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LATEST NEWS: A brand new Pink Panther CGI/Live Action reboot film is in the works by MGM. Directed by David Silverman and produced by David DePatie, and Walter Mirisch.
The two daughters of Friz Freleing talk about the history of his career and working on The Pink Panther.
Once upon a time, I had the opportunity to work with the inspiration for Yosemite Sam: Warner Bros. animation director Friz Freleng. Here's the result!
- published: 03 Oct 2010
- views: 6471
Produced in 1975 for the arts series "Camera Three". Hosted by John Canemaker this two part video conducts interviews with Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett and Mel Blanc.
Part two is here: http://youtu.be/29mTbdL9mDE
Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
- published: 02 Feb 2015
- views: 6085
Cartoon directors Walter Lantz and Friz Freleng separately discuss the 2-colour Technicolor process in the making of animated cartoons in the 1930's. Friz talks about fellow cartoon genius Tex Avery.
- published: 20 Oct 2015
- views: 405
more at http://quickfound.net/links/military_news_and_links.html
"Private Snafu mocks his peers who study, saying that he would rather fight. His guardian angel (1st clas with a cigar) grants him the powers and a comical version of a Superman suit, which he promptly uses to create more problems than when he didn't have any powers! This is one of 26 Private SNAFU ('Situation Normal, All Fouled Up) cartoons made by the US Army Signal Corps to educate and boost the morale the troops. Originally created by Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss) and Phil Eastman, most of the cartoons were produced by Warner Brothers Animation Studios - employing their animators, voice actors (primarily Mel Blanc) and Carl Stalling's music..."
Public domain film slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snafuperman
Snafuperman is a 1944 animated short comedy produced by Warner Brothers Pictures and directed by Friz Freleng. It is one of a series of black and white "Private Snafu" cartoons created for the Army-Navy Screen Magazine and shown only to American soldiers. The "Private Snafu" cartoons were not released commercially, until December 2010. The cartoon's title is a play on "Superman"...
Synopsis
Technical Fairy, First Class—a miniature, shirtless, gravel-voiced G.I. with wings, who appears in nine of the shorts—grants Private Snafu the powers of Superman in order to fight the Nazis. But Snafu is still Snafu. Even with his new powers, he screws things up by refusing to read his training manuals.
Availability
The "Private Snafu" cartoons have fallen into the public domain and are widely available in free downloads...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Blanc
Melvin Jerome "Mel" Blanc (May 30, 1908 -- July 10, 1989) was an American voice actor and comedian. Although he began his nearly six-decade-long career performing in radio commercials, Blanc is best remembered for his work with Warner Bros. as the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Sylvester the Cat, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, Marvin the Martian, Pepé Le Pew, Speedy Gonzales, the Tasmanian Devil, and many of the other characters from the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies theatrical cartoons during the "Golden Age of American animation." He later worked for Hanna-Barbera's television cartoons, most notably as the voice of Barney Rubble in The Flintstones and Mr. Spacely in The Jetsons. Blanc was also a regular performer on The Jack Benny Program, in both its radio and television formats. Having earned the nickname "The Man of a Thousand Voices," Blanc is regarded as one of the most influential people in the voice-acting industry.
At the time of his death, it was estimated that 20 million people heard his voice every day...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friz_Freleng
Isadore "Friz" Freleng (August 21, 1905[1] -- May 26, 1995) was an American animator, cartoonist, director, and producer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros.
He introduced and/or developed several of the studio's biggest stars, including Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Sylvester the cat, Yosemite Sam (to whom he was said to bear more than a passing resemblance) and Speedy Gonzales. The senior director at Warners' Termite Terrace studio, Freleng directed more cartoons than any other director in the studio (a total of 266), and is also the most honored of the Warner directors,[citation needed] having won four Academy Awards. After Warners shut down the animation studio in 1963, Freleng and business partner David H. DePatie founded DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, which produced cartoons (notably The Pink Panther Show), feature film title sequences, and Saturday morning cartoons through the early 1980s.
The nickname "Friz" came from his friend Hugh Harman, who initially nicknamed him "Congress Frizby" after a fictional senator that was in articles in the Los Angeles Examiner. Over time this shortened to "Friz".
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A scene from "The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie"
Frank Welker - Dog Reporter interviews at the beginning of the lobby of the Oswald Awards.
0:00:56 - Pepe le Pew
0:01:30 - Porky Pig, The Three Little Pigs
0:01:47 - The Big Bad Wolf appears
0:02:15 - The Big Bad Wolf interviews himself to the Dog Reporter
0:02:30 - Foghorn Leghorn dancing entrance with two tall Chicken ladies
0:02:50 - Yosemite Sam
0:03:21 - Tweety
0:03:31- Sylvester
0:03:48 - Daffy Duck
and last but not least
0:04:33 - BUGS BUNNY!!!!!
