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Charles Martin Jones (September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002) was an American animator, painter, voice actor and filmmaker, best known for his work with Warner Bros. Cartoons on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of shorts. He wrote, produced, and/or directed many classic animated cartoon shorts starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, Pepé Le Pew, Marvin the Martian, and Porky Pig, among others. Jones started his career in 1933 alongside Tex Avery, Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett, and Robert McKimson at the Leon Schlesinger Production's Termite Terrace studio, the studio that made Warner Brothers cartoons, where they created and developed the Looney Tunes characters. During the Second World War, Jones directed many of the Private Snafu (1943–1946) shorts which were shown to members of the United States military. After his career at Warner Bros. ended in 1962, Jones started Sib Tower 12 Productions and began producing cartoons for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, including a new series of Tom and Jerry shorts (1963–1967) as well as the television adaptations of Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966) and Horton Hears a Who! (1970). He later started his own studio, Chuck Jones Enterprises, where he directed and produced the film adaptation of Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth (1970). Jones's work along with the other animators was showcased in the documentary, Bugs Bunny: Superstar (1975). Jones directed the first feature-length animated Looney Tunes compilation film, The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (1979). In 1990 he wrote his memoir, Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist, which was made into a documentary film, Chuck Amuck (1991). He was also profiled in the American Masters documentary Chuck Jones: Extremes & Inbetweens – A Life in Animation (2000) which aired on PBS. Jones won three Academy Awards. The cartoons which he directed, For Scent-imental Reasons, So Much for So Little, and The Dot and the Line, won the Best Animated Short. Robin Williams presented Jones with an Honorary Academy Award in 1996 for his work in the animation industry. Film historian Leonard Maltin has praised Jones's work at Warner Bros., MGM and Chuck Jones Enterprises. In Jerry Beck's The 50 Greatest Cartoons, a group of animation professionals ranked What's Opera, Doc? (1957) as the greatest cartoon of all time, with ten of the entries being directed by Jones including Duck Amuck (1953), Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (1953), One Froggy Evening (1955), Rabbit of Seville (1950), and Rabbit Seasoning (1952). Early life Charles Martin Jones was born on September 21, 1912, in Spokane, Washington, to Mabel McQuiddy (née Martin) (1882–1971) and Charles Adams Jones (1883–?). When he was six months old, he moved with his parents and three siblings to Los Angeles, California. In his autobiography, Chuck Amuck, Jones credits his artistic bent to circumstances surrounding his father, who was an unsuccessful businessman in California in the 1920s. He recounted that his father would start every new business venture by purchasing new stationery and new pencils with the company name on them. When the business failed, his father would quietly turn the huge stacks of useless stationery and pencils over to his children, requiring them to use up all the material as fast as possible. Armed with an endless supply of high-quality paper and pencils, the children drew constantly. Later, in one art school class, the professor gravely informed the students that they each had 100,000 bad drawings in them that they must first get past before they could possibly draw anything worthwhile. Jones recounted years later that this pronouncement came as a great relief to him, as he was well past the 200,000 mark, having used up all that stationery. Jones and several of his siblings went on to artistic careers. During his artistic education, he worked part-time as a janitor. After graduating from Chouinard Art Institute, Jones got a phone call from a friend named Fred Kopietz, who had been hired by the Ub Iwerks studio and offered him a job. He worked his way up in the animation industry, starting as a cel washer; "then I moved up to become a painter in black and white, some color. Then I went on to take animator's drawings and traced them onto the celluloid. Then I became what they call an in-betweener, which is the guy that does the drawing between the drawings the animator makes". While at Iwerks, he met a cel painter named Dorothy Webster, who later became his first wife. Career Warner Bros. Jones joined Leon Schlesinger Productions, the independent studio that produced Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies for Warner Bros., in 1933 as an assistant animator. In 1935 he was promoted to animator and assigned to work with a new Schlesinger director, Tex Avery. There was no room for the new Avery unit in Schlesinger's small studio, so Avery, Jones, and fellow animators Bob Clampett, Virgil Ross, and Sid Sutherland were moved into a small adjacent building they dubbed "Termite Terrace". When Clampett was promoted to director in 1937, Jones was assigned to his unit; the Clampett unit was briefly assigned to work with Jones's old employer, Ub Iwerks, when Iwerks subcontracted four cartoons to Schlesinger in 1937. Jones became a director (or "supervisor", the original title for an animation director in the studio) himself in 1938 when Frank Tashlin left the studio. The following year Jones created his first major character, Sniffles, a cute Disney-style mouse, who went on to star in twelve Warner Bros. cartoons. Jones initially struggled in terms of his directorial style. Unlike the other directors in the studio, Jones wanted to make cartoons that would rival the quality and design to that of ones made by Walt Disney Production. As a result, his cartoons suffered from sluggish pacing and a lack of clever gags, with Jones himself later admitting that his early conception of timing and dialog was "formed by watching the action in the La Brea Tar Pits". Schlesinger and the studio heads were unsatisfied with his work and demanded that he make cartoons that were more funny. He responded by creating the 1942 short The Draft Horse. The cartoon that was generally considered his turning point was The Dover Boys. Released the same year, it noticeably featured quickly-timed gags and extensive use of limited animation. Despite this, Schlesinger and the studios heads were still dissatisfied and begun the process to fire him, but they were unable to find a replacement due to a labor shortage stemming from World War II, so Jones kept his position. He was actively involved in efforts to unionize the staff of Leon Schlesinger Studios. He was responsible for recruiting animators, layout men, and background people. Almost all animators joined, in reaction to salary cuts imposed by Leon Schlesinger. The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio had already signed a union contract, encouragin.... Discover the Martin Jones popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Martin Jones books.
