Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...name-Charles M. Jones, when a producer wanted him to sound classy, or Chuck Jones, as he now prefers to bill himself-is scarcely known outside the movie business. Jones has spent his nearly 40-year career in the ebullient but usually anonymous medium of the animated cartoon...
...pretensions of grand opera (What's Opera, Doc?, Rabbit of Seville), made black comedy out of nuclear warfare a decade before Dr. Strangelove (Duck Dodgers in the 24½ Century), played with the mechanics of film making (Duck Amuck, which might be called the Persona of animated cartoons), and lampooned every movie genre from cops to swashbucklers. His One Froggy Evening, starring a mysterious singing frog called Michigan J., is a morality play in cameo that comes as close as any cartoon ever has to perfection...
...attested by The Hollywood Cartoon, a current retrospective series at the New York Cultural Center, Jones' body of work is uniquely rich, subtle and inventive. His cartoons compare favorably in their vividness and variety with the best work from the Disney Studios. Perhaps they are not as innovative, but they are funnier, madder, certainly more deeply and consistently personal...
MONDAY: B.C.--The First Thanksgiving. Grog! A prehistoric turkeyshoot for Harvard pre-schoolers of all classes. Cartoon. CH. 4. 8 p.m. Color...
TUESDAY: A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. Turkey with Peanut dressing. Cartoon. CH.7. 8 p.m. Color...