- published: 26 Jan 2013
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more at http://quickfound.net/links/military_news_and_links.html
"Private Snafu learns the hard way about the need for military discipline and procedures to maintain an effective army." Directed by Friz Freleng. "Originally created by Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss) and Phil Eastman, most of the cartoons were produced by Warner Brothers Animation Studios - employing their animators, voice actors (primarily Mel Blanc) and Carl Stalling's music."
more Private Snafu:
Fighting Tools: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntSimW0PlFo
Booby Traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PbDa-NlX9A
The Home Front http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGmIhhMi8cg
Spies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJn_aB4FjpI
Snafuperman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op6-V5x8XHQ
Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Snafu
Private Snafu is the title character of a series of black-and-white American instructional cartoon shorts produced between 1943 and 1945 during World War II. The character was created by director Frank Capra, chairman of the U.S. Army Air Force First Motion Picture Unit, and most were written by Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel, Philip D. Eastman, and Munro Leaf. Although the United States Army gave Walt Disney the first crack at creating the cartoons, Leon Schlesinger of the Warner Bros. animation studio underbid Disney by two-thirds and won the contract. Disney had also demanded exclusive ownership of the character, and merchandising rights. Nel (2007) shows the goal was to help enlisted men with weak literacy skills learn through animated cartoons (and also supplementary comic books). They featured simple language, racy illustrations, no profanity, and subtle moralizing. Private Snafu did everything wrong, so that his negative example taught basic lessons about secrecy, disease prevention, and proper military protocols.
Private Snafu cartoons were a military secret—for the armed forces only. Surveys to ascertain the soldiers' film favorites showed that the Snafu cartoons usually rated highest or second highest. Each cartoon was produced in six weeks, compared to the six months usually taken for short cartoons of the same kind...
Most of the Private Snafu shorts are educational, and although the War Department had to approve the storyboards, the Warner directors were allowed great latitude in order to keep the cartoons entertaining...
The Snafu shorts are notable because they were produced during the Golden Age of Warner Bros. animation. Directors such as Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett, and Frank Tashlin worked on them, and their characteristic styles are in top form. P. D. Eastman was a writer and storyboard artist for the Snafu shorts. Voice characterizations were provided by the celebrated Mel Blanc (Private Snafu's voice was similar to Blanc's Bugs Bunny characterization, and Bugs himself actually made cameos in the Snafu episodes Gas and Three Brothers). Toward the end of the war, other studios began producing Snafu shorts as well (the Army accused Schlesinger of padding his bills), though some of these never made it to celluloid before the war ended. The Snafu films are also partly responsible for keeping the animation studios open during the war—by producing such training films, the studios were declared an essential industry.
After the war, the Snafu cartoons went largely forgotten. Prints eventually wound up in the hands of collectors, and these form the basis for The Complete, Uncensored Private Snafu, a VHS and DVD collection from Bosko Video...
- published: 27 Dec 2015
- views: 1099
Friz Freleng
Isadore "Friz" Freleng (August 21, 1906 – May 26, 1995), often credited as I. Freleng, was an American animator, cartoonist, director, producer and composer famous for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros.
He introduced and/or developed several of the studio's biggest stars, including Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Sylvester the Cat, Yosemite Sam (to whom he was said to bear more than a passing resemblance), and Speedy Gonzales. The senior director at Warners' Termite Terrace studio, Freleng directed more cartoons than any other director in the studio (a total of 266), and is also the most honored of the Warner directors, having won four Academy Awards. After Warners shut down the animation studio in 1963, Freleng and business partner David H. DePatie founded DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, which produced cartoons (notably those for The Pink Panther Show), feature film title sequences, and Saturday-morning cartoons through the early 1980s.
