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.

History
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 for two cartoons in 1930, until 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.

As the cartoons had only two people working on them, Poulin and Baker, they were in a very slow production. However, in late 1930, Baker hired some people to the studio and they started working as artists, animators and writers. Most cartoons at the time were music-driven, relying heavily on musical techniques such as "Mickey Mousing". Peppatoons was dialogue-driven and put music on the side and was one of the first.

Characters

 * Peppa Pig (1930-1980): A tomboyish, mischievous pig/let. She originated in 1909. She was completely dropped in 1980 when animation began to be outsourced due to low budgets at the time.
 * George Pig (1930-1981): Peppa's little brother. He is an intelligent prankster who doesn't know how to not break the cartoon rules.
 * Suzy Sheep (1930-1980): Peppa's best friend. She is smarter than Peppa and always states her opinion.
 * Applejack (1981): She loves apples. Only had four cartoons in 1981 and was immediately forgotten due to her forgettable character.
 * Jackie the Dalmatian (1968-1981): A formerly famous prankster who lost all of his fame and needs to get it back.
 * Filly (1930, 1979-1980): A yellow filly. Absent until 1934, when she appeared on Dippy Ditties.
 * Pumpkin Pie and Apple Pie (1940-1973)

Voice actors

 * Peppa Pig:
 * Valary Humphrey (1930-1987): 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.
 * Catherine Auteberry (1987-)