The pink smear
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The pink smear |
| Original title | The Pink Phink |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1964 |
| length | 7 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Friz Freleng |
| script | John W. Dunn |
| production |
Friz Freleng , David H. DePatie for DePatie-Freleng Enterprises |
| music |
William Lava , Henry Mancini |
| cut | Lee Gunther |
| chronology | |
|
Successor → rose |
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The Pink Smear is a 1964 American animated short film directed by Friz Freleng .
action
A white man is painting a wall blue. The pink panther appears and paints the wall in pink unnoticed. The man tries to paint not only the walls, but also columns, stairs and entire rooms blue, but his attempts fail because the panther uses various tricks to color everything in pink faster and faster and unnoticed. At first, the man suspects the perpetrator to be a mouse, later a large mouse and finally catches the panther carrying paint buckets. He chases him with a shotgun , but the panther can fill it with pink paint. In the end, even the exterior of the house is shot at pink and then completely colored.
The man finally collects all the buckets of pink paint and buries them not far from the house. The flowers and trees that now arise are all pink in color and even the sun takes on this color. In the end, the panther paints the man pink, takes his things and moves into the villa. The man reacts angrily.
production
The pink smear was the first short animated film in the series The Pink Panther , which was developed as a reaction to the popular trick opening credits of the 1963 movie The Pink Panther . The pink smear was released on December 18, 1964.
It was the first, which started in cinema animation of the newly founded animation studio DePatie-Freleng Enterprises , which Friz Freleng after his departure at Warner Bros. had founded.
Awards
The Pink Phink won in 1965 the Oscar in the category " Best Animated Short Film ".
German version
In the version for German television, the plot is supplemented by rhyming comments from the off . The verses written by Eberhard Storeck are spoken by Gert Günther Hoffmann .
Web links
- The Pink Phink in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The pink smear on bcdb.com
- The Pink Panther: The Pink Smear on YouTube .
- Pink Panther - The Pink Phink (1964) on YouTube .