Award Winning Series: Knighty Knight Bugs

Poised as a before and after sequence, these two images comes from Knighty Knight Bugs, the 1958 Academy Award-winning cartoon directed by Friz Freleng.
 

This piece shows the progression of a gag, where in the first scene, Yosemite tries to keep his fire-breathing dragon from sneezing while both are huddled inside a castle’s explosives-filled powder room. By the second scene, we see that Yosemite has failed as both he and the dragon, while still inside the same powder room, nonetheless sail upward like a rocket.
 

This is our second release taken from our Academy Award Winning Series, and comes with a reproduction of the original title card.
 

Friz Freleng is the most honored of the Warner Bros. Directors, having earned four Academy Awards during his career with the studio.
 

The characters for this cel were drawn by Juan Ortiz and the background was painted by Hector Martinez.