Williams Street

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For the road in Nevada, see Williams Street (Carson City).

Williams Street (known as Ghost Planet Industries after Space Ghost's home base until 1999) is a division of Cartoon Network, which is owned by Turner Broadcasting, an operational unit of Time Warner. The studio mainly produces animated series, which air on Cartoon Network as a separate network for ratings purposes. Adult Swim is produced and programmed by Williams Street. Keith Crofford and Mike Lazzo oversee operations for the studio building.

The name originates from the location of the studios (which double as the home office for Adult Swim) on Williams Street in Atlanta, Georgia, in proximity to the current offices of Ted Turner-founded WTBS, CNN, and the Cartoon Network itself.

Williams Street Logo
Williams Street Logo

The building seen in their logo is the original concept of the "animated" Ghost Planet Industries building, which was later rendered in 3D for Space Ghost Coast to Coast and Toonami's introductions. The real-life studio looks much different, as it has an old TBS logo on the front and is much longer, and more elevated in the middle. The studio, on Williams Street in midtown Atlanta, is directly across the Downtown Connector from TBS's corporate headquarters.

The audio clip used in this logo bumper was lifted from actor Jack Webb's production company Mark VII Limited, where a hammer is used to hit a stamp to produce the "Mark VII Limited" logo.

After showing up to 5 seconds of the Williams Street logo, it cuts to a barely visible skull and crossbones design with the 1992-2004 Cartoon Network logo on it.[1][2][3]; this did not occur during the Ghost Planet Industries era, as it was followed by a less subliminal Cartoon Network logo.

In February 2007, Williams Street and Adult Swim teamed up with the independent hip-hop label Definitive Jux to produce an animated video for El-P's track "Flyentology" and release a compilation album titled Definitive Swim for free download, featuring tracks from most of the label's artists.

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[edit] Series

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[edit] Music

In 2007, Williams Street formed their own music label, Williams Street Music Label, LLC. Under that label, they have released original works of music, which may or may not be related to their shows.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Williams Street/Skull Bumper at YouTube
  2. ^ Another variation of the Williams Street/Skull Bumper at YouTube
  3. ^ Ghost Planet/Williams Street on CLG Wiki

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