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"Chuck Jones (1912-2002), responsible for a host of classic Warner Brothers cartoons and the Road Runner's creator, was the most thoughtful and articulate great animation director. These dozen interviews, all conducted after Warner Brothers closed its animation unit in 1962, come from Jones's long stint as an elder statesman of animation and attest to how much thought and skill went into what are casually viewed as simple, seven-minute cartoons. The interviews come from various sources, including newspapers and radio shows. The best are lengthy conversations with well-informed interlocutors from film journals and animation zines. Jones attractively balances justifiable pride in his accomplishments and humorous self-deprecation. Although he received an honorary Academy Award in 1996, and his One Froggy Evening (1956) is on the Library of Congress's National Film Registry, he repeatedly states that he and his crew didn't regard themselves as artists while they were producing the cartoons, which they figured were pretty ephemeral. Their handiwork's persistent popularity on TV and in lavishly produced DVD sets shows how wrong they were.-- ""Booklist"""

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Maureen Furniss is Professor of Animation and Film at Savannah College of Art & Design, Georgia, and founding editor and publisher of Animation Journal.

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