We're going to find tuning with Drew Taylor, one stop shop when it comes to animation news and

commentary. I'm Drew's co-host, entertainment writer Jim Hill, and he are recording this show

on Friday, October 15th, 2021. This week's show begins on kind of a sad note. We lost two

huge talents this week, didn't we? Yes, we did. It was not it was not a great week for for a

legendary people in the animation sphere, but they all had they had very long and productive lives.

So I'm heartened by that. That is true. So should we go ladies first or do we want to talk

about Mr. DePatti first? Well, why don't you talk about Mr. DePatti because I don't know

as many people know about him. All right, well, David H. DePatti started his career

Warner Brothers Animation back in the early 1960s. Ironically, just as they're getting out of

the theatrical show business, we know him today largely because he teamed up with Frizz Freeling.

He was one of the very first animators to work with Walt. He actually worked in the Alice

comedies as well as the Oswald shorts. Frizz eventually decamped from Disney wound up at

turn my terrace where he helped the talented animators at Warner's launched the Looney Tunes series.

Warner Brothers closes its animation cities in 64, but Dave and Frizz team up the form

DePatti Frilling Enterprises. They are working out of the exact same building,

Termite Terrace, that all of the great Warner Brothers shorts were produced in.

But the character that puts them on the map is the Pink Panther, created for the title sequence

of Black Edwards, March of 54 comedy. The character gets spun off immediately into his own

series of shorts. And the very first short in the series, The Pink Fink, gets released in

December 64 and takes home that year's Oscar for Best Animated Short. Before Richard Williams

took over, didn't he do the intros? Yeah, he did. Return of the Pink Panther and Pink Panther strikes

again. But again, DePatti Frilling did Saturday morning cartoons, Likewise Animated Specials,

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