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Tom & Jerry: The Chuck Jones Collection

Chuck Jones. The Sweatbox Review: The very first Tom & Jerry cartoon, Puss Gets The Boot, arrived on theatrical screens in 1940, and came so early in creators Bill Hanna…

Pretty as a picture: Chuck Jones retrospective

…forward to sharing the creative genius of Chuck Jones with the citizens of Tempe and environs. As Chuck Jones famously said, ‘any project is 99% hard work and 1% love…

Chuck Jones: Extremes And Inbetweens, A Life In Animation

…A testament to the life, work and vigor of legendary cartoon director Chuck Jones’, from animation’s pioneering days to some of the last footage of Jones’ before his passing. He…

Newport Beach Film Festival announces the "Chuck Jones Award"

…with great pleasure and delight that the Jones family and Trustees of the Chuck Jones Center for Creativity participate in this wonderful festival,” stated Linda Jones Clough, daughter of Chuck

The Art and Entertainment of Chuck Jones event

…collection from the archives of the Chuck Jones Foundation, showing the development of Chucks work from though process to creation of his characters and fine art. Eric Goldberg, a friend…

Art and Entertainment of Chuck Jones reminder

Just a reminder of the “Art and Entertainment of Chuck Jones” event going on tomorrow, November 20, at The Laguna College of Art and Design and the Chuck Jones Center…

Tom & Jerry: Chuck Jones Collection DVD in June

…and 2 bonus documentaries titled, “Tom and Jerry…and Chuck” and “Chuck Jones: Memories of a Childhood.” List of the cartoons along with the official package artwork can be found here….

Chuck Jones Newport Beach Gallery Grand Opening Day 2

Just a reminder that Day 2 of the Grand Opening of the Chuck Jones Gallery at Fashion Island in Newport Beach is later today from 1pm to 4pm. Special guests…

Chuck Jones Newport Beach Gallery Grand Opening

This has just come to our attention (thanks to Larry Loc’s ASIFA-Hollywood Blog), but later today and tomorrow, 1pm to 4pm each day, the Chuck Jones Gallery at Fashion Island…

The Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Ultimate Collector’s Edition Volume One

…the “charm” of Pepe LePew. From the original DVD release of the documentary Chuck Jones: Extremes And Inbetweens, the additional featurette A Chuck Jones Tutorial: Tricks Of The Cartoon Trade…

Chuck Jones Gallery Grand Opening Followup

The ASIFA-Hollywood Blog has been updated with a report and photos from Day 2 of the Chuck Jones Gallery Opening. Bill Melendez of Peanuts fame was the star of the…

Looney Tunes’ Mouse Chronicles

…the legend of Chuck Jones has only grown, thanks to the unending work his family continues to do in honoring his name through the Chuck Jones Center for Creativity, and…

The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume Three

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1963-1967), CLV box set with extensive booklet liner notes, 3 discs/6 sides, 34 complete cartoon shorts produced or directed by Chuck Jones, 5 hours, 1.33:1 original full-frame ratio, Digital…

Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Five

…which Ali Baba Bunny is certainly one. A fantastic Chuck Jones short which demonstrates Bugs ‘n’ Daffy’s always tempestuous relationship, this one has the pair making the usual wrong turn…

Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull: 2-Disc Edition

…40s or early 50s Jones…why not set the movie in the mid-1940s and have things feel a little more Indiana Jonesey? 0:09:19 = The remains appear to be magnetic, so…

Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Two

…making the Chuck Jones masterpiece and its influential effect (though there’s no mention of the hilarious homage in Mel Brooks’ SpaceBalls, nor Jones’ own many-years-later sequel, Another Froggy Evening, or…

Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume Two

…Boid with Barrier, plus another Tortoise Beats Hare track with Chuck Jones. Kausler speaks on Tortoise Wins By A Hare and Russian Rhapsody, Ford and Jones comment for Rabbit Fire,…

Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Six

Jones playing with Daffy at his looniest) and Jumpin’ Jupiter (a pretty surreal Jones effort) follow, but it’s Freleng’s Satan’s Waitin’ that really stands out, mainly for the animation of…

Warner Bros. Academy Award Animation Collection: 15 Winners, 26 Nominees

…number of animated characters owed their continuing series shorts to Oscar winning introductions, and the WB debut of Chuck Jones’ Pepe Le Pew came in For Scent-imental Reasons (1949), which…

Chuck Jones honored with Museum Of The Moving Image’s What’s Up, Doc?
The Essential Daffy Duck

…the early 1950s, Daffy’s design became a little more pointed and somewhat awkward, which was Robert McKimson’s visual answer to Chuck Jones’ taking the character and making him more of…

Dr. Seuss’s Holidays On The Loose!

Chuck Jones Enterprises/DePatie-Freleng (1966, 1977, 1982), Warner Home Video (October 18 2011), 2 discs, 76 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital, Not Rated (nothing offensive), Retail:…

Gay Purr-ee

…Review: In the grand scheme of things, Chuck Jones will always be remembered chiefly as the instigator behind many of the best Looney Tunes cartoon shorts, and the best animated-cats-in-France-musical…

Tom & Jerry: Deluxe Anniversary Collection

…it to a single disc release of their own, but absolutely none of them are included here. Their lacklustre popularity led MGM to tap Chuck Jones’ Tower 12 Productions with…

Plympton over at Chuck’s

Animation Legend Bill Plympton is set to spread his wings over at the Chuck Jones Gallery in San Diego, where a reception and exhibition will be held to celebrate his…

Tom and Jerry: Fur Flying Adventures Vol. 3

…filler than anything. After all, how many times can you watch an unoriginal chase scene? An early Chuck Jones short “The Unshrinkable Jerry Mouse Jones” (1964) follows. The story goes…

Animated Con-versation: AN&V at Comic-Con 2008!

…cluelessly stumbled upon none other than the Chuck Jones Gallery, which was celebrating Comic-Con by bringing in DC Comics and sci-fi movie art. I was quite thrilled with my discovery,…

The Essential Bugs Bunny

…but it was by Chuck Jones’ wonderfully animated Elmer’s Candid Camera two years later that the character had almost reached the end of his initial development, via a somewhat Groucho…

Horton Hears A Who!: Deluxe Edition

MGM Television/Chuck Jones Enterprises/Cat In The Hat Productions (1970), Warner Home Video (March 4 2008), single disc, 26 mins plus over 2½ hrs of supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio,…