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Raising Standards in literacy using iPad Part I
Martin Leigh JonesRaising Standards in literacy using iPad case study project, completed by schools across Wales.
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Circus of Dreams
John WalshSomething extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young British writers took the literary novel into new realms o...
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The Domestication of Martin Luther King Jr.
Lewis V. Baldwin & Rufus Burrow Jr.Clarence B. Jones, close King advisor and draft speechwriter, has done much to reinforce a conservative hijacking of King's image with the publication of his controversial book...
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Healthy Dragons
Martin JonesHealthy Dragons is the project when seven schools worked on a Health and Wellbeing project and pupils created and collected content using Apple technology. Value Added Education i...
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Raising Standards in literacy using iPad Part III
Martin Leigh JonesRaising Standards in literacy using Apple technology Part III, this is the third book in the case study project by Teachers across Wales
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Till Victory Is Won
Janet Cheatham BellTaking its title from the moving lyrics of the official song of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," Till Victory Is Won chr...
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We Are Not Like Them
Christine Pride & Jo PiazzaA GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK Named a Best Book Pick of 2021 by Harper’s Bazaar and Real Simple Named a Most Anticipated Book of Fall by People, Essence, New York Post, Pop...
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Saying It Loud
Mark WhitakerMark Whitaker “writes with the eye of a journalist and ear of a poet” (The Boston Globe) to tell the story of the momentous year that redefined the civil rights movement as a new s...
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Rags Martin-Jones und der Prince of Wales
F. Scott FitzgeraldSeinen Weg zur Schriftstellerei fand Francis Scott Fitzgerald (18961940) zunächst durchaus nicht durch theoretische Überlegungen, sondern er kam eher aus praktischen Erwägungen zum...
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Buried
Elle CroftYou're trapped underground with a serial killer.Would you save their life to protect your own?The ArtistNo one knows who The Sculptor is. A successful artist, whose works sell for ...
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The Private Diaries Of Lola Jones And Perry Martin
Stark HunterThe Private Diaries of Lola Jones and Perry Martin represents Stark Hunters fourth published opus. His three other published works include the novel, InAGaddaDaVida (2002), his poe...
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Rags Martin-Jones and the Prince of Wales
Francis Scott FitzgeraldRags MartinJones and the Prince of Wales was written in the year 1924 by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. This book is one of the most popular novels of Francis Scott Fitzgerald, and has ...
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He Giveth More Grace
Annie Johnson FlintDiscover the inspirational poetry of Annie Johnson Flint a woman born on Christmas Eve 1886, and who the late Ravi Zacharias described as one of the greatest hymnwriters, and whos...
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G. F. Unger Western-Bestseller 2495
G. F. UngerDie Wasserstelle befindet sich gleich hinter der PassEnge. Eine dünne Quelle ist es, die aus einer der Felsspalten kommt und diese Quelle hier oben, so hoch am Pass, ist ein Wunde...
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Near-Death Experiences . . . and Others
Robert GottliebA new collection of immersive essays from the most acclaimed editor of the second half of the twentieth centuryThis new collection from the legendary editor Robert Gottlieb feature...
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Unbreakable
Ronnie O'SullivanAN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023'Reading this is like watching an O'Sullivan break: hypnotic, dazzling and impossibl...
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Breathing Out
Peggy Lipton, David Dalton & Coco DaltonPeggy Lipton's overnight success as Julie Barnes on television's hit The Mod Squad made her an instant fashion icon and the "it" girl everyonefrom Elvis to Paul McCartneywanted to ...
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Launch in to Space
Lucy JonesLucy is a Primary pupil in the UK who has been studying Space as her topic in school. Find out facts about space from this 6 year old Author / Illustrator (Now 7 years) and share s...
