The Pink Phink
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Film series The Pink Panther Duration | 7.8/10 IMDb Genre Animation, Family, Comedy Story by John W. Dunn | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Language Not language specific Director Friz FrelengHawley Pratt Release date December 18, 1964 Writer John W. Dunn (story) Directors Friz Freleng, Hawley Pratt Music director Henry Mancini, William Lava Similar The Pink Panther in: A Pink Christmas, The Pink Panther in: Pink at First Sight, The Pink Panther (1963 film) |
The pink panther in the pink phink
The Pink Phink is a 1964 animated short comedy film, directed by Friz Freleng and Hawley Pratt. It is the first animated short starring Blake Edwards' Pink Panther.
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- The pink panther in the pink phink
- Pink panther the pink phink 1964
- Plot
- Academy Award
- Credits
- Laugh track
- Popular culture
- References

Pink panther the pink phink 1964
Plot
The Pink Panther and an unnamed painter (known as the "Little Man") compete over whether a house should be painted blue or pink. Each time the painter attempts to paint something blue, the panther thwarts him in a new way, and paints the object/area pink. At the end, the exasperated painter inadvertently turns the house and everything around it pink (first by repeatedly shooting at the elusive panther with a shotgun that the panther had poured pink paint into, and then by burying the panther's pink paint cans in the soil outside the house, where they "sprout"), and the panther moves in. But just before he moves in, he paints the white man completely pink. The painter gets upset and bangs his head against the mailbox outside. The Pink Panther then walks into the house as the sun (also turned pink) sets and the cartoon fades out.
Academy Award
The Pink Phink was the first Pink Panther animated short produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises and by winning the 1964 Academy Award for Animated Short Film, it marked the first time that a studio won an Academy Award with its very first animated short.
Credits
Laugh track
A laugh track was added to the theatrical Pink Panther cartoons when they were broadcast as part of the Pink Panther Show aired on NBC, and this laugh track still appears on when the show is aired on the Spanish language Boomerang TV channel, and the France Channel Gulli. Most American broadcasts currently air minus the laugh track. The Pink Phink can be viewed in its original form with full titles and sans laugh track on The Official Pink Panther channel on YouTube.
Popular culture
References
The Pink Phink WikipediaThe Pink Phink IMDb The Pink Phink themoviedb.org