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Goodbye, Warner Bros., Hello DePatie-Freleng

Name: Goodbye, Warner Bros., Hello DePatie-Freleng
Released: 2016-04-26
Duration: 17 min
Rating: 5

Not Rated

5/10(1 ratings)

Documentary short

04-26-2016

17 min

Goodbye, Warner Bros., Hello DePatie-Freleng

Main Cast

Jerry Beck

Jerry Beck is a well-known animation historian, with ten books and numerous articles to his credit. He is also an animation producer, an industry consultant to Warner Bros., and has been an executive with Nickelodeon and Disney.

Known For

Adventures in Plymptoons!

2011

The Memory of Robot Carnival: A Look Back at the History of the Classic Anthology

2018

Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants

2009

Barbara Donatelli

Known For

Of Aardvarks, Ants, Inspectors, and Cranes

2016

Friz Freleng

Isadore "Friz" Freleng (1906–1995), sometimes credited as I. Freleng, 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, 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 "Congressman Frizby" after a fictional senator that was in articles in the Los Angeles Examiner. Over time this shortened to "Friz".