Charles Martin " Chuck " Jones ( September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002 ) was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio.

After his extraordinary career at Warner Bros. ended in 1962, Jones started Sib Tower 12 Productions and began producing memorable cartoons for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, including a new series of Tom and Jerry shorts and the television adaptation of Dr. Seuss ' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

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 ).

Also, during World War II, Jones directed such shorts as The Weakly Reporter, a 1944 short that related to shortages and rationing on the home front.

Jones also produced the 1979 film The Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Movie which was a compilation of Jones ' best theatrical shorts ; Jones produced new Road Runner shorts for The Electric Company series and Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales ( 1979 ), and even newer shorts were made for Bugs Bunny's Bustin ' Out All Over ( 1980 ).

From 2001-2002 Cartoon Network aired The Chuck Jones Show which features shorts directed by him.

Cartoon Network aired a 20-second segment with black dots tracing Jones ' portrait with the words " We'll miss you-Cartoon Network " fading in on the right-hand side, which aired during a four-hour installment of The Looney Tunes Show that featured nothing but Chuck Jones ' most memorable cartoon shorts.

This was the second of three animated shorts by Jones to receive this honor ( the others are 1957's What's Opera, Doc?

Jones has the distinction of being the only director () with three animated shorts in the registry.

Warner Bros shut down the Original Termite Terrace studio in 1963 and DePatie-Freleng Enterprises assumed production of the shorts, licensed by Warner Bros. After DePatie-Freleng ceased production of Looney Tunes in 1967, Bill Hendricks was put in charge of production of the newly-renamed Warner Bros .- Seven Arts animation studio, and hired veterans such as Alex Lovy and LaVerne Harding from the Walter Lantz studio, Volus Jones and Ed Solomon from Disney, Jaime Diaz who later worked on The Fairly OddParents as director, and David Hanan, who previously worked on Roger Ramjet.

A decade later, after the success of the film, The Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Movie, which consisted predominately of footage from the classic shorts by Jones, a new in-house studio to produce original animation opened its doors in 1980 named Warner Bros.

Jones teamed with Les Goldman to form Sib Tower 12 Productions to work with MGM on the Tom and Jerry series in the mid-1960s ; his shorts were not as popular as the Hanna-Barbera originals but more so than the Gene Deitch shorts produced overseas in the early 1960s.

This led to what was essentially a co-directing stint with fellow animator Chuck Jones for the financially ailing Ub Iwerks, whom Schlesinger subcontracted to produce several Porky Pig shorts.

Clampett's colleague Friz Freleng directed a cartoon titled Goldilocks and the Jivin ' Bears in 1944, essentially Coal Black remade with a different fairy tale, and Warner's director Chuck Jones directed a series of shorts starring a prepubescent African hunter named Inki from 1939 to 1950.

General Jones was fresh from a long series of bridge burnings, including the long bridge at Fairmont, and, after seeing a great drove of horses and cattle he had collected safely across the bridge, he sent his men to work piling combustibles in and around it.

Jones had been about a hundred and fifty feet from her when he first broke through to the top of the Reef.

So: Means edged around on the north side of her, Jones moved in from the south.

Ruth himself, still owning his farm in Massachusetts and an interest in the Massachusetts cigar business that printed his round boyish face on the wrappers, had led the parade down from Fenway Park, followed by pitchers Carl Mays, Leslie `` Joe '' Bush, Waite Hoyt, Herb Pennock, and Sam Jones, catcher Wally Schang, third baseman Joe Dugan ( who completed the `` playboy trio '' of Ruth, Dugan, and Hoyt ), and shortstop Everett Scott.

Sandman told the gathering that reports from workers on a local level all over the state indicate that Jones will be chosen the Republican Party's nominee with the largest majority given a candidate in recent years.

* 1973 – Adam Willard, American drummer ( The Offspring, Rocket from the Crypt, Danko Jones, and The Special Goodness )

point of view, are the beautiful, full-figured women like Daisy Mae, Wolf Gal, Stupefyin ' Jones and Moonbeam McSwine ( a caricature of his wife Catherine, aside from the dirt )— all of whom found their way onto the painted noses of bomber planes during World War II and the Korean War.

The sound can be heard, for example, when Spike Jones sings " Der Fuehrer's Face " ( from the 1942 Disney animated film of the same name ), repeatedly lambasting Adolf Hitler with: " We'll Heil!

The perjury charge arose from Clinton's testimony about his relationship to Lewinsky during a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by former Arkansas state employee Paula Jones.

Bob Jones, Sr. was leery of academic accreditation almost from the founding of the college, and by the early 1930s, he had publicly stated his opposition to holding regional accreditation.

Bob Jones, Sr. argued that if members of Graham ’ s campaign executive committee had rejected major tenets of orthodox Christianity, such as the virgin birth and the deity of Christ, then Graham had violated 2 John 9-11, which prohibits receiving in fellowship those who do “ not abide in the teaching of Christ .” In the 1960s, Graham further irritated fundamentalists by gaining the endorsement of Cardinal Richard Cushing for his Boston campaign and accepting honorary degrees from two Roman Catholic colleges.

Late in 1971, BJU filed suit to prevent the IRS from taking its tax exemption, but in 1974, in Bob Jones University v. Simon, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that the university did not have standing to sue until the IRS actually assessed taxes.

