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After the war, Jones returned to Termite Terrace with a vengeance. Classics like "Bugs Bunny and the 3 Bears," "Rabbit Hood" (featuring an Errol Flynn cameo), and Daffy Duck's "The Scarlet Pumpernickel" poured out of his imagination and into history. Two of his shorts won Oscars: the 1949 documentary "So Much for So Little" and 1951's "For Scent-imental Reasons."
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In 1933, Friz Freleng hired Jones to work at Leon Schlesinger Productions, the studio that produced Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for Warner Bros. Jones joined Tex Avery's team, which was banished to a nearby bungalow for space reasons. This became the infamous "Termite Terrace."
When Warner Bros. closed Termite Terrace in 1953, Jones joined Disney. However [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he quickly realized that the only job he wanted at the Mouse House was Walt's. Since Walt Disney was unlikely to give that up, Jones quit and rejoined a revived Warner Bros. animation unit.
At Termite Terrace, Jones discovered creativity fostered by negligence. Schlesinger didn't care what his animators did as long as they produced work that sold. This allowed them to pursue their muses wherever they wished.
But he did so much more. While giving Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd and Daffy Duck some of their most memorable moments, Jones created classic characters like the Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote, Marvin the Martian, Pepé le Pew, Michigan J. Frog and many others.
One of Jones' biggest achievements was permanently altering the Bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck dynamic: changing the once wacky sidekick into Bugs' inept rival.
If Chuck Jones (September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002) had stopped after "Duck Amuck," "One Froggy Evening," "What's Opera, Doc?" and "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," he would still be considered one of the greatest animators.
He continued with Warner until 1962, when his bosses discovered he had
"Chuck Jones (is) . . . the most influential individual in the history of animated film," claims film professor Bill Schaffer. "As a creator of globally recognised, intimately recalled, yet highly specific cartoon characters . . . (he) has no peer."
"Bugs is who we want to be," said Jones. "Daffy is who we are."
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After graduating from the Chouinard Institute, Jones began washing cels for former Disney animator Ube Iwerks. There, Jones met his first wife: Dorothy Webster.
Charles Martin Jones was born on September 21 [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 1912 in Spokane, Washington, and his family moved to Hollywood, California. His father ran a series of unsuccessful businesses [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], whose failures provided Jones with an endless supply of pencils and paper. He claimed that, by his high school graduation, he had produced over 200,000 drawings.
And there was "Duck Amuck," "One Froggy Evening," and "What's Opera, Doc?" Inducted into the National Registry in 1994, these 3 shorts are universally acclaimed masterpieces.
While Avery mocked Disney's cartoons, Jones' initial shorts were slavish imitations: lavish but humourless. It was only with 1942's "Dover Boys" that Jones "learned how to be funny."
In the 1940's, he drew the Private Snafu shorts that educated soldiers about army life, and befriended the writer: an aspiring children's author named Theodor Geisel.