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Freleng
[ free-leng ]
noun
- (Isadore) Friz, 1906?–95, U.S. animator.
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High point: The murderers’ row of animators — Tex Avery, Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones, Art Babbitt, Winsor McCay — honored for their careers in 1974.
Best extras: Before the main event, viewers can watch the eight-minute, 1939 color short “The Bookworm” directed by animation pioneers Friz Freleng and Hugh Harman.
Several other cartoons from this period also featured baseball, including “Porky’s Baseball Broadcast,” which came out in 1940 and, like “Baseball Bugs,” was directed by Freleng.
But as Greg Ford, who produced the 1994 documentary “Freleng Frame By Frame,” said, the earlier cartoon wasn’t nearly as good.
“Baseball Bugs,” directed by Friz Freleng, is not just a great title on its face; it’s also a pun from the period that few fans would get today.
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