Needs