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8:47Remembering Friz Freleng
Remembering Friz FrelengRemembering Friz Freleng
LATEST NEWS: A brand new Pink Panther CGI/Live Action reboot film is in the works by MGM. Directed by David Silverman and produced by David DePatie, and Walter Mirisch. The two daughters of Friz Freleing talk about the history of his career and working on The Pink Panther. -
0:16Cartoon Network: Friz Freleng ID
Cartoon Network: Friz Freleng IDCartoon Network: Friz Freleng ID
Once upon a time, I had the opportunity to work with the inspiration for Yosemite Sam: Warner Bros. animation director Friz Freleng. Here's the result! -
6:55Ode to Friz Freleng
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3:37Friz Freleng - The Pink Panther Title Sequence (1963)
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28:58The Boys From Termite Terrace Part 1
The Boys From Termite Terrace Part 1The Boys From Termite Terrace Part 1
Produced in 1975 for the arts series "Camera Three". Hosted by John Canemaker this two part video conducts interviews with Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett and Mel Blanc. Part two is here: http://youtu.be/29mTbdL9mDE Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. -
3:07Arena BBC documentary animation excerpt 2
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Cartoon directors Walter Lantz and Friz Freleng separately discuss the 2-colour Technicolor process in the making of animated cartoons in the 1930's. Friz talks about fellow cartoon genius Tex Avery. -
4:44Private Snafu: Snafuperman 1944 US Army Cartoon, Mel Blanc, Friz Freleng
Private Snafu: Snafuperman 1944 US Army Cartoon, Mel Blanc, Friz FrelengPrivate Snafu: Snafuperman 1944 US Army Cartoon, Mel Blanc, Friz Freleng
more at http://quickfound.net/links/military_news_and_links.html "Private Snafu mocks his peers who study, saying that he would rather fight. His guardian angel (1st clas with a cigar) grants him the powers and a comical version of a Superman suit, which he promptly uses to create more problems than when he didn't have any powers! This is one of 26 Private SNAFU ('Situation Normal, All Fouled Up) cartoons made by the US Army Signal Corps to educate and boost the morale the troops. Originally created by Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss) and Phil Eastman, most of the cartoons were produced by Warner Brothers Animation Studios - employing their animators, voice actors (primarily Mel Blanc) and Carl Stalling's music..." Public domain film slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snafuperman Snafuperman is a 1944 animated short comedy produced by Warner Brothers Pictures and directed by Friz Freleng. It is one of a series of black and white "Private Snafu" cartoons created for the Army-Navy Screen Magazine and shown only to American soldiers. The "Private Snafu" cartoons were not released commercially, until December 2010. The cartoon's title is a play on "Superman"... Synopsis Technical Fairy, First Class—a miniature, shirtless, gravel-voiced G.I. with wings, who appears in nine of the shorts—grants Private Snafu the powers of Superman in order to fight the Nazis. But Snafu is still Snafu. Even with his new powers, he screws things up by refusing to read his training manuals. Availability The "Private Snafu" cartoons have fallen into the public domain and are widely available in free downloads... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Blanc Melvin Jerome "Mel" Blanc (May 30, 1908 -- July 10, 1989) was an American voice actor and comedian. Although he began his nearly six-decade-long career performing in radio commercials, Blanc is best remembered for his work with Warner Bros. as the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Sylvester the Cat, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, Marvin the Martian, Pepé Le Pew, Speedy Gonzales, the Tasmanian Devil, and many of the other characters from the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies theatrical cartoons during the "Golden Age of American animation." He later worked for Hanna-Barbera's television cartoons, most notably as the voice of Barney Rubble in The Flintstones and Mr. Spacely in The Jetsons. Blanc was also a regular performer on The Jack Benny Program, in both its radio and television formats. Having earned the nickname "The Man of a Thousand Voices," Blanc is regarded as one of the most influential people in the voice-acting industry. At the time of his death, it was estimated that 20 million people heard his voice every day... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friz_Freleng Isadore "Friz" Freleng (August 21, 1905[1] -- May 26, 1995) was an American animator, cartoonist, director, and producer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros. He introduced and/or developed several of the studio's biggest stars, including Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Sylvester the cat, Yosemite Sam (to whom he was said to bear more than a passing resemblance) and Speedy Gonzales. The senior director at Warners' Termite Terrace studio, Freleng directed more cartoons than any other director in the studio (a total of 266), and is also the most honored of the Warner directors,[citation needed] having won four Academy Awards. After Warners shut down the animation studio in 1963, Freleng and business partner David H. DePatie founded DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, which produced cartoons (notably The Pink Panther Show), feature film title sequences, and Saturday morning cartoons through the early 1980s. The nickname "Friz" came from his friend Hugh Harman, who initially nicknamed him "Congress Frizby" after a fictional senator that was in articles in the Los Angeles Examiner. Over time this shortened to "Friz". -
6:091930 - Looney Tunes - Bosko: The Booze Hangs High - Friz Freleng
1930 - Looney Tunes - Bosko: The Booze Hangs High - Friz Freleng1930 - Looney Tunes - Bosko: The Booze Hangs High - Friz Freleng
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5:03Interview of the characters of Friz Freleng
