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The Pink Panther cartoons were originally created
by Friz Freleng for the opening 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..
Though the Pink Cartoons continued for almost twenty years,
the ones directed by Friz Freleng and Hawley Pratt
are considered the classics.
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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