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Panther's Trail Leads to Kansas City
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Article describes the creation of the Pink Panther animated character by Kansas City native Isadore "Friz" Freleng. Freleng was a 1923 graduate of Westport High, worked with Walt Disney at Kansas City Film Ad Company, and developed numerous characters for the Warner Brothers cartoon department, including Sylvester the Cat, Tweety Bird, Yosemite Sam (reported to be modeled on Freleng himself), and Porky Pig.
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2006-02-10
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Newspaper Article
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KC Toons and Tunes
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Article gives information on both Isadore "Friz" Freleng and Carl Stalling, two Kansas Citians who contributed the most to the Warner Bros.animation studio. Both worked early on for Walt Disney. Freleng co-created Porky the Pig,Yosemite Sam, the Pink Panther and put Tweety and Sylvester characters together in cartoons. Stalling "composed the scores for nearly all the cartoons released from 1936 to 1958" and created many of the familiar cartoon sounds.
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Date
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2003-10-28
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Friz Freleng Cartoon
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Description
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Cartoon illustration by Isadore (Friz) Freleng published in the February 14, 1923, Westport Crier newspaper while he was a student at Westport High School. Freleng went on to become an animation pioneer creating over 300 cartoons for Warner Bros. featuring Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Yosemite Sam, and other classic Looney Tunes characters.
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Date
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1923
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Object Type
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Artwork
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Friz Freleng Cartoon
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Cartoon illustration by Isadore (Friz) Freleng published in the March 13, 1923, Westport Crier newspaper while he was a student at Westport High School. Freleng went on to become an animation pioneer creating over 300 cartoons for Warner Bros. featuring Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Yosemite Sam, and other classic Looney Tunes characters.
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1923
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Artwork
