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. . . Featurettes included on the 15 DVD discs THROUGH Looney Tunes Golden Collections, Volume 4, Disc 3, the nearly hour-long documentary FRIZ ON FILM running as a "Special Feature" on this last-mentioned 15th silver spinning wheel will weave little new yarn. However, it provides more coherent insight about not only Looney Tunes director Freleng, but also the entire Animation Industry as it existed when Warner Bros. was the New York Yankees of the Cartoon World, but crooked umpires were continually bribed to put in "the fix" for either Disney or-Horrors!--MGM, with such blatantly Buffoonish cheating that it makes Chicago's infamous Black Sox Boys of 1919 look like Choir Girls in comparison. Almost all of the few Oscars the corrupt Golden Statuette givers gave to Warners went to Freleng shorts, since he was the Anal Retentive Perfectionist (ARP) of the Looney Bunch. When America's CIA forced Warners to can its Cassandra-like Prophetic Animation Division for "Public Morale" purposes, live-action features director Blake Edwards insured that the kid-sized Friz stayed in Pictures as the PINK PANTHER animator.

. . . Leonard-I are shorter and more to-the-point than F-R-I-Z ON FILM. For instance, take THINK PINK: HOW TO DRAW THE PINK PANTHER, included as a bonus feature on Disc 5 of Pink Panther Collection, a DVD set with all 124 theatrically released panther animated shorts made available by MGM in 2005. This concise lesson has a running time of a mere 4 minutes, 15 seconds, during which Art completes a trio of renderings of America's favorite tall cat. Does this mean that anyone with four minutes to spare can make their living as an animator? Probably not. But I've always enjoyed watching glass-blowers at work, and seeing animators at their sketch pads is somewhat fun, as well.