{"id":22619,"date":"2020-09-22T15:15:46","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T12:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/?p=22619"},"modified":"2020-09-22T13:26:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T10:26:58","slug":"chuck-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/chuck-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Jones: Animation pioneer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/static.tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pub\/images\/alg_chuck-jones_6952.jpg\" alt=\"Chuck Jones (Creator) - TV Tropes\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Chuck Jones was an animator, producer, and director of animated films, a pioneer in the field, and a three-time Academy Award winner <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">for directing, with an impressive body of work and achievements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">September 21 marks Jones\u2019s birthday. To celebrate, we\u2019re taking a look at his life and work, <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Read also:<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/the-success-story-of-a-former-criminal-turned-into-a-famous-millionaire-entrepreneur\/\">The Success Story of a Former Criminal Who Became a Famous Millionaire Entrepreneur<\/a><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Chuck Jones was born on September 21, 1912.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Jones joined Leon Schlesinger Productions, which produced Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies for Warner Bros.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">He worked as an in-between animator in 1933, and in 1935 was promoted to animator, working with the new director Tex Avery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Avery and Jones, along with animators Bob Clampett, Virgil Ross, and Sid Sutherland, moved into a nearby building they called<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\"> \u201cTermite Terrace.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">When Clampett was promoted to director in 1937, Jones was assigned to his unit, but he was not promoted to director until 1938, when <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Frank Tashlin left the studio, and his first project was \u201cThe Night Watchman,\u201d which introduced an innocent-looking little cat and became the basis <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">for the character Sniffles the Mouse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Chuck Jones introduced many characters, such as Charlie Dog, Hubie and Bertie, and the Three Bears, who appeared in the early episodes of<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\"> the funny Jones shows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">During World War II, Jones worked with Theodor Geisel, known as Dr. Seuss, to produce the Private Snafu series <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">for the U.S. Army. The series was an educational comedy for American soldiers, covering topics such as spies and slacking off in <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">\u0627\u0644\u0639\u0645\u0644.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Jones later worked with Dr. Seuss on other projects, most notably How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Jones\u2019s output increased from the late 1940s through the 1950s, and he created many shows featuring new characters such as Claude Cat, Mark<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\"> Anthony and Bosko, Michigan J. Frog.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">-He introduced some of his best-known characters, including Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, and Pepe Le Pew. Some of his work <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">(co-created with its writer, Michael Maltese) has been regarded as among the greatest animated cartoons of all time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">-He directed many classic animated cartoons starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, Pepe <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Le Pew, and other Warner Bros. cartoon characters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">-After leaving Warner Bros. in 1962, Jones founded Sib Tower 12 Productions to produce animation for the company<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\"> MGM, including the Tom and Jerry series.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">He then started his own company, Chuck Jones Productions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">From 1977 to 1978, Jones wrote and illustrated the comic strip *Crawford* for the Chicago Tribune\u2013New York News Syndicate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">In 1978, his wife Dorothy died. Three years later, he married Marian Dern, writer of the comic strip *Rick O\u2019Shay*.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Jones helped design the London Film Museum in 1988 and received an honorary degree from Oglethorpe University. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">\u0639\u0627\u0645 1993\u0645.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Jones directed more than 300 animated films and won three Academy Awards for directing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">He received an Honorary Academy Award in 1996 from the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for \u201cthe creation of classic cartoons and cartoon characters whose animated existence has brought joy to our real lives for more than half a century.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">\u0627\u0644\u0645\u062a\u062d\u0631\u0643\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0643\u0644\u0627\u0633\u064a\u0643\u064a\u0629 \u0648\u0634\u062e\u0635\u064a\u0627\u062a\u0647\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u064a \u0639\u0627\u0634\u062a \u062a\u0642\u062f\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0639\u0627\u062f\u0629 \u0644\u0623\u0634\u062e\u0627\u0635\u0646\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u062d\u0642\u064a\u0642\u064a\u0629 \u0644\u0623\u0643\u062b\u0631 \u0645\u0646 \u0646\u0635\u0641 \u0642\u0631\u0646\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Jones\u2019s last Looney Tunes cartoon was From Hare to Eternity (1996\/1997), starring Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">(with Bugs voiced by Greg Burson). The cartoon was dedicated to Friz Freleng, who died in 1995. Before that, his last Road Runner cartoon was Chariots of Fur <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">(1994) \u0622\u062e\u0631 \u0639\u0645\u0644 \u0644\u0647 \u0641\u064a \u0639\u0631\u0648\u0636 \u0631\u0648\u062f \u0631\u0646\u0631.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Chuck Jones died on February 22, 2002, in California, United States.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u062a\u0634\u0627\u0643 \u062c\u0648\u0646\u0632 \u0647\u0648 \u0631\u0633\u0627\u0645 \u0648\u0645\u0646\u062a\u062c \u0648\u0645\u062e\u0631\u062c \u0623\u0641\u0644\u0627\u0645 \u0631\u0633\u0648\u0645 \u0645\u062a\u062d\u0631\u0643\u0629\u060c \u0648\u0648\u0627\u062d\u062f \u0645\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u062c\u062f\u062f\u064a\u0646 \u0641\u064a \u0647\u0630\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u062c\u0627\u0644\u060c \u0648\u062d\u0627\u0632 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u062c\u0627\u0626\u0632\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0648\u0633\u0643\u0627\u0631 \u062b\u0644\u0627\u062b \u0645\u0631\u0627\u062a \u0641\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0625\u062e\u0631\u0627\u062c\u060c \u0648\u0644\u062f\u064a\u0647 \u0633\u062c\u0644 \u062d\u0627\u0641\u0644<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_ibtdi_aa_focus_keyword":"","_ibtdi_aa_secondary_keywords":"","_ibtdi_aa_audience":"","_ibtdi_aa_tone":"","_ibtdi_aa_summary":"","_ibtdi_aa_reviewer_name":"","_ibtdi_aa_reviewer_bio":"","_ibtdi_aa_reviewer_url":"","_ibtdi_aa_reviewed_date":"","_ibtdi_aa_service_id":"","_ibtdi_aa_related_ids":"","_ibtdi_aa_human_reviewed":"","_ibtdi_aa_disable":"","_ibtdi_aa_disable_links":"","_ibtdi_aa_sources":"","_ibtdi_aa_update_notes":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[491],"tags":[22303,22304,22305,9054,22306,22302,22307,22308],"class_list":["post-22619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-491","tag-22303","tag-22304","tag-22305","tag-9054","tag-22306","tag-22302","tag-22307","tag-22308"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}