Just Whose Cartoons Are These?



I have been cataloging cartoons as of late. Yesterday I went through a knot of Schlesinger/Warner Bros. cartoon and the following shorts jumped off the screen at me. Look at the titles. What do they have in common?

• Rabbit Seasoning
  
• Long-Haired Hare
  
• Bully for Bugs
  
• Water, Water Every Hare
  
• My Bunny Lies Over the Sea
  
• What's Opera Doc
  
• My Bunny Lies Over the Sea
  
• Duck Amuck
  
• Drip-Along Daffy
  
• Scaredy Cat
  
• Wearing of the Grin
  
• Deduce, You Say
  
• Rabbit Fire
  
• Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 th Century
  
• Fast and Furry-ous
  
• The Awful Orphan
  
• Haredevil Hare
  
• For Scent-imental Reasons
  
• Frigid Hare
  
• The Hypo-Chordri-Cat
  
• Feed the Kitty
  
• Don`t Give Up the Sheep
  

Most of you said Chuck Jones, am I right? Yes, all these short films were directed by Chuck Jones, but there is another piece to the picture. Every one of these short animations started life in the brain of Mike Maltese.

Chuck would always, always talk about Mike Maltese and Maurice Noble and just how important they were to the creation of the cartoons he directed. But still people see only the director`s name. Why is that? Maybe it has something to do with the cult of the director that came out of the studio system meltdown in the 70s.

Whatever the reason, from time to time I just like to remind you all:

Writer: Michael Maltese
Director: Chuck Jones
Production Designer: Maurice Noble


Larry Loc (ASIFA Blog Guy)  ¶ 9:41 AM