Interview of the characters of Friz FrelengInterview of the characters of Friz Freleng
A scene from "The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie" Frank Welker - Dog Reporter interviews at the beginning of the lobby of the Oswald Awards. 0:00:56 - Pepe le Pew 0:01:30 - Porky Pig, The Three Little Pigs 0:01:47 - The Big Bad Wolf appears 0:02:15 - The Big Bad Wolf interviews himself to the Dog Reporter 0:02:30 - Foghorn Leghorn dancing entrance with two tall Chicken ladies 0:02:50 - Yosemite Sam 0:03:21 - Tweety 0:03:31- Sylvester 0:03:48 - Daffy Duck and last but not least 0:04:33 - BUGS BUNNY!!!!! -
4:08Private SNAFU "Gripes" 1943 US Army Trainng Cartoon; Mel Blanc, Friz Freleng
Private SNAFU "Gripes" 1943 US Army Trainng Cartoon; Mel Blanc, Friz FrelengPrivate SNAFU "Gripes" 1943 US Army Trainng Cartoon; Mel Blanc, Friz Freleng
more at http://quickfound.net/links/military_news_and_links.html "Private Snafu learns the hard way about the need for military discipline and procedures to maintain an effective army." Directed by Friz Freleng. "Originally created by Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss) and Phil Eastman, most of the cartoons were produced by Warner Brothers Animation Studios - employing their animators, voice actors (primarily Mel Blanc) and Carl Stalling's music." more Private Snafu: Fighting Tools: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntSimW0PlFo Booby Traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PbDa-NlX9A The Home Front http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGmIhhMi8cg Spies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJn_aB4FjpI Snafuperman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op6-V5x8XHQ Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Snafu Private Snafu is the title character of a series of black-and-white American instructional cartoon shorts produced between 1943 and 1945 during World War II. The character was created by director Frank Capra, chairman of the U.S. Army Air Force First Motion Picture Unit, and most were written by Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel, Philip D. Eastman, and Munro Leaf. Although the United States Army gave Walt Disney the first crack at creating the cartoons, Leon Schlesinger of the Warner Bros. animation studio underbid Disney by two-thirds and won the contract. Disney had also demanded exclusive ownership of the character, and merchandising rights. Nel (2007) shows the goal was to help enlisted men with weak literacy skills learn through animated cartoons (and also supplementary comic books). They featured simple language, racy illustrations, no profanity, and subtle moralizing. Private Snafu did everything wrong, so that his negative example taught basic lessons about secrecy, disease prevention, and proper military protocols. Private Snafu cartoons were a military secret—for the armed forces only. Surveys to ascertain the soldiers' film favorites showed that the Snafu cartoons usually rated highest or second highest. Each cartoon was produced in six weeks, compared to the six months usually taken for short cartoons of the same kind... Most of the Private Snafu shorts are educational, and although the War Department had to approve the storyboards, the Warner directors were allowed great latitude in order to keep the cartoons entertaining... The Snafu shorts are notable because they were produced during the Golden Age of Warner Bros. animation. Directors such as Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett, and Frank Tashlin worked on them, and their characteristic styles are in top form. P. D. Eastman was a writer and storyboard artist for the Snafu shorts. Voice characterizations were provided by the celebrated Mel Blanc (Private Snafu's voice was similar to Blanc's Bugs Bunny characterization, and Bugs himself actually made cameos in the Snafu episodes Gas and Three Brothers). Toward the end of the war, other studios began producing Snafu shorts as well (the Army accused Schlesinger of padding his bills), though some of these never made it to celluloid before the war ended. The Snafu films are also partly responsible for keeping the animation studios open during the war—by producing such training films, the studios were declared an essential industry. After the war, the Snafu cartoons went largely forgotten. Prints eventually wound up in the hands of collectors, and these form the basis for The Complete, Uncensored Private Snafu, a VHS and DVD collection from Bosko Video...
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Remembering Friz Freleng
LATEST NEWS: A brand new Pink Panther CGI/Live Action reboot film is in the works by MGM. Directed by David Silverman and produced by David DePatie, and Walter Mirisch. The two daughters of Friz Freleing talk about the history of his career and working on The Pink Panther. -
Cartoon Network: Friz Freleng ID
Once upon a time, I had the opportunity to work with the inspiration for Yosemite Sam: Warner Bros. animation director Friz Freleng. Here's the result! -
Ode to Friz Freleng
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Friz Freleng - The Pink Panther Title Sequence (1963)
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The Boys From Termite Terrace Part 1
Produced in 1975 for the arts series "Camera Three". Hosted by John Canemaker this two part video conducts interviews with Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett and Mel Blanc. Part two is here: http://youtu.be/29mTbdL9mDE Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. -
Arena BBC documentary animation excerpt 2
Cartoon directors Walter Lantz and Friz Freleng separately discuss the 2-colour Technicolor process in the making of animated cartoons in the 1930's. Friz talks about fellow cartoon genius Tex Avery. -
Private Snafu: Snafuperman 1944 US Army Cartoon, Mel Blanc, Friz Freleng
