Word: freleng
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...finest efforts are missing because rights were not available. Vintage home movies of the animation unit are fun, but Filmmaker Jackson relies too much on the reminiscences of Cartoon Director Bob Clampett to fill in the facts. Clampett pays scant attention to his contemporaries-Tex Avery, Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones-and endeavors to portray himself as Looney Tunes' brightest light. The two best cartoons in the show, however, are the work of others...
...Freleng's Rhapsody Rabbit features Bugs as a concert pianist laying waste one of Liszt's Hungarian rhapsodies. Hair-Raising Hare, directed by Jones, pits Bugs against both a Peter Lorre prototype and the sneaker monster, showing the rabbit at his most unflappable. As he struggles to hold a wooden castle door closed against his pursuer, he calls out: "Is there a doctor in the house?" A silhouette appears on the screen, as if from the audience, and says: "Yes, I'm a doctor." Bugs, suddenly taking an insouciant munch on a carrot and ignoring the peril...
Jones and the other directors-Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett, Tex Avery -gathered periodically for what they called the "Period of the Big Yes" to share story ideas, gags, gimmicks. "There were no negatives allowed for the duration of the two-hour meeting," Jones recalls. "If you couldn't say anything positive, you couldn't talk...