" In 1982 BJU's then-president Bob Jones III, during interviews in which he defended the school's tax-exempt status, cited nine passages from the Bible-drawn both from the Old and New Testaments-which he claimed demonstrated that God intended races to be segregated: " The Bible clearly teaches, starting in the 10th chapter of Genesis and going all the way through, that God has put differences among people on the earth to keep the earth divided ", he said, adding that inter-racial marriage was " playing into the hands of the antichrist and the one-world system.

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Former Crowded House drummer Peter Jones died from brain cancer on 18 May 2012 aged 49.

He also noted that the " feud " that there may have been between Jones and colleague Robert Clampett was mainly because they were so different from each other.

After graduating from Chouinard Art Institute, Jones held a number of low-ranking jobs in the animation industry, including washing cels at the Ub Iwerks studio and assistant animator at the Walter Lantz studio.

With business partner Les Goldman, Jones started an independent animation studio Sib Tower 12 Productions, bringing on most of his unit from Warner Bros., including Maurice Noble and Michael Maltese.

Jones, the second to last surviving animation director from the " Termite Terrace " days of the WB cartoons, died of heart failure in 2002.

* " Chuck Jones " by John Canemaker from Cartoonist PROfiles # 45 ( March 1980 )

In 1995, Jones lured All-Pro cornerback Deion Sanders away from San Francisco, and Dallas once again posted a 12 – 4 regular season record.

However, not only did he reject the title of Dominus during his reign, but since he issued no official documentation or coinage to this effect, historians such as Brian Jones contend that such phrases were addressed to Domitian by flatterers who wished to earn favors from the emperor.

From 1906 onwards, Jones was an active member of the International Phonetic Association, and was Assistant Secretary from 1907 to 1927, Secretary from 1927 to 1949, and President from 1950 to 1967.

The period of Darling's captaincy saw the emergence of outstanding Australian players such as Trumper, Warwick Armstrong, James Kelly, Monty Noble, Clem Hill, Hugh Trumble and Ernie Jones.

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 remained at Warner Bros. throughout the 1950s, except for a brief period in 1953 when Warner closed the animation studio.

During this interim, Jones found employment at Walt Disney Pictures, where he teamed with Ward Kimball for a four month period of uncredited work on Sleeping Beauty ( 1959 ).

Jones presented 25 witnesses over a one-week period, including Dr. Frederic Whitehurst.

With a little more than a minute to go in the period, Bradshaw fumbled the ball while being sacked by Cowboys lineman Harvey Martin, and defensive end Ed " Too Tall " Jones recovered it.

Porter had refined the recipe for Newcastle Brown Ale alongside chemist Archie Jones over a period of three years.

But as Jones ( 2009 ) points out, Esterházy was hardly alone in doing this ; during this same period, " the steady decline in the number of orchestras supported by aristocratic families represented a ... change that affected all composers and their works.

After a period in analysis with Freud, Riviere worked with Jones as the translation editor of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and then on the a working group Jones set up to plan and deliver James Strachey ’ s translations for the Standard Edition of Freud ’ s work.

With the ' New Testament ' Basie band in full swing, and arrangements written by a young Quincy Jones, this album proved a respite from the ' Songbook ' recordings and constant touring that Fitzgerald was engaged in during this period.

His series often challenge popular views of history: for example, Terry Jones ' Medieval Lives ( 2004 ) ( for which he received a 2004 Emmy nomination for " Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming ") argues that the Middle Ages was a more sophisticated period than is popularly thought, and Terry Jones ' Barbarians ( 2006 ) presents the cultural achievements of peoples conquered by the Roman Empire in a more positive light than Roman historians typically have, while criticizing the Romans as the true " barbarians " who exploited and destroyed higher civilizations.

Greig's situation was similar to that of Felicity Jones who played Emma Carter in the series ; Jones, after a period studying at Wadham College, Oxford has moved into large TV parts, such as a starring role in Northanger Abbey.

With the ' New Testament ' Basie band in full swing, and arrangements written by a youthful Quincy Jones, this album proved a swinging respite from her Songbook recordings and constant touring she did during this period.

In early July, the free agent period began and with limited cap space the Heat signed local James Jones as the team's three-point specialist.

Since, according to the learned researches of Sir William Jones, Odin and Buddha are probably the same person, it is curious to see the names of Bondvar, Wodansdag, and Votan designating in India, Scandinavia, and in Mexico the day of a brief period.

The widowed Eurasian doctor Han Suyin ( Jones ) falls in love with the married-but-separated American correspondent Mark Elliott ( Holden ) in Hong Kong, during the period of China's Civil War in the late 1940s.

According to alternate theories of the term's origin, " Free State of Jones " came to be associated with Jones County for one of two reasons: 1 ) in reference to the county's reputation as a sparsely populated " backwater " of the young state, whose few residents were notorious for their disdain for organized governmental authority, or 2 ) due to a period of time in the early 1840s when, due to low population numbers and lack of legal proceedings, the county was left without duly-inducted legal and / or civil authorities.

In 1934 he underwent a brief period of pilot training with the Royal Air Force but this was not successful, and by 1935 he was living in London, where he married his first wife, Elizabeth Jones, in 1936.

During the 1920s, Expressionism enjoyed a brief period of popularity in American theatre, including plays by Eugene O ' Neill ( The Hairy Ape, The Emperor Jones and The Great God Brown ), Sophie Treadwell ( Machinal ) and Elmer Rice ( The Adding Machine ).

During the colonial period, Merrick became a trading center because vessels could enter Jones Inlet and sail up deep channels to docks beside what is now Merrick Road.