more at http://quickfound.net/links/military_news_and_links.html "Private Snafu mocks his peers who study, saying that he would rather fight. His guardian angel (1st clas with a cigar) grants him the powers and a comical version of a Superman suit, which he promptly uses to create more problems than when he didn't have any powers! This is one of 26 Private SNAFU ('Situation Normal, All Fouled Up) cartoons made by the US Army Signal Corps to educate and boost the morale the troops. Originally created by Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss) and Phil Eastman, most of the cartoons were produced by Warner Brothers Animation Studios - employing their animators, voice actors (primarily Mel Blanc) and Carl Stalling's music..." Public domain film slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ra... -
1930 - Looney Tunes - Bosko: The Booze Hangs High - Friz Freleng
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Interview of the characters of Friz Freleng
A scene from "The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie" Frank Welker - Dog Reporter interviews at the beginning of the lobby of the Oswald Awards. 0:00:56 - Pepe le Pew 0:01:30 - Porky Pig, The Three Little Pigs 0:01:47 - The Big Bad Wolf appears 0:02:15 - The Big Bad Wolf interviews himself to the Dog Reporter 0:02:30 - Foghorn Leghorn dancing entrance with two tall Chicken ladies 0:02:50 - Yosemite Sam 0:03:21 - Tweety 0:03:31- Sylvester 0:03:48 - Daffy Duck and last but not least 0:04:33 - BUGS BUNNY!!!!! -
Private SNAFU "Gripes" 1943 US Army Trainng Cartoon; Mel Blanc, Friz Freleng
more at http://quickfound.net/links/military_news_and_links.html "Private Snafu learns the hard way about the need for military discipline and procedures to maintain an effective army." Directed by Friz Freleng. "Originally created by Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss) and Phil Eastman, most of the cartoons were produced by Warner Brothers Animation Studios - employing their animators, voice actors (primarily Mel Blanc) and Carl Stalling's music." more Private Snafu: Fighting Tools: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntSimW0PlFo Booby Traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PbDa-NlX9A The Home Front http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGmIhhMi8cg Spies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJn_aB4FjpI Snafuperman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op6-V5x8XHQ Public domain film from the US National Archives...
Remembering Friz Freleng
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- Updated: 30 Jun 2015
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LATEST NEWS: A brand new Pink Panther CGI/Live Action reboot film is in the works by MGM. Directed by David Silverman and produced by David DePatie, and Walter ...
LATEST NEWS: A brand new Pink Panther CGI/Live Action reboot film is in the works by MGM. Directed by David Silverman and produced by David DePatie, and Walter Mirisch.
The two daughters of Friz Freleing talk about the history of his career and working on The Pink Panther.
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LATEST NEWS: A brand new Pink Panther CGI/Live Action reboot film is in the works by MGM. Directed by David Silverman and produced by David DePatie, and Walter Mirisch.
The two daughters of Friz Freleing talk about the history of his career and working on The Pink Panther.
- published: 30 Jun 2015
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Cartoon Network: Friz Freleng ID
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- Duration: 0:16
- Updated: 03 Oct 2010
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Once upon a time, I had the opportunity to work with the inspiration for Yosemite Sam: Warner Bros. animation director Friz Freleng. Here's the result!
Once upon a time, I had the opportunity to work with the inspiration for Yosemite Sam: Warner Bros. animation director Friz Freleng. Here's the result!
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Once upon a time, I had the opportunity to work with the inspiration for Yosemite Sam: Warner Bros. animation director Friz Freleng. Here's the result!
- published: 03 Oct 2010
- views: 6471
Ode to Friz Freleng
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- Duration: 6:55
- Updated: 24 Jul 2012
- views: 2816
- published: 24 Jul 2012
- views: 2816
Friz Freleng - The Pink Panther Title Sequence (1963)
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- Duration: 3:37
- Updated: 05 Oct 2013
- views: 9560
- published: 05 Oct 2013
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The Boys From Termite Terrace Part 1
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- Duration: 28:58
- Updated: 02 Feb 2015
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Produced in 1975 for the arts series "Camera Three". Hosted by John Canemaker this two part video conducts interviews with Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Bob Clampe...
Produced in 1975 for the arts series "Camera Three". Hosted by John Canemaker this two part video conducts interviews with Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett and Mel Blanc.
Part two is here: http://youtu.be/29mTbdL9mDE
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Produced in 1975 for the arts series "Camera Three". Hosted by John Canemaker this two part video conducts interviews with Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett and Mel Blanc.
Part two is here: http://youtu.be/29mTbdL9mDE
Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
- published: 02 Feb 2015
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Arena BBC documentary animation excerpt 2
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- Duration: 3:07
- Updated: 20 Oct 2015
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Cartoon directors Walter Lantz and Friz Freleng separately discuss the 2-colour Technicolor process in the making of animated cartoons in the 1930's. Friz talks...
Cartoon directors Walter Lantz and Friz Freleng separately discuss the 2-colour Technicolor process in the making of animated cartoons in the 1930's. Friz talks about fellow cartoon genius Tex Avery.
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Cartoon directors Walter Lantz and Friz Freleng separately discuss the 2-colour Technicolor process in the making of animated cartoons in the 1930's. Friz talks about fellow cartoon genius Tex Avery.
