UPA’s “Gay Purr-ee” on Records
With such a stellar cast and songwriting team, powerhouse studio marketing and a who’s-who of artists behind it, UPA’s second feature couldn’t miss, right?
Tag Archives: Chuck Jones
Animation Anecdotes #334
President Bill Clinton entertained animator Chuck Jones in the Oval Office in February 1993. Clinton confided, “I often feel like Wile E. Coyote trying to achieve the impossible.”
Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award 1966
Only nine cartoons were qualified and screened for nomination in 1966. But what an interesting mix of Hollywood theatricals, quirky independents and superb international shorts.
Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1965
This year marked an increase in the actual number of short films submitted – and the quality all-around was quite high.
Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1954
Once again an overload of Paramount submissions, two really good Warner Bros. cartoons, a visually spectacular Donald Duck and an independent film from John Wilson.
Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1952
Imagine you are attending the preliminary screenings for the 1952 cartoon short Oscar nominations – watching everything from Little Audrey to Norman McLaren.
Quiz Show Cartoons – Part 3: “The Ducksters” (1950)
Director Chuck Jones and writer Michael Maltese have Duffy Duck as the downright sadistic host of “Truth or AAAAHHH!” – sponsored by the Eagle Hand Laudry.
Animation Anecdotes #310
Chuck Jones told the Union newsletter in 1976: “I suppose you could call it retroactive plagiarism, because we stole Izzie Klein’s idea of a little boy ghost ten years before he created Casper.”
Animation Anecdotes #308
“His almost limitless ability to understand the essence of a character and to invest himself into its being is what made him so consummate an artist,” said Chuck Jones of Mel Blanc.
Animation Anecdotes #306
Author and historian Leonard Maltin recalls, “Like most kids, I would scribble in my books – but where it would say ‘The End’, I would take a crayon and write ‘A Walt Disney Production’.”
