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Freleng and Tweety
Tweety was toned down when Friz Freleng started directing the series into a more cutesy bird, and even more when Granny was introduced, however sometimes Tweety still kept his malicious side.
Clampett began work on a short that would pit Tweety against a then-unnamed, lisping black and white cat created by Friz Freleng in 1945.
Freleng toned Tweety down and gave him a cuter appearance, including large blue eyes and yellow feathers.
From 1945 until the original Warner Bros. Cartoons studio closed, Freleng had almost exclusive use of Tweety at the Warner cartoon studio ( much like Yosemite Sam ), with the exception of a brief cameo in No Barking in 1954, directed by Chuck Jones ( that year, Freleng used Pepé Le Pew, a Jones character, for the only time in his career and the only time in a Tweety short, Dog Pounded ).
In 1953's Catty Cornered, Freleng set the Mob against another of his comic duos, Sylvester the Cat and Tweety Bird.
Tweetie Pie is a 1947 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng and produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, depicting the first pairing of Tweety and Sylvester.
Allegedly, when Tweety's creator, director Bob Clampett, left the Warner Bros. studio in 1946, he was working on a fourth film starring Tweety, whom he would pair with Friz Freleng ’ s Sylvester, who previously appeared with Porky Pig in his cartoon Kitty Kornered ( released in 1946 ).
When Freleng decided to replace the woodpecker with Tweety, producer Eddie Selzer objected, and Freleng threatened to quit.
Pepé himself made a more obvious cameo in Dog Pounded ( 1954 ), where he was attracted to Sylvester after the latter tried to get around a pack of guard dogs, in his latest attempt to capture and eat Tweety Bird, by painting a white stripe down his back ( in his only appearance in a Freleng short ).
Some historians also claim that Friz Freleng nearly resigned after butting heads with Selzer, who did not think that pairing Sylvester the cat and Tweety was a viable decision.
Selzer backed off the issue and apologized to Freleng that evening, a wise decision on two fronts: Warner Bros. did not lose the talents of Freleng to a competing studio, and Tweetie Pie, the very cartoon that first paired Sylvester and Tweety together, went on to win Warner Brothers ' first Academy Award for Animated Short Film, in 1947, with Tweety and Sylvester proving to be among the most endearing duos in Warner Bros. cartoons.
Birds Anonymous is a 1957 Merrie Melodies animated short, directed by Friz Freleng and written by Warren Foster, starring Tweety Bird, Sylvester and Sam.

Freleng and project
However, Clampett left the studio before going into full production on the short, and Freleng took on the project.

Freleng and with
With the animators working in the Termite Terrace studio, they debuted the first truly major Looney Tunes star, Porky Pig, who was introduced in 1935 along with Beans the Cat in the Merrie Melodie cartoon I Haven't Got a Hat directed by Friz Freleng.
Though he was created by McKimson, the majority of the cartoons with him were directed by Friz Freleng.
2 ) In " Bingo Crosbyana " ( Freleng, 1936 ) there is a matchbox with the name " Portis Matches " and a wine glass with the label saying " 90 Percent Portis ".
After leaving the remnants of Termite Terrace behind for good, Friz Freleng and his new partner David H. DePatie went on to produce the Pink Panther cartoons during the 1960s and 1970s, with the cartoons appearing almost simultaneously on television and in theaters through a distribution deal with United Artists.
Freleng soon teamed up with Harman and Ising to try to create their own studio.
The cartoon finally sold to Leon Schlesinger, who soon secured Harman and Ising to star Bosko in the Looney Tunes series he was producing for Warner Bros. Freleng soon moved back to California to work with Harman and Ising once again.
Schlesinger was left with no experienced directors, and therefore lured Freleng away from Harman-Ising to successfully fix cartoons directed by Tom Palmer which Warner Bros rejected.
The series failed to achieve much success, much as Freleng had predicted: Though skillfully animated, the characters could not compete with the " funny animals " that prevailed at the time.
One of the first Looney Tunes shorts directed by Freleng during his second tenure at the studio was You Ought to Be in Pictures, a short which blended animation with live-action footage of the Warner Bros. studio ( and of Schlesinger veterans such as story man Michael Maltese and even " Leon " himself ).
Schlesinger's hands-off attitude toward his animators allowed Freleng and his fellow directors almost complete creative control and room to experiment with cartoon comedy styles, which allowed the studio to keep pace with the Disney studio's technical superiority.
Freleng was occasionally the subject of in-jokes in Warner cartoons, with billboards in the background of scenes advertising various products called " Friz " in Canary Row, the " Hotel Friz " in Racketeer Rabbit, and " Frizby the Magician " in High Diving Hare as one of the acts Bugs is pitching.
After the Warner studio closed in 1963, Freleng rented the same space from Warners to create cartoons with his now-former boss, producer Dave DePatie ( the final producer hired by Warners to oversee the cartoon division ), forming DePatie-Freleng Enterprises.
Freleng later served as an executive producer on three 1980s Looney Tunes compilation features, which linked together several of the classic shorts with new animated sequences.
" As the feature was compiled by Jones ( along with Friz Freleng ), the complete omission of Clampett is not surprising.
He also created Speedy Gonzales for the 1953 short Cat-Tails for Two and directed many others periodically ( along with Freleng and other directors ) for the remainder of his theatrical career.
After the studio reopened, Freleng and Jones quickly re-assembled their respective units, but McKimson discovered every member of his previous team, apart from Pierce and background painter Dick Thomas, refused to work with him again.
McKimson died in 1977 from a massive heart attack while eating lunch with Friz Freleng and David H. DePatie.
Beginning with I Like Mountain Music ( 1933 ), other animated Cantor cameos include Shuffle Off to Buffalo ( Harman-Ising, 1933 ) and Billboard Frolics ( Friz Freleng, 1935 ).
Clampett's colleague Friz Freleng directed a cartoon titled Goldilocks and the Jivin ' Bears in 1944, essentially Coal Black remade with a different fairy tale, and Warner's director Chuck Jones directed a series of shorts starring a prepubescent African hunter named Inki from 1939 to 1950.
It was produced by Leon Schlesinger and directed by Friz Freleng, with musical supervision by Carl W. Stalling.