- published: 20 Oct 2015
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Private Snafu: Snafuperman 1944 US Army Cartoon, Mel Blanc, Friz Freleng
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- Duration: 4:44
- Updated: 16 Oct 2012
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more at http://quickfound.net/links/military_news_and_links.html
"Private Snafu mocks his peers who study, saying that he would rather fight. His guardian ange...
more at http://quickfound.net/links/military_news_and_links.html
"Private Snafu mocks his peers who study, saying that he would rather fight. His guardian angel (1st clas with a cigar) grants him the powers and a comical version of a Superman suit, which he promptly uses to create more problems than when he didn't have any powers! This is one of 26 Private SNAFU ('Situation Normal, All Fouled Up) cartoons made by the US Army Signal Corps to educate and boost the morale the troops. Originally created by Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss) and Phil Eastman, most of the cartoons were produced by Warner Brothers Animation Studios - employing their animators, voice actors (primarily Mel Blanc) and Carl Stalling's music..."
Public domain film slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snafuperman
Snafuperman is a 1944 animated short comedy produced by Warner Brothers Pictures and directed by Friz Freleng. It is one of a series of black and white "Private Snafu" cartoons created for the Army-Navy Screen Magazine and shown only to American soldiers. The "Private Snafu" cartoons were not released commercially, until December 2010. The cartoon's title is a play on "Superman"...
Synopsis
Technical Fairy, First Class—a miniature, shirtless, gravel-voiced G.I. with wings, who appears in nine of the shorts—grants Private Snafu the powers of Superman in order to fight the Nazis. But Snafu is still Snafu. Even with his new powers, he screws things up by refusing to read his training manuals.
Availability
The "Private Snafu" cartoons have fallen into the public domain and are widely available in free downloads...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Blanc
Melvin Jerome "Mel" Blanc (May 30, 1908 -- July 10, 1989) was an American voice actor and comedian. Although he began his nearly six-decade-long career performing in radio commercials, Blanc is best remembered for his work with Warner Bros. as the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Sylvester the Cat, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, Marvin the Martian, Pepé Le Pew, Speedy Gonzales, the Tasmanian Devil, and many of the other characters from the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies theatrical cartoons during the "Golden Age of American animation." He later worked for Hanna-Barbera's television cartoons, most notably as the voice of Barney Rubble in The Flintstones and Mr. Spacely in The Jetsons. Blanc was also a regular performer on The Jack Benny Program, in both its radio and television formats. Having earned the nickname "The Man of a Thousand Voices," Blanc is regarded as one of the most influential people in the voice-acting industry.
At the time of his death, it was estimated that 20 million people heard his voice every day...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friz_Freleng
Isadore "Friz" Freleng (August 21, 1905[1] -- May 26, 1995) was an American animator, cartoonist, director, and producer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros.
He introduced and/or developed several of the studio's biggest stars, including Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Sylvester the cat, Yosemite Sam (to whom he was said to bear more than a passing resemblance) and Speedy Gonzales. The senior director at Warners' Termite Terrace studio, Freleng directed more cartoons than any other director in the studio (a total of 266), and is also the most honored of the Warner directors,[citation needed] having won four Academy Awards. After Warners shut down the animation studio in 1963, Freleng and business partner David H. DePatie founded DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, which produced cartoons (notably The Pink Panther Show), feature film title sequences, and Saturday morning cartoons through the early 1980s.
The nickname "Friz" came from his friend Hugh Harman, who initially nicknamed him "Congress Frizby" after a fictional senator that was in articles in the Los Angeles Examiner. Over time this shortened to "Friz".
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more at http://quickfound.net/links/military_news_and_links.html
"Private Snafu mocks his peers who study, saying that he would rather fight. His guardian angel (1st clas with a cigar) grants him the powers and a comical version of a Superman suit, which he promptly uses to create more problems than when he didn't have any powers! This is one of 26 Private SNAFU ('Situation Normal, All Fouled Up) cartoons made by the US Army Signal Corps to educate and boost the morale the troops. Originally created by Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss) and Phil Eastman, most of the cartoons were produced by Warner Brothers Animation Studios - employing their animators, voice actors (primarily Mel Blanc) and Carl Stalling's music..."
Public domain film slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snafuperman
Snafuperman is a 1944 animated short comedy produced by Warner Brothers Pictures and directed by Friz Freleng. It is one of a series of black and white "Private Snafu" cartoons created for the Army-Navy Screen Magazine and shown only to American soldiers. The "Private Snafu" cartoons were not released commercially, until December 2010. The cartoon's title is a play on "Superman"...
Synopsis
Technical Fairy, First Class—a miniature, shirtless, gravel-voiced G.I. with wings, who appears in nine of the shorts—grants Private Snafu the powers of Superman in order to fight the Nazis. But Snafu is still Snafu. Even with his new powers, he screws things up by refusing to read his training manuals.
