"#ThePinkPanther Theme" is a #jazz composition by #HenryMancini written as the theme for the 1963 film The Pink Panther and subsequently nominated for the #AcademyAwardForBestOriginalScore at the #37thAcademyAwards but lost to the #ShermanBrothers for #MaryPoppins. The #eponymousCartoonCharacter created for the film's opening credits by #DavidDePatie and #FrizFreleng was animated in time to the tune. The tenor saxophone solo was played by #PlasJohnson.
https://youtu.be/sh8eysaqEEI

#BOTD: Hawley B. Pratt (June 9, 1911 – March 4, 1999) was an American film director, animator, and illustrator. He is best known for his work for Warner Bros. Cartoons and as the right-hand man of director Friz Freleng as a layout artist and later as a director. Pratt also worked for Walt Disney Studios, Filmation, and DePatie-Freleng Enterprises where he co-created The Pink Panther.

#Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawley_Pratt

#IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0695462/

#Animation #WarnerBros #FrizFreleng

81 years ago:
The Wabbit Who Came to Supper (US)
Bugs Bunny exploits the situation when an uncle leaves Elmer Fudd three million dollars on the condition that he harm no animals, especially rabbits.
1942-03-28
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/100383
#TheWabbitWhoCametoSupper #FrizFreleng #MelBlanc #Animation #ClassicFilm #BugsBunny

76 years ago:
A Hare Grows in Manhattan (US)
Bugs Bunny relates his early life in the Manhattan tenements and spotlights his encounter with a gang of canine toughs.
1947-03-22
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/74999
#AHareGrowsinManhattan #FrizFreleng #MelBlanc #BeaBenaderet #Animation #BugsBunny #Film

79 years ago:
Snafuperman (US)
Pvt. Snafu becomes a superhero, only for him to become the world's dumbest one because he won't study his field manuals.
1944-03-15
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/101572
#Snafuperman #FrizFreleng #MelBlanc #Animation #ClassicFilm

63 years ago:
Goldimouse and the Three Cats (US)
Sylvester, his wife, and son go for a walk while their porridge cools, when Goldimouse wanders by to eat the porridge and sleep in their beds. Sylvester then tries to catch her for his "spoiled brat" of a son to eat.
1960-03-15
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/195868
#GoldimouseandtheThreeCats #FrizFreleng #MelBlanc #JuneForay #Animation #ClassicMovies

69 years ago:
Bugs and Thugs (US)
When Bugs calls a cab he doesn't know it's the getaway car for a couple of bankrobbers (he does know the capital of Nevada).
1954-03-13
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/147915
#BugsandThugs #FrizFreleng #MelBlanc #Animation #Film

58 years ago:
The Wild Chase (US)
Ever wonder who was the fastest Road Runner or Speedy Gonzales? This cartoon aimed to answer that all-important question between two of Warner Brothers' speediest characters. Of course, the race (set in an American desert) wouldn't be interesting without Wile E. Coyote or Sylvester trying to nab the...
1965-02-26
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/162223
#TheWildChase #FrizFreleng #MelBlanc #Animation #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

TIL that Yosemite Sam is a landsman, and all I can say is "What in tarnation?"

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-mysterious-jewish-roots-of-yosemite-sam

#LooneyTunes #FrizFreleng #MelBlanc #YosemiteSam #HeDoesntLookJewish

63 years ago:
Horse Hare (US)
Yosemite Sam leads his Indians against Fort Lariat while Bugs is in charge.
1960-02-13
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/234755
#HorseHare #FrizFreleng #MelBlanc #Western #Animation #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

80 years ago:
Pigs in a Polka (US)
A tuxedo-clad wolf Master of Ceremonies announces the evening's program: the tale of the Big Bad Wolf and the Three Little Pigs, set to the music of Johannes Brahms's Hungarian Dances. Queue the fairy tale.
1943-02-06
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/100323
#PigsinaPolka #FrizFreleng #MelBlanc #Animation #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

72 years ago:
Canned Feud (US)
Sylvester Cat finds that his people have gone on vacation and left him alone in a locked house with a large stash of canned food in a cupboard. Sylvester needs a can opener, or he'll starve. And a pesky mouse has the only can opener in the house and torments Sylvester into trying more and more despe...
1951-02-03
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/145948
#CannedFeud #FrizFreleng #Animation #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

65 years ago:
Hare-Less Wolf (US)
An absent-minded wolf sets out to catch Bugs for dinner but keeps forgetting what he was heading out to shoot in the first place.
1958-02-01
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/165854
#HareLessWolf #FrizFreleng #Animation #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

70 years ago:
A Mouse Divided (US)
A drunken stork delivers a baby mouse to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Cat. Sylvester is about to eat the little rodent when it calls him Daddy. Touched, Sylvester adopts the mouse as his son - which, distressingly, attracts every hungry cat in the neighborhood to his door!
1953-01-31
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/235816
#AMouseDivided #FrizFreleng #Animation #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

85 years ago:
My Little Buckeroo
In the border town of Boiled Beef, Texas, in 1872, a bandit who is wanted by authorities terrorizes the town - but a pig-headed deputy thinks he has a way to capture him.
1938-01-28
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/236181
#MyLittleBuckeroo #FrizFreleng #Animation #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

85 years ago:
My Little Buckeroo
In the border town of Boiled Beef, Texas, in 1872, a bandit who is wanted by authorities terrorizes the town - but a pig-headed deputy thinks he has a way to capture him.
1938-01-28
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/236181
#MyLittleBuckeroo #FrizFreleng #Animation #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

84 years ago:
Seal Skinners (US)
A trained seal has escaped from the Jingling Brothers circus; there's a $100,000 reward. Both the Captain and John Silver hear this news, as does the seal. They show up, offering the seal a ride to wherever she wants to go; home to the arctic, as it happens. The Captain wins round one, grabbing the ...
1939-01-28
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/236227
#SealSkinners #FrizFreleng #MGM #Animation #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

The Pink Panther

#PinkPanther #CartoonCharacter #FrizFreleng #UnitedArtists #Drawing #Illustration #FediArt #MastoArt

"We found out early that if you did something with a character, either animal or human, that couldn't possibly be rigged up in live action, why then you've got a guaranteed laugh. We used any kind of distortion that couldn't possibly happen, like a character getting himself stuck in a milk bottle. You couldn't get Chaplin in a milk bottle...."
---#TexAvery, interview with Take One c. 1970

(Pic from #FrizFreleng's #StageDoorCartoon)

#Animation #Cartoons #LooneyTunes #TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation

Greetings Bait (1943) Looney Tunes Friz Freleng

#looneytunes #frizfreleng #eatatjoes