Freddy the Freshman
| Freddy the Freshman | |
|---|---|
| Merrie Melodies series | |
| Directed by | Rudolph Ising |
| Produced by |
Leon Schlesinger Hugh Harman Rudolph Ising |
| Music by | Frank Marsales |
| Animation by |
Isadore Freleng Paul Smith |
| Studio | Harman-Ising Pictures |
| Distributed by |
Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date(s) | February 20, 1932 (USA) |
| Color process | Black and white |
| Running time | 7 min |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Pagan Moon (1932) |
| Followed by | Crosby, Columbo, and Vallee (1932) |
Freddy the Freshman is a 1932 animated short film, directed by Rudolph Ising for Harman-Ising Pictures as part of Warner Bros.' Merrie Melodies series.
Synopsis
Freddy the Freshman, "the freshest kid in town" and a canine "big man on campus", crashes a college pep rally, and then proceeds to become the star of the big campus football game.
Background
The cartoon is built around "Freddy The Freshman, The Freshest Kid in Town", a song written by Cliff Friend and Dave Oppenheim and part of the Warner Bros. publishing library. Following its use in this cartoon, "Freddy The Freshman, The Freshest Kid in Town" would turn up as an incidental score cue (usually relating to football in some way) in many later Warner Bros. cartoons. In "Raw! Raw! Rooster!", the song is sung by the character of Rhode Island Red, rival and nemesis to Foghorn Leghorn. The Freddy the Freshman cartoon short is today in the public domain.
Edited versions
When this cartoon aired in the late 1990s on Cartoon Network's show Late Night Black and White (an installment show featuring black and white shorts from Warner Bros. and Fleischer Studios), the brief shot of the cheerleaders (three stereotypically Jewish birds - with beak noses and pennants written in Hebrew - and a rooster in a tuxedo who acts stereotypically homosexual) during the game was cut.
See also
External links
- Freddy The Freshman at the Internet Movie Database
- Freddy the Freshman at the Big Cartoon Database
- Freddy the Freshman at Toon Zone
- Freddy the Freshman on YouTube