Availability
The "Private Snafu" cartoons have fallen into the public domain and are widely available in free downloads...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Blanc
Melvin Jerome "Mel" Blanc (May 30, 1908 -- July 10, 1989) was an American voice actor and comedian. Although he began his nearly six-decade-long career performing in radio commercials, Blanc is best remembered for his work with Warner Bros. as the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Sylvester the Cat, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, Marvin the Martian, Pepé Le Pew, Speedy Gonzales, the Tasmanian Devil, and many of the other characters from the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies theatrical cartoons during the "Golden Age of American animation." He later worked for Hanna-Barbera's television cartoons, most notably as the voice of Barney Rubble in The Flintstones and Mr. Spacely in The Jetsons. Blanc was also a regular performer on The Jack Benny Program, in both its radio and television formats. Having earned the nickname "The Man of a Thousand Voices," Blanc is regarded as one of the most influential people in the voice-acting industry.
At the time of his death, it was estimated that 20 million people heard his voice every day...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friz_Freleng
Isadore "Friz" Freleng (August 21, 1905[1] -- May 26, 1995) was an American animator, cartoonist, director, and producer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros.
He introduced and/or developed several of the studio's biggest stars, including Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Sylvester the cat, Yosemite Sam (to whom he was said to bear more than a passing resemblance) and Speedy Gonzales. The senior director at Warners' Termite Terrace studio, Freleng directed more cartoons than any other director in the studio (a total of 266), and is also the most honored of the Warner directors,[citation needed] having won four Academy Awards. After Warners shut down the animation studio in 1963, Freleng and business partner David H. DePatie founded DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, which produced cartoons (notably The Pink Panther Show), feature film title sequences, and Saturday morning cartoons through the early 1980s.
The nickname "Friz" came from his friend Hugh Harman, who initially nicknamed him "Congress Frizby" after a fictional senator that was in articles in the Los Angeles Examiner. Over time this shortened to "Friz".
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1930 - Looney Tunes - Bosko: The Booze Hangs High - Friz Freleng
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Interview of the characters of Friz Freleng
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A scene from "The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie"
Frank Welker - Dog Reporter interviews at the beginning of the lobby of the Oswald Awards.
0:00:56 - ...
A scene from "The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie"
Frank Welker - Dog Reporter interviews at the beginning of the lobby of the Oswald Awards.
0:00:56 - Pepe le Pew
0:01:30 - Porky Pig, The Three Little Pigs
0:01:47 - The Big Bad Wolf appears
0:02:15 - The Big Bad Wolf interviews himself to the Dog Reporter
0:02:30 - Foghorn Leghorn dancing entrance with two tall Chicken ladies
0:02:50 - Yosemite Sam
0:03:21 - Tweety
0:03:31- Sylvester
0:03:48 - Daffy Duck
and last but not least
0:04:33 - BUGS BUNNY!!!!!
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A scene from "The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie"
Frank Welker - Dog Reporter interviews at the beginning of the lobby of the Oswald Awards.
0:00:56 - Pepe le Pew
0:01:30 - Porky Pig, The Three Little Pigs
0:01:47 - The Big Bad Wolf appears
0:02:15 - The Big Bad Wolf interviews himself to the Dog Reporter
0:02:30 - Foghorn Leghorn dancing entrance with two tall Chicken ladies
0:02:50 - Yosemite Sam
0:03:21 - Tweety
0:03:31- Sylvester
0:03:48 - Daffy Duck
and last but not least
0:04:33 - BUGS BUNNY!!!!!
- published: 26 Jan 2013
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Private SNAFU "Gripes" 1943 US Army Trainng Cartoon; Mel Blanc, Friz Freleng
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- Duration: 4:08
- Updated: 27 Dec 2015
- views: 1099
more at http://quickfound.net/links/military_news_and_links.html
"Private Snafu learns the hard way about the need for military discipline and procedures to ma...
more at http://quickfound.net/links/military_news_and_links.html
"Private Snafu learns the hard way about the need for military discipline and procedures to maintain an effective army." Directed by Friz Freleng. "Originally created by Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss) and Phil Eastman, most of the cartoons were produced by Warner Brothers Animation Studios - employing their animators, voice actors (primarily Mel Blanc) and Carl Stalling's music."
more Private Snafu:
Fighting Tools: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntSimW0PlFo
Booby Traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PbDa-NlX9A
The Home Front http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGmIhhMi8cg
Spies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJn_aB4FjpI
Snafuperman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op6-V5x8XHQ
Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Snafu
Private Snafu is the title character of a series of black-and-white American instructional cartoon shorts produced between 1943 and 1945 during World War II. The character was created by director Frank Capra, chairman of the U.S. Army Air Force First Motion Picture Unit, and most were written by Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel, Philip D. Eastman, and Munro Leaf. Although the United States Army gave Walt Disney the first crack at creating the cartoons, Leon Schlesinger of the Warner Bros. animation studio underbid Disney by two-thirds and won the contract. Disney had also demanded exclusive ownership of the character, and merchandising rights. Nel (2007) shows the goal was to help enlisted men with weak literacy skills learn through animated cartoons (and also supplementary comic books). They featured simple language, racy illustrations, no profanity, and subtle moralizing. Private Snafu did everything wrong, so that his negative example taught basic lessons about secrecy, disease prevention, and proper military protocols.
