This scene is taken from an actual “freeze-frame” from the Looney Tunes cartoon short entitled, Knighty Knight Bugs, released in 1958 under the direction of Friz Freleng. In the film, which won an Academy Award, Bugs Bunny is King Arthur’s hapless court jester, who is challenged to recover the prized singing sword from its kidnapper, The Black Knight, played by Yosemite Sam. Sent out to retrieve it, Bugs sneaks into the villain’s castle, while Black Knight Sam and his treacherous fire-breathing, cold-ridden, sneezing dragon are sleeping. After a series of animated exchanges, Sam finally finds himself holed up in the dungeon with his dragon in a room full of explosives and says- “don’t sneeze, ya stupid dragon, or you’ll blow us to the moon!”-- which he does!! According to Director Friz Freleng, “Yosemite Sam was a perfect adversary for Bugs Bunny,” casting him as a pirate, cowboy, an Arab, a knight, a Roman Legionnaire, a confederate soldier, etc. “I put him in a different costume in almost every picture,” remarked Freleng. And, one can just hear Sam proclaiming himself, “the roughest, toughest, rootin-tootin’est riffiest raff to ever riff a raff,” yelling at the top of his lungs.
Isadore “Friz” Freleng
Producer, director, writer and animator, Friz Freleng was the creator of numerous popular cartoon characters, including Yosemite Sam. He directed over 300 cartoons, featuring such favorites as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Sylvester, and Speedy Gonzalez. Beginning as an animator in 1924, he moved to Walt Disney Studios in 1927 and then onto Warner Bros. in 1930, where he became head animator and producer until 1962. Nominated for numerous Academy Awards, Freleng was awarded Oscars for Tweety Pie in 1947, Speedy Gonzalez in 1955, Birds Anonymous in 1957, and Knighty Knight Bugs in 1958. In 1963, Freleng and David DePatie created the DePatie-Freleng Studio, specializing in films and commercials featuring The Pink Panther. Among the three main WB Directors, Freleng had an extraordinary and genius sense of timing to juxtapose sequences of fast, often frantic action with moments of calm.
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