Pink Plasma
| Pink Plasma | |
|---|---|
| Pink Panther series | |
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| Directed by | Art Leonardi |
| Produced by |
David H. DePatie Friz Freleng |
| Voices by | Art Leonardi |
| Music by | Walter Greene |
| Animation by |
Don Williams Bob Richardson Virgil Ross John Gibbs |
| Backgrounds by | Richard H. Thomas |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
| Release date(s) |
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| Color process | Deluxe |
| Running time | 6 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Forty Pink Winks |
| Followed by | Pink Elephant |
Pink Plasma is the 78th cartoon produced in the Pink Panther series. A total of 124 6-minute cartoons were produced between 1964 and 1980.
Plot
The Pink Panther is backpacking through Transylvania and stops to spend a night at a castle, believing it to be a lodge. It is in fact a vampire's castle also occupied by a hairy, knife-throwing hand, a Yeti-like phantom in squeaky shoes, and a shark in the moat. Thinking the vampire's coffin to be that of a dead man, the Pink Panther buries it. Dusk arrives, the coffin rumbles to surface, and the vampire emerges. The Pink Panther repeatedly tries to repel the vampire. This invariably causes the vampire to go out the window and fall into a moat, where he is preyed on by the shark. By the end, sunrise causes the vampire, shark, phantom, and castle to all disappear.
Notes
- Pink Plasma is a partial remake of Pink Panic.
- The Pink Panther Show contained a laugh track when the Pink Panther cartoons were broadcast on NBC-TV. Currently, the laugh track version airs on the Spanish language Boomerang TV channel.
- This was the first Pink Panther cartoon directed by Art Leonardi, who also provides uncredited voices of the invisible monster and the laughing skull. Leonardi also animated or wrote some of the earlier Pink Panther shorts.
Further sources
- Meet the Pink Panther; by Hope Freleng and Sybil Freleng , (Universe Publishing, 2005).
- The Pink Panther Classic Cartoon Collection (2006). [DVD set]. New York: MGM Home Video.
- DePatie-Freleng website
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