Private Snafu cartoons were a military secret—for the armed forces only. Surveys to ascertain the soldiers' film favorites showed that the Snafu cartoons usually rated highest or second highest. Each cartoon was produced in six weeks, compared to the six months usually taken for short cartoons of the same kind...
Most of the Private Snafu shorts are educational, and although the War Department had to approve the storyboards, the Warner directors were allowed great latitude in order to keep the cartoons entertaining...
The Snafu shorts are notable because they were produced during the Golden Age of Warner Bros. animation. Directors such as Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett, and Frank Tashlin worked on them, and their characteristic styles are in top form. P. D. Eastman was a writer and storyboard artist for the Snafu shorts. Voice characterizations were provided by the celebrated Mel Blanc (Private Snafu's voice was similar to Blanc's Bugs Bunny characterization, and Bugs himself actually made cameos in the Snafu episodes Gas and Three Brothers). Toward the end of the war, other studios began producing Snafu shorts as well (the Army accused Schlesinger of padding his bills), though some of these never made it to celluloid before the war ended. The Snafu films are also partly responsible for keeping the animation studios open during the war—by producing such training films, the studios were declared an essential industry.
After the war, the Snafu cartoons went largely forgotten. Prints eventually wound up in the hands of collectors, and these form the basis for The Complete, Uncensored Private Snafu, a VHS and DVD collection from Bosko Video...
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more at http://quickfound.net/links/military_news_and_links.html
"Private Snafu learns the hard way about the need for military discipline and procedures to maintain an effective army." Directed by Friz Freleng. "Originally created by Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss) and Phil Eastman, most of the cartoons were produced by Warner Brothers Animation Studios - employing their animators, voice actors (primarily Mel Blanc) and Carl Stalling's music."
more Private Snafu:
Fighting Tools: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntSimW0PlFo
Booby Traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PbDa-NlX9A
The Home Front http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGmIhhMi8cg
Spies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJn_aB4FjpI
Snafuperman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op6-V5x8XHQ
Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Snafu
Private Snafu is the title character of a series of black-and-white American instructional cartoon shorts produced between 1943 and 1945 during World War II. The character was created by director Frank Capra, chairman of the U.S. Army Air Force First Motion Picture Unit, and most were written by Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel, Philip D. Eastman, and Munro Leaf. Although the United States Army gave Walt Disney the first crack at creating the cartoons, Leon Schlesinger of the Warner Bros. animation studio underbid Disney by two-thirds and won the contract. Disney had also demanded exclusive ownership of the character, and merchandising rights. Nel (2007) shows the goal was to help enlisted men with weak literacy skills learn through animated cartoons (and also supplementary comic books). They featured simple language, racy illustrations, no profanity, and subtle moralizing. Private Snafu did everything wrong, so that his negative example taught basic lessons about secrecy, disease prevention, and proper military protocols.
Private Snafu cartoons were a military secret—for the armed forces only. Surveys to ascertain the soldiers' film favorites showed that the Snafu cartoons usually rated highest or second highest. Each cartoon was produced in six weeks, compared to the six months usually taken for short cartoons of the same kind...
Most of the Private Snafu shorts are educational, and although the War Department had to approve the storyboards, the Warner directors were allowed great latitude in order to keep the cartoons entertaining...
The Snafu shorts are notable because they were produced during the Golden Age of Warner Bros. animation. Directors such as Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett, and Frank Tashlin worked on them, and their characteristic styles are in top form. P. D. Eastman was a writer and storyboard artist for the Snafu shorts. Voice characterizations were provided by the celebrated Mel Blanc (Private Snafu's voice was similar to Blanc's Bugs Bunny characterization, and Bugs himself actually made cameos in the Snafu episodes Gas and Three Brothers). Toward the end of the war, other studios began producing Snafu shorts as well (the Army accused Schlesinger of padding his bills), though some of these never made it to celluloid before the war ended. The Snafu films are also partly responsible for keeping the animation studios open during the war—by producing such training films, the studios were declared an essential industry.
After the war, the Snafu cartoons went largely forgotten. Prints eventually wound up in the hands of collectors, and these form the basis for The Complete, Uncensored Private Snafu, a VHS and DVD collection from Bosko Video...
- published: 27 Dec 2015
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Private Snafu: Snafuperman 1944 US Army Cartoon, Mel Blanc, Friz Freleng
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