DePatie-Freleng Enterprises (or DFE Films) was an animation production company founded by Warner Bros Cartoons alumni Isadore 'Friz' Freleng and David H. DePatie in 1963. Animator Freleng had joined Walt Disney in 1927 and helped launch Harman-Ising Productions in 1930, initially making cartoons under producer Leon Schlesinger for Warner Bros. Pictures. Leon Schlesinger Productions took over Warners animations from 1933, being renamed Warner Bros. Cartoons in 1944, and Friz Freleng was a senior director and animator for almost its entire existence. David H. DePatie became executive head of the animation department in 1961, and after Warners quit the cartoon business in 1963 DePatie-Freleng was launched and continued to operate in the old Warners cartoon plant in Burbank, complete with equi