Talk:Chuck Jones

message: I removed the "Controversy" section. It's very much violating our NPOV policy, as it's an opnion shared by some people, but not by many others. --b. Touch 03:14, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  RE: "Controversy" 

message: This story about Jones being fired from Warner Brothers as a result of writing "Gay Purr-ee" sounds a bit fishy for a number of reasons, the main one being the timeline. More than a year before "Gay Purr-ee" was released, ALL of the Warner Brothers animation staff was laid off. The animation unit always maintained a substantial backlog of cartoons, so WB continued to release Looney Toons and Merrie Melodies up until 1964. WB probably would have stopped releasing cartoons at that point if the newly formed DePatie-Freling studio had not offered to make more cartoons using the WB characters, albiet with a substantially lower budget. 
The point is, by the time "Gay Purr-ee" hit the theaters, Jones was already gone. So if Chuck Jones was fired for writing "Gay Purr-ee", it must have happened well before the film's release. This seems unlikely. Does anyone have any references to back this up?
Jones remained at Warner's up to July 23, 1962, as explained in this thread. Apparently the Warner's executives saw Jones' name in the credits several months before "Gay Purr-ee" was released on October 24. The last Bugs Bunny cartoon, False Hare, was in production in late November 1962 and the studio closed in early 1963. --Angilbas 08:14, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I know this thread's been dead for over a year, but I just have to open this issue up again. That thread simply contains the claim (if a very detailed version), unsourced. Jones, in his book Chuck Amuck and during several personal appearances, flatly and invariably said he was laid off with everyone else when Jack W. closed the studio. The article's source note, an external link titled "An Interview with Chuck Jones," is misleading as Jones says there what I just said he always said. The interviewer, Michael Barrier, does claim in an aside to his readers that this is not true and references his book with an account of the alleged Gay Purr-ee situation. Not good enough for me, especially since he states this interview was conducted in 1969, meaning Chuck was consistent about this beginning shortly after it happened until his death. For comparison to another WB cartoon shop alumnus with low credibility claims, Mel Blanc's various statements of B.S. can be found only in his last decade or so, and the evidence contradicting him is very convincing and often conclusive. Furthermore, many other relevant works, such as Leonard Maltin's Of Mice and Magic, fail to indicate anything of the sort happened. Sorry, but until and unless I read Barrier's book and find it well-sourced and convincing (which I don't expect to be the case), I have to disbelieve this and I don't believe it should be in the article as a flat fact. To be fair, it shouldn't flatly say Jones was laid off with everyone else, either. --Ted Watson (talk) 22:57, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Was Jones Really Fired Over "Gay Purr-ee"? 

message: I removed the following text added on July 22nd by an anonymous contributor:
"Another criticism of Jones is his deliberate and vicious smear campaign against Bob Clampett. In the 1940's, Clampett's cartoons were the most popular, while Jones's were not. Leon Schlesinger told the other directors to "Be like Clampett". Jones, who was described as being a cold, calculating person with a large ego, did not take kindly to this. In the late 1960s and 70s Jones spread false rumors about Bob, even creating pamphlets full of lies to hand out to animation fans. This eventually destroyed Bob's reputation, while Chuck wrote a book taking credit for things he had atacked Bob for taking credit for."
I have heard stories about this within the animation community and is the Clampett side of the Clampett-Jones fued.  Until it is cited with references and changed to NPOV, it should not be included in an encyclopedic article. Jeff schiller 21:51, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clampett Smear Campaign 

message: Jones started Chuck Jones Enterprises in 1963, and this lasted till at least the 80's or 90's (some says it did animation for feature movies like Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)). Then we have Chuck Jones Productions, which was created in the early 70's (I don't know when it closed). And from 1962-1970, we have Sib Tower 12 Productions. And finally there is Chuck Jones Film Productions (1993-1997). Seems like he created a lot of animation studios, but it's all confusing. What is what, and did he work in two or three studios at once? 193.217.194.114 23:39, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: A little confusing

message: Maureen Furniss published a collection of interviews related to Jones, so someone could use that. WhisperToMe (talk) 22:59, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Source that could be used

message: Chuck Jones was NOT working at Walt Disney Feature Animation, he died in 2002.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.148.6.118 (talk) 00:42, 20 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chuck Jones for Walt Disney Feature Animation 

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message: Chuck Jones did not created Hercules as a Disney character.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.64.226.32 (talk) 23:04, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
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message: How come no mention of the 1990 Looney Tunes Topps baseball card set of 297 cards that was drawn by Chuck Jones?  (Or, for that matter, any of the baseball card sets that Jones did?)
Since both front and back of most of the cards had artwork done by Jones, that means he created nearly 600 new drawings featuring most of the popular Looney Tunes (and Merrie Melodies) cartoon characters.
And some of the drawings were done using techniques (like water color) that Jones experimented with but that the general public is not familiar with.
Just wondering. 2600:8800:784:8F00:C23F:D5FF:FEC4:D51D (talk) 06:13, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Blogs are generally not considered reliable 3rd party sources - no editorial oversite.THX1136 (talk) 23:43, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Looney Tunes baseball cards 

message: Here's a interesting story that I found on the internet. Some Looney Tunes nerd actually called Chuck before he died, and here's some sources that I found.
http://boootooons.blogspot.com/2008/01/my-conversation-with-chuck-jones.html
Junkrak (talk) 22:01, 2 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Blogs are generally not considered reliable 3rd party sources - no editorial oversite.THX1136 (talk) 23:43, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Trevor Thompson