Peppatoons

Peppatoons (originally Peppa Pig Presents) is a series of cartoons produced by Poulin-Baker Cartoon Studios. The series started de facto in 1930 with Peppa Hides Out and ended in 1981 with Jackie and His Tricks. After Peppatoons ended, extended television specials were created for it until 1988, when a Peppa Pig relaunch television series started.

Production
In 1909, Aurele Poulin released his first cartoon short, Comics in Motion. It was merely a test, and featured a young pig. After a couple of cartoons in between, he released his second cartoon featuring this pig in 1915, called Missy the Little Pig. Missy was renamed Pecca in 1919. This series would last until 1927, when Poulin Productions shut down.

Poulin and Thomas Baker restarted production on these cartoons in 1930, rebranding Pecca as Peppa. This was called Peppa Pig Presents until 1932, when it was renamed Peppatoons. Peppatoons was originally colored in the two-strip Polacolor process, usually alternating between red and green and red and blue. In 1932, it was changed to the three-strip process and ultimately beat Disney to the color race.

Characters

 * Peppa Pig (1930-1976): A tomboyish, mischievous pig/let. She originated in 1909. She was completely dropped in 1976 when animation began to be outsourced due to low budgets at the time.
 * Applejack (1981): Only had five cartoons in 1981.
 * Jackie the Dalmatian (1968-1981)

Voice actors:

 * Peppa Pig:
 * Aurele Poulin (1930-1931): Rarely voiced the character. Originally used a falsetto voice used for many cartoons at the time, similar to Mickey Mouse.
 * Charity Power (1931-1933): Used a French accent.
 * Valary Humphrey (1933-1957): Used an English accent for the character. Gave Peppa a younger voice. Originally Poulin disapproved of this and wanted an French accent, but test audiences liked the English accent.
 * Judy Strickland (1957-1975): Gave more emotion to Peppa's voice.
 * Claire Reed (1975-2001)
 * Catherine Auteberry (2001-): Used a mix of all previous voice actors' voices.