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| The Pink Panther cartoons were originally created by Friz Freleng for the opening moments of Blake Edwards' 1964 comedy, "The Pink Panther". There were so many good reviews on the cartoon alone, that a series of pink cartoons were put into production. Friz Freleng began his career in the exact studio in Kansas City as did Walt Disney. Freleng moved to California in the late 1920s. He started to help two fellow Kansas city animators; Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising make a series called "Luney Toons" for Warner Brothers. With the exception of one year with MGM, Freleng was a Warner Brother (not literally... but you know what I mean.) He became the senior director and supervising cartoons starring Bugs Bunny, Tweety, and Daffy Duck for thirty years. Freleng also directed the first cartoons starring Sylvester, Porky Pig, and Yosemite Sam, ultimatly winning four Academy Awards for the studio. Warner Brothers shut down its animation department in 1962. Freleng teamed up with around 100 to 150 illustrations of the Pink Panther. "I remember very well that we took them over to Blake's office and spread them all out and that he knew exactly what he wanted. He went right over, pointed to one of them and said 'that's the guy!'" "Then they asked us to do a storyboard," recalls Freleng, "They just flipped when they saw it. When we finally got it onto the screen and they previewed it, the comment from the press was that the titles were better than the picture." (I disagree with that completely.. the movie was better. But that's MY opinion!) "The Pink Phink" was honored with an Academy Award. Though the Pink Cartoons continued for almost twenty years, the ones directed by Friz Freleng and Hawley Pratt are considered the classics. When Edwards directed an Inspector Clouseau follow-up the next year, the Pink Cartoon, "Pink Da Vinci", brought demands for yet another theatrical series. The resulting group of witty and distinctive cartoons, entitled THE INSPECTOR, featured the voices of comedian Pat Harrington as both the not so clever Inspector and his faithful assistant Deaux -Deaux. The Pink Cartoons continued in every Pink Panther Live Action movie through the seventies, eighties, and nineties. (The Son of the Pink Panther movies were made after Peter Sellers died in 1980. The Pink Panther cartoons began even those.) |
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