Engaging read on how the Bugs Bunny cartoon What’s Opera, Doc? was made. “To get the extra work done, Jones and his crew secretly shaved a couple weeks off other, easier films and faked their time cards. It was something they did on occasion.”
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There’s a case to be made (I would make it) that Chuck Jones is the greatest short form artist in history — better than Bill Watterson, Jack Kirby, Flannery O’Connor, you name it
Often reminded of a quote in Neal Gabler's Walt Disney book from a Disney animator watching Warner cartoons: "It was like admiring the kind of dame that you couldn't introduce to your mother."
Interesting, it never occurred to me that this was a “satire of Fantasia,”
See also The Masterpiece That Defined The Looney Tunes: What's Opera, Doc?:
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