Animated transitions

Animated transitions were a common form of transition used between some scenes in many Hanna-Barbera cartoons. These transitions usually occur between scenes where one is held in one location and the next scene occurs in a different location. Most of the series with animated transitions aired on ABC and CBS. It could be assumed that NBC did not approve of this practice.
These types of transitions were commonplace on Hanna-Barbera cartoons during much of the 1970s, but were phased out from newer shows by 1981 in favor of a fading transition. One exception was in The Little Rascals animated episode, "Cap'n Spanky's Showboat" from 1982 - which had a rare occurrence of animated scrolling transitions on two occasions. Newer episodes of any existing series, such as Richie Rich, continued using such transitions until those series were cancelled. It is believed that Pac-Man was the last new series to use animated transitions between scenes. Even the signature series - such as The Flintstones, The Smurfs, and many vintage cartoon series - never used such transitions.
==Used in Hanna-Barbera cartoons==
*The New Scooby-Doo Movies: The two episodes with Batman and Robin used a bat silhouette.
*SuperFriends had two:
**The first, used only in 1977, had a zooming "SF" shield over a multi-colored spiral.
**The second, used in Challenge of the Superfriends, consisted of three shooting stars.
*Dynomutt, Dog Wonder used a falcon silhouette.
*The Robonic Stooges had the animated letters L, M and C zoom toward the camera.
*Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels: The effect involves a swirling line with a silhouette of a haunted house moving forward.
*Richie Rich: There were two versions of such type of transition, both of which had a tinkling sound effect:
**Version 1.0 had a big yellow dollar sign with a black outline swirling inward. This was prevalent for the first three episodes of the series.
**Version 2.0 had a smaller dollar sign in a Clarendon-style font that resembles more realistic gold, and has dollar signs flying diagonally off each side simultaneously, then the center dollar sign swirls more rapidly.
*Pac-Man used an extreme close-up of Pac-Man's mouth, with a "chomping" sound effect.
*Several of Hanna-Barbera's superhero cartoons of the 1960s used bands of color for animated scene transitions.
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