Tweetie Pie

Tweetie Pie is a 1947 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng and produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, depicting the first pairing of Tweety and Sylvester.

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1947 - Merrie Melodies - Friz Freleng - Warner Bros. Cartoons - Tweety - Sylvester

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When Tweety's creator, director Bob Clampett left the Warner Bros. studio in 1945, he was working on a fourth film starring Tweety, whom he was pairing with the Friz Freleng-created Sylvester, whom he had paired with Porky Pig in his cartoon Kitty Kornered (released in 1946). Freleng picked up the Tweety project, and basically merged it with a project he was working on: a followup to his second Sylvester cartoon Peck Up Your Troubles, featuring Sylvester in persuit of a little woodpecker. When Freleng decided to replace the woodpecker with Tweety, producer Eddie Selzer objected, and Freleng threatened to quit. Selzer allowed Tweety to be used, and the resulting film went on to win Warner Brothers' first Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons).

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Bob Clampett - 1945 - Friz Freleng - Porky Pig - Kitty Kornered - 1946 - Peck Up Your Troubles - Eddie Selzer - Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons)

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