Kenneth Lee "Ken" Muse was an American animator, best known for his work on the Tom and Jerry theatrical cartoon short series at MGM.
Career[]
When MGM closed their animation studio in 1957, Muse joined his former bosses, Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera at their new company, Hanna-Barbera. He was one of the most prolific animators working for Hanna-Barbera's classic period of the late 1950s and early 1960s. He animated many important shows and sequences, including all of the short pilot, "The Flagstones", from which the original series, The Flintstones was sold, as well as the original opening and closing titles of the series (the instrumental "Rise and Shine" titles, seen in the first two seasons plus two episodes of the third season, rather than the later, more familiar "'Meet the Flintstones" titles).
Muse also animated all of the first-produced episode of the series, "The Swimming Pool" (during the first season, episodes were assigned to one animator, who had only about four weeks each to complete them). Four other early episodes animated entirely by Muse include "Hot Lips Hannigan","No Help Wanted", "The Monster from the Tar Pits", and "The Tycoon".
Filmography (as an animator)[]
Television series
The Flintstones
- 100. "The Flagstones" (pilot)
- 102. "Hot Lips Hannigan"
- 103. "The Swimming Pool"
- 104. "No Help Wanted"
- 106. "The Monster from the Tar Pits"
- 114. "The Prowler"
- 116. "Arthur Quarry's Dance Class"
- 122. "The Tycoon"
- 124. "The Long, Long Weekend"
- 125. "In the Dough"
- 127. "Rooms for Rent"
- 128. "Fred Flintstone: Before and After"
- 202. "Droop-Along Flintstone"
- 203. "The Missing Bus"
- 205. "Fred Flintstone Woos Again"
- 228. "The Rock Vegas Story"
- 229. "Divided We Sail"
- 232. "Take Me Out to the Ball Game"
- 302. "Fred's New Boss"
- 303. "Barney the Invisible"
- 305. "The Twitch"
- 307. "The Buffalo Convention"
- 308. "The Little Stranger"
- 327. "Swedish Visitors" (uncredited)
- 403. "Little Bamm-Bamm"
- 404. "Dino Disappears"
- 408. "Big League Freddie"
- 414. "Peek-a-Boo Camera"
- 502. "Monster Fred"
- 504. "Pebbles' Birthday Party"
- 516. "Fred's Flying Lesson"
- 520. "Moonlight and Maintenance"
- 525. "Fred Meets Hercurock"
- 526. "Surfin' Fred" (uncredited)
- 602. "The House That Fred Built"
- 603. "The Return of Stony Curtis"
- 604. "Disorder in the Court"
- 607. "The Great Gazoo"
- 612. "Shinrock A Go-Go"
- 617. "The Long, Long, Long Weekend"
- 621. "Boss for a Day"
- 626. "The Story of Rocky's Raiders"