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Many of Jones ' cartoons of the 1930s and early 1940s were lavishly animated, but audiences and fellow Schlesinger staff members found them lacking in genuine humor.

Often slow-moving and overbearing with " cuteness ", Jones ' early cartoons were an attempt to follow in the footsteps of Walt Disney's shorts ( especially with such cartoons as Tom Thumb in Trouble and the Sniffles cartoons ).

Jones finally left traditional animation conventions with the cartoon The Dover Boys in 1942.

Jones credits this cartoon as the film where he " learned how to be funny.

" The Dover Boys is also one of the first uses of stylized animation in American film, breaking away from the more realistic animation styles influenced by the Disney Studio.

This was also the period where Jones created many of his lesser-known characters, including Charlie Dog, Hubie and Bertie, and The Three Bears.

Jones ' shorts from this period starring these characters represent some of his earliest classics that were strictly intended to be funny.