Ising's original Barney design contained a plethora of detail: shaggy fur, wrinkled clothing, and six eyebrows as the series progressed, the design was gradually simplified and streamlined, reaching its peak in three late 1940s shorts, the only output of the short-lived directorial team of Preston Blair and Michael Lah. Barney Bear made his first appearance in The Bear That Couldn't Sleep in 1939, and by 1941 was the star of his own series, getting an Oscar nomination for the 1941 short The Rookie Bear. The character was created for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by director Rudolf Ising, who based the bear's grumpy yet pleasant disposition on his own and derived many of his mannerisms from the screen actor Wallace Beery. The title character is an anthropomorphic cartoon character, a sluggish, sleepy bear who often is in pursuit of nothing, except for peace and quiet. Barney Bear is a series of cartoons produced for MGM between 1939-1954.
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