Cadaverous Pallor
03-28-2008, 10:14 AM
We had an event (http://www.cityoforange.org/news/displaynews.asp?NewsID=729&targetid=2) at the library this week. Well, is it an event if only 4 people show up? We couldn't get the paper to cover it and hence, no attendance. Apparently the last time we did one of these in partnership with the Chuck Jones Center for Creativity (http://www.chuckjonescenter.org/), (which is actually in Orange, a block away from the library) people showed up.
I got to attend as the AV person. Chuck Jones' daughter Linda Jones Clough gave the presentation. She showed two cartoons that I'd never seen before.
First, The Night Watchman (http://toolooney.goldenagecartoons.com/nightwatchman.htm). I couldn't find a video online, bummer. It's Chuck's directorial debut. Not great, but a piece of history nonetheless. Linda brought some actual production cels from this to show. Amazing.
Then she showed Go Fly a Kit (http://youtube.com/watch?v=PqXeDINHJkI), a fantastic piece of classic mid-century Chuck Jones awesomeness. I'm so glad I found this on youtube so you guys can see it!
She also brought a recording from her personal collection. Chuck had spoken to a group of Disney animators in 1992. He complemented them on Aladdin, saying that he was jealous of such a funny full length feature. He also said that he saw what they were working on with Lion King and that it, too, looked fantastic, and like they were having a great time making it.
He talked about how drawing things head on was nearly impossible. When talking about drawing someone's knee head on, he mentioned "I couldn't draw the son of a bitch". Here we are in a public setting, with a kid there - it was pretty funny. But it didn't stop there.
Seems that when Snow White came out all the animators went to see it, of course. The guys asked Friz Freleng (director of many WB shorts) if he wanted to make a full-length animated feature. Friz said, "I need a full-length animated feature like I need two assh0les." Chuck said he and the guys thought Friz needed two of them since he had "so much of the stuff". Oh man, I wished I could have seen the face of our prim library director (or at least the kid and him mom), but I was in the front next to the projector. Heh.
At one point Linda couldn't think of the name of a film and I called it out - Spirited Away. At one point an audience member asked what Chuck thought of computer animation, and true to form, she said he always thought it didn't matter what tools you use, it's all about character and story. She says he mentored Lasseter and was a Pixar fan.
I wished more people showed up, but it was neat anyway. Too bad it was a weekday, I would have invited everyone.
I got to attend as the AV person. Chuck Jones' daughter Linda Jones Clough gave the presentation. She showed two cartoons that I'd never seen before.
First, The Night Watchman (http://toolooney.goldenagecartoons.com/nightwatchman.htm). I couldn't find a video online, bummer. It's Chuck's directorial debut. Not great, but a piece of history nonetheless. Linda brought some actual production cels from this to show. Amazing.
Then she showed Go Fly a Kit (http://youtube.com/watch?v=PqXeDINHJkI), a fantastic piece of classic mid-century Chuck Jones awesomeness. I'm so glad I found this on youtube so you guys can see it!
She also brought a recording from her personal collection. Chuck had spoken to a group of Disney animators in 1992. He complemented them on Aladdin, saying that he was jealous of such a funny full length feature. He also said that he saw what they were working on with Lion King and that it, too, looked fantastic, and like they were having a great time making it.
He talked about how drawing things head on was nearly impossible. When talking about drawing someone's knee head on, he mentioned "I couldn't draw the son of a bitch". Here we are in a public setting, with a kid there - it was pretty funny. But it didn't stop there.
Seems that when Snow White came out all the animators went to see it, of course. The guys asked Friz Freleng (director of many WB shorts) if he wanted to make a full-length animated feature. Friz said, "I need a full-length animated feature like I need two assh0les." Chuck said he and the guys thought Friz needed two of them since he had "so much of the stuff". Oh man, I wished I could have seen the face of our prim library director (or at least the kid and him mom), but I was in the front next to the projector. Heh.
At one point Linda couldn't think of the name of a film and I called it out - Spirited Away. At one point an audience member asked what Chuck thought of computer animation, and true to form, she said he always thought it didn't matter what tools you use, it's all about character and story. She says he mentored Lasseter and was a Pixar fan.
I wished more people showed up, but it was neat anyway. Too bad it was a weekday, I would have invited everyone.