So Much for So Little

So Much for So Little is a 1949 documentary short directed by Charles M. Jones and Friz Freleng.
== Plot ==
Little Johnny Jones, to be born in the next year, is growing to a ripe, healthy old age, thanks to the efforts of his local public health officers. But without them, he might be one of the five percent or so that dies in the first year. The price for the public health service is about three cents a week.
== Availability ==
LT Golden Collection 1.jpg|(2003) DVD Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 1, Disc Three (part of ToonHeads: The Lost Cartoons)
Golden Collection box 2.jpg|(2004) DVD Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2, Disc Four
Lt academy award animation collection.jpg|(2008) DVD Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection, Disc 1 (restored)
51LA0AzTVqL. SL500 AA300 .jpg|(2011) Blu-ray Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 1, Disc Three (restored in SD)
LTPC VOL 2 Blu Ray.jpg|(2012) Blu-ray Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 2, Disc Three (part of ToonHeads: The Lost Cartoons)
== Notes ==
* This short won the 1950 Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) alongside "A Chance to Live", making it the first animated film to accomplish so and resulting in the first exact tie at the ceremony.https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1950https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8xnTMj3nys
** It is also the second Chuck Jones-directed cartoon to win an Oscar that year, the other being "For Scent-imental Reasons".
* As this short was created for the United States government, it was never copyrighted, thus it is in the public domain in the United States.
* The short had been considered lost since its release. However, in 1997, the short was discovered at the UCLA Film and Television Archive by Jerry Beck and George Feltenstein, and was originally planned to be included as supplemental material on The Golden Age of Looney Tunes: Volume 5 Laserdisc set. It was scrapped when Turner Entertainment and Warner Bros. were unwilling to cooperate.http://www.dohtem.com/bugs/history/history2.htm The short eventually made its home video debut on Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1 as part of ToonHeads: The Lost Cartoons. It was later included as a standalone short on Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 2 as a bonus feature. The short was restored on the Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection in 2008.
== Gallery ==
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==References==
Category:Shorts
Category:Cartoons directed by Chuck Jones
Category:Cartoons directed by Friz Freleng
Category:Cartoons written by Chuck Jones
Category:Cartoons written by Friz Freleng
Category:Cartoons produced by Eddie Selzer
Category:Cartoons with layouts by Robert Gribbroek
Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by Paul Julian
Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by Peter Alvarado
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with sound effects edited by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
Category:Cartoons with orchestrations by Milt Franklyn
Category:1949
Category:Public domain films
Category:Academy Award winners