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But amongst this, the studio would make a discovery that would not only put them on the map, but change animation forever.Īmongst Chuck Jones' early cartoons was " Elmer's Candid Camera", a take on a manic rabbit character that was previously used in two of Ben Hardaway's cartoons note "Porky's Hare Hunt" (1938) and "Hare-Um Scare-Um" (1939) and one of Jones' earlier shorts note "Prest-o Change-o", 1939). His career was also on the line because of this-Leon Schlesinger, who was not pleased with Jones' cutesy cartoons, nor the fact that they required considerable more effort and money than the typical short cartoon, was constantly threatening to demote Jones back to animator if he didn't follow the approach of Avery and Clampett, and in one case came very close to firing him for making Tom Thumb in Trouble, only relenting because the other directors defended Chuck as having what it took to be a good director, but claiming that he just needed time to find his own point of view. Chuck Jones, meanwhile, was still struggling to find his voice at the studio while using Disney films as his reference point as opposed to the anti-Disney approach of his colleagues, making cartoons such as Sniffles the Mouse, which were impressively crafted and lavish, but cloying and sluggishly