p. cm.
ISBN 0-374-52620-6 (pbk.)
1. Jones, Chuck [date]. 2. Animators—United States—Biography. I. Title.
NC1766.U52J66 1989
741.5'8'092—dc20
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89-1444
eISBN 9781466836020
First eBook edition: January 2013
* From James Joyce’s Ulysses, but Johnson said it first.
* Although it is not a parody but a real speech, I found it, curiously enough, in a book called Parodies.
* There is often talk of the Golden Age of animated cartoon short subjects. There were actually two. The first was the great years of the Disney shorts, beginning in 1933 with The Three Little Pigs and continuing through 1939. Nearly all the great writers, directors, and animators of that period went on to features such as Snow White. Our period of most effective production was lit by the spark of A Wild Hare in 1940. The full fruition was evident in the postwar period, 1945 to 1963. We would have been properly embarrassed by the term “Golden Age.” To paraphrase George Sterling: “He only in a Golden Age lives who knows not he is there.”
* As reported, a couple of years later Jack demonstrated his knowledge of the value of the cartoons by selling all the pre-’48 cartoons (probably four hundred of them) for $3,000 apiece. It is a matter of record that each of these four hundred cartoons has averaged over $5,000 a year in rentals alone.
* Years later Leonard Levinson, who owned Impossible Productions (“This is Impossible”), produced a travelogue about London, opening on a shot of the city as the fog came in, obliterating the entire screen. Against only this gray mass, the narrator commented for eight minutes on the wonders of the great capital.
* Da Capo Press paperback, 1975.
† Joe Adamson, Tex Avery.
* The Coyote and Road Runner pictures were exceptions to this rule.
* The notes on Duck Dodgers are in some forgotten limbo.
* This is as good a time as any to bend a grateful knee to designer Liney Li, who, through patience, artistry, and wisdom, somehow managed to make a recognizable quilt out of these patches.
* There is a difference: hoboes are willing to work.
† Spanish and, I think, Urdu.
‡ Sound effects on The Great Race.
*Scarecrow Press, 1981.
