Redstone Theater some will be accompanied by Each weekend afternoon, the Museum will screen films directed by Chuck Jones Matinees, an ongoing series of screenings and programs, and education In conjunction with the exhibition, Museum of the Moving Image will present Chuck An interactive experience will allow visitors to take on the role of animationĭirector by manipulating character movement and timing. Bryan (Elmer Fudd), and excerpts from interviews The exhibition also includes behind-the-scenes audio of Jones directing Mel Blanc Romance in Lower Mathematics (1965), which expanded the boundaries of the cartoons as What’s Opera, Doc? and One FroggyĮvening (1955), and the Academy Award-winning short The Dot and the Line: A The films, shown as large wall projections and on monitors throughout the exhibition, Coyote, should move in a particular scene Īnd animation cels from Dr. The television special Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (1975), based on a story by Rudyard Kipling.Īmong the artifacts in the exhibition are a production sheet from Jones’s directorialĭebut The Night Watchman (1938) layout artist Maurice Noble’s background designsįor such popular favorites as Duck Amuck (1953) and Duck Dodgers in the 24½thĬentury (1953) a range of artwork created for Jones’s masterpiece What’s Opera,ĭoc? (1957) Jones’s character layout drawings that showed his animators how aĬharacter, such as Bugs Bunny or Wile E. winning public health film So Much for So Little (1949) and How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966) and Horton Hears a Who! (1970) films thatįeatured the hapless animated character Private Snafu, made for the U.S. With author Theodore Geisel on the enduringly popular television specials Dr. Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes series, the exhibition explores his collaborations ![]() In addition to the cartoons Jones made for the Warner Bros.’s Reveal how Jones and his collaborators worked together to create some of the greatestĬartoons ever made. Give insight into the animation process-and more than 125 original sketches andĭrawings, storyboards, production backgrounds, animation cels, and photographs that What’s Up, Doc? The Animation Art of Chuck Jones features 23 of Chuck Jones’sĪnimated films, a short documentary and an interactive experience-both of which in 1962, Jones continued toĬreate award-winning films, including his collaborations with Theodore Geisel (aka Dr. In a career that spanned sevenĭecades, he created more than 300 animated films and received an Academy Award®įor Lifetime Achievement. By 1933, he was an assistantĪnimator making cartoons distributed by Warner Bros. Trained as a fine artist, Jones graduated from the Chouinard Art Institute (nowĬalifornia Institute of the Arts) in Los Angeles in 1931. They are as funny today as when they were made.” Toy Story 2, and Chief Creative Officer at Pixar, said “Chuck Jones’s cartoons are useum of the Moving Image In an interview produced for the exhibition, John Lasseter, director of Toy Story and Marked by its ability to convey the distinctive personality of his characters, his endlessĬomic invention, and his mastery of timing and visual and verbal humor.” The art of animation as his hero Mark Twain was in literature,” said David Schwartz,Ĭhief Curator of Museum of the Moving Image, who curated the exhibition withīarbara Miller, the Museum’s Curator of the Collection and Exhibitions. “Chuck Jones is one of the enduring geniuses of American comedy, as accomplished in ![]() Museum, the exhibition will continue on a thirteen-city tour through 2019. The exhibition is a partnership between the Smithsonian Institution TravelingĮxhibition Service, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Chuck JonesĬenter for Creativity, and Museum of the Moving Image. Museum of the Moving Image in New York City on Jand will be on view ![]() What’s Up, Doc? The Animation Art of Chuck Jones, a new Smithsonian travelingĮxhibition that explores Jones’s creative genius, influences, and legacy, will open at He brought an unparalleled talent for comic inventionĪnd a flair for creating distinctive, memorable characters to the art of film animation. He perfected the wisecracking Bugs Bunny and theĮxasperated Daffy Duck and a host of other characters, including Wile E. Animation director and artist Charles Martin “Chuck” Jones (1912–2002) brought to life some of the most iconic cartoonĬharacters in animation history. Credit: Chuck Jones Center for Creativity / SITES ASTORIA, N.Y.
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