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How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966, Ben Washam and Chuck Jones)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Dec 25, 2017
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! has three rather distinct things going on throughout the twenty-six minute television special. It also some some indistinct things going on–the Whoville songs, while charming, are nowhere near as impressive as the big things. First, but not foremost, is Washam and Jo read more
Shorts, A Tiny Blogathon: What’s Opera Doc?
Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Annmarie Gatti on May 2, 2015
Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit! Okay, anyone who knows me, knows that I’m a huge Looney Tunes fan — so how happy am I to be writing about “What’s Opera, Doc?” for this Tiny Blogathon? Well, I’m smiling right now — and I haven’t even begun watc read more
“What’s Up, Doc? The Animation Art of Chuck Jones” Exhibit at The Museum of the Moving Image
Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Annmarie Gatti on Oct 15, 2014
Celebrating the Incredible and Inimitable Genius of Chuck Jones at NYC’s Museum of the Moving Image…
“Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit”… Yes I still have that song in my head! Really! As a matter of fact, I sang the song all weekend long to anyone who would listen as I read more
Legend Tribute: Chuck Jones
Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Annmarie Gatti on Sep 21, 2014
Born September 21, 1912 Animator and Director Chuck Jones! “Animation isn’t the illusion of life; it is life!” -Chuck Jones I cannot really put into words how I feel about Chuck Jones and his artistry… All I know is that when I saw some of his sketches at the Smithsonian read more
Baby Buggy Bunny (1954, Chuck Jones)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jun 18, 2014
Baby Buggy Bunny opens with its weakest sequence–a bank robbery. The perpetrator is a baby-sized thug who gets away by throwing on a bonnet and hopping in a carriage. Clearly there are some Baby Herman connections, especially later on when the robber and Bugs Bunny start battling. Bugs gets i read more
Celebrating 100 Years of Chuck Jones: From A to Z-Z-Z-Z (1953)
True Classics Posted by on Sep 22, 2012
Ralph Phillips is bored, bored, bored. While his schoolmates mindlessly chant their math lesson (“Two and two is four. Four and four is eight …”), Ralph stares dreamily out the classroom window, imagining himself as a bird, flipping and flying freely through the sky–un read more
Celebrating 100 Years of Chuck Jones: The Dot and the Line (1965)
True Classics Posted by on Sep 22, 2012
After Warner Bros. terminated his long-term contract in 1962, Chuck Jones moved on to MGM, producing a series of cartoons featuring that studio’s famed pair, Tom and Jerry. Jones’ time wasn’t completely consumed by the antics of the cat and mouse, however; the animator/direc read more
Celebrating 100 Years of Chuck Jones: The “Hunting” Trilogy
True Classics Posted by on Sep 21, 2012
“Oh, I dream about being Bugs Bunny, but when I wake up, I’m Daffy Duck.” –Chuck Jones In Chuck Jones’ hands, the Daffy Duck of the 1930s and 40s–loopy, zany, whooping loudly, flipping out–went through a bit of a personality overhaul in the 50s. The zaniness read more
Celebrating 100 Years of Chuck Jones: Rabbit of Seville (1950)
True Classics Posted by on Sep 20, 2012
Seven years before Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd dueled their way through a hilarious take on the music of Wagner in What’s Opera, Doc?, the duo tackled Italian composer Rossini in 1950′s Rabbit of Seville. Rabbit of Seville is the brainchild of director Chuck Jones, writer read more
Celebrating 100 Years of Chuck Jones: Feed the Kitty (1952)
True Classics Posted by on Sep 19, 2012
The 1950s were arguably the most prolific decade, artistically speaking, of animator/director Chuck Jones’ career. It was the decade that saw Jones take the stock Warner Bros. characters to new heights: he took Daffy Duck and made him an open antagonist to Bugs Bunny (and vice versa, at least read more
Robin Hood Daffy (1958, Chuck Jones)
The Stop Button Posted by on May 8, 2012
Robin Hood Daffy is an unappealing mix of pointless, dumb and bewildering. Besides Porky beating up Daffy (Porky’s Friar Tuck, Daffy’s apparently Robin–more on that one in a bit), Jones’s gags all seem recycled from a Wile E. Coyote cartoon. It’s Daffy swinging around read more
Hare Conditioned (1945, Chuck Jones)
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 28, 2012
Embarrassingly, I didn’t understand Hare Conditioned‘s title until I looked it up online. No, I won’t tell you. The cartoon is an enthusiastic chase through a department store, with star window attraction Bugs Bunny about to be shipped off the to taxidermy department. Bugs is lika read more
Martian Through Georgia (1962, Chuck Jones, Abe Levitow and Maurice Noble)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 24, 2012
Martian Through Georgia has three directors and no ending. It also has nothing to do with Georgia. It opens fairly well, with very expressionist mainstream cartooning showing life on Mars. A bored Martian then travels to Earth, which kicks off the majority of the run time. Even though the Martian&# read more
Fresh Airedale (1945, Chuck Jones)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 13, 2012
Fresh Airedale opens without titles and I’m a little surprised to see it’s Chuck Jones. The animation is rather weak for the most part and, while there’s inventiveness, it’s chaste. The cartoon has either a mixed message or just a depressing one. It’s all about a socio read more
Duck Amuck (1953, Chuck Jones)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 10, 2012
Duck Amuck is either very memorable or very predictable. If I have ever seen it, it was fifteen plus years ago. Yet I could guess a bunch of the plot twists, including the final one. That final reveal, which might make Amuck memorable, also undoes a lot of the neat stuff the cartoon does otherwise. read more
Baton Bunny (1959, Chuck Jones and Abe Levitow)
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 28, 2012
Baton Bunny casts Bugs as a perfectionist conductor who, during a performance, has to cope with wardrobe malfunctions and a bothersome fly. The most interesting thing about the cartoon–and something I’ve never seen from a Bugs Bunny cartoon before–is how co-directors Jones and Lev read more
Now Hear This (1962, Chuck Jones and Maurice Noble)
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 21, 2012
Now Hear This is a fairly amazing cartoon. It’s even more amazing when one considers it’s a Warner Bros. cartoon under the “Looney Tunes” banner. Jones and co-director Noble play with the idea of sound as it relates to movies. I suppose cartoons specifically, but it’s read more
Hook, Line and Stinker (1958, Chuck Jones)
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 14, 2012
I don’t get it. I haven’t seen a Road Runner cartoon since I was a kid, but watching Hook, Line and Stinker, I couldn’t figure out the appeal. Oh, Jones’s direction is outstanding and the animation is great, but it’s a long series of gags. They’re not laugh out l read more
Feed the Kitty (1952, Chuck Jones)
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 4, 2012
A tough bulldog adopts an adorable kitten in Feed the Kitty; a story Jones liked so much he remade it. This one, the original, manages to be charming without saccharine, maybe because of the really strange objectification of the dog’s lady owner. She kicks up her skirt at one point, revealing read more
Rabbit Hood (1949, Chuck Jones)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 14, 2012
Rabbit Hood features some great voice work from Mel Blanc. Some of the responsibility falls on Jones and writer Michael Maltese, of course, since they put Bugs Bunny in Sherwood Forest with the Sheriff of Nottingham as an antagonist… but Blanc makes the cartoon memorable. Bugs has some great read more