Freleng and was
The cartoon was dedicated to Friz Freleng, who had passed on in 1995.
Disney went to New York in February 1928 to negotiate a higher fee per short and was shocked when Mintz told him that not only did he want to reduce the fee he paid Disney per short but also that he had most of his main animators, including Harman, Ising, Maxwell, and Freleng but not Iwerks, who refused to leave Disney under contract and would start his own studio if Disney did not accept the reduced production budgets.
By the end of the decade, a new Schlesinger production team, including directors Friz Freleng, Tex Avery, Robert Clampett, and Chuck Jones was formed.
The character was designed by animator Bob Clampett and introduced in the short I Haven't Got a Hat ( first released on March 9, 1935 ), directed by Friz Freleng.
A color remake of Porky in Wackyland was supervised by Friz Freleng in 1948.
Animation director Chuck Jones noted that Bugs Bunny soon began to outwit Yosemite Sam ( the creation of the senior director, Friz Freleng ), so he decided to create the opposite type of character ; one who was quiet and soft-spoken, but whose actions were incredibly destructive and legitimately dangerous.
One of these was Friz Freleng, whom Schlesinger promoted to oversee production of Looney Tunes and to develop the sister series, Merrie Melodies.
Isadore " Friz " Freleng ( August 21, 1906 – May 26, 1995 ) 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.
Freleng was born in Kansas City, Missouri, where he began his career in animation at United Film Ad Service.
DePatie-Freleng was commissioned to create the opening titles for the 1963 film The Pink Panther, for which layout artist and director Hawley Pratt and Freleng created a suave, cool cat character.
Clampett's story won first prize was made into My Green Fedora, also directed by Freleng.
Clampett's style was becoming increasingly divergent from those of Freleng and Jones, the other unit directors, and this is thought by some to be the primary reason for his departure.
" However, a viewing of the early Bugs cartoons of the late 1930s and early 1940s clearly demonstrates that the character was not " created " as a whole at one time, but rather evolved in terms of personality, voice, and design over several years through the efforts of Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Cal Dalton and Ben " Bugs " Hardaway, Robert McKimson, Sr., and Mel Blanc, in addition to Clampett's contributions.
With his fiery, irascible temper, short stature ( in two early gags in Hare Trigger, a train he is attempting to rob passes right over top of him and he has to use a set of portable stairs to get on his horse ; in Bugs Bunny Rides Again, he rides a miniature horse ), and fiery red hair, Sam was in some ways an alter-ego of Freleng.
However, in the Looney Tunes Golden Collection, surviving members of his production crew assert, and the late director's daughter acknowledges, that Sam definitely was inspired by Freleng.
When the studio went to full color, even the animators themselves did not make any creative distinction between the two series, as evidenced in an interview quote from director Friz Freleng " I never knew if a film I was making would be Looney Tunes or Merrie Melodies, and what the hell difference would it make, anyway ?".

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