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G. F. Unger Sonder-Edition 63
G. F. UngerAls Bronco Ringloke dem Freund das Pferd stiehlt und ihn in die Gewalt der Verfolger fallen lässt, beginnt für ihn äußerlich ein schwindelnder Aufstieg. Auf der Heimatweide angekom...
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Blind Love
Peter MeyerA handsome overachiever...A beautiful honors student...Together they would commit savage murder...A Teenage Love Pact Sealed In BloodOutside a small Texas town by the side of the r...
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Spiritual Depression
D. Martyn Lloyd-JonesIf Christianity is such 'good news' why are its followers often unhappy?Spiritual Depression is one of the great classics of the modern Church, diagnosing the causes of the un...
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The Making of the Beautiful
Roland V. BinghamThis is the only known biography of the Christian poetess Annie Johnson Flint [18661932]. She was described by the late Ravi Zacharias, who often quoted her poem "He Giveth Mor...
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Maggie
Charles MartinThe moving sequel to bestselling author Charles Martin’s The Dead Don’t Dance. After slipping into a fourmonthslong coma following the tragic loss of their son in childbirth, ...
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Angel Creek
Linda HowardDesire came like a wildfire to the Colorado hills to claim a woman’s property...and her heart. From the New York Times bestselling author of A Lady of the West. For five years afte...
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H. C. Hollister 61
H.C. HollisterAls BullwhipJones die Brücke über den Smoky River passiert, nehmen die turbulenten Ereignisse in diesem von Fehden zerrissenen Becken ihren Anfang. Ob er will oder nicht Bullwhip ...
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Spadger, her friends and the Jewellery Box
Martin JonesSpadger and friends is the first book in a twelve book series of children’s stories. The characters are a collection of a girls favourite toy animals who live in her bedroom....
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The Hollow Crown
Miri RubinThere is no more haunting, compelling period in Britain's history than the later middle ages. The extraordinary kings Edward III and Henry V the great warriors, Richard II and He...
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Old Venus
George R.R. Martin & Gardner DozoisSixteen allnew stories by science fiction’s top talents, collected by bestselling author George R. R. Martin and multipleawardwinning editor Gardner Dozois From pulp adventu...
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Chasing Fireflies
Charles MartinWhen paramedics find a malnourished sixyearold boy near a burning car that holds a dead woman, they wonder who he isand why he won't speak. From the New York Times bestselling auth...
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Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les
F. Scott FitzgeraldFrancis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age....
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Serving Acceptably
Andy McIlreeMoses and the people left the bondage of one country to seek the blessings of another, believing that God was not only able to bring them out but to bring them in (Ex.6:7,8). They ...
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Grace Sufficient
Annie Johnson FlintThe late Ravi Zacharias described Annie Johnson Flint as one of the greatest hymnwriters, and this third volume of 100 of Annie's poems serves to provide additional evidence to...
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God Hath Not Promised
Annie Johnson FlintThe late Ravi Zacharias described Annie Johnson Flint as the greatest of hymnwriters, and this second of three newly published volumes of her work illustrates why she is held in su...
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A Season in the Snow
Isla Gordon'Heartwarming and full of hope. I loved it' HEIDI SWAIN, Sunday Times bestselling author 'The most beautiful, heartwarming story. Gorgeously cosy, uplifting . . . utterly lovely bo...
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The Lost
Mari Hannah'Nobody understands the many faces of cops better than Mari Hannah.' Val McDermid'Mari Hannah writes with a sharp eye and a dark heart.' Peter James'Thrilling, exciting and kept me...
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Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les
F. Scott Fitzgerald»Rags MartinJones and the Prnce of Wles« is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, originally published in 1924. F. SCOTT FITZGERALD [18961940] was an American author, born in St. ...
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Jones V. Martin
Supreme Court Of CaliforniaPlaintiff appeals from a judgment for defendants, except Mrs. Martin, in an action to recover attorney's fees. Defendants in the original complaint were Mrs. Martin, a labor union ...
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Parzival
Wolfram Eschenbach & A. HattoComposed in the early thirteenth century, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival is the recreation and completion of the story left unfinished by its initiator Chrétien de Troyes. It fo...
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The Game
George Howe ColtA New York Times Notable Book A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year From the bestselling National Book Award finalist and author of The Big House comes “a wellblended narrative pa...
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Ohne Maulkorb
Dolly BusterSchwer erziehbar? Ein Sexprotz gar? Der junge Beagle Lio fühlt sich von seinen Herrchen mächtig unverstanden. Wie gut, dass Dolly Buster in sein Leben schneit und ihn kurzerhand ad...
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The Blessings That Remain
Annie Johnson FlintThis anthology of poems has been compiled with the primary purpose of providing strength and comfort to those experiencing the grief of loss; but it is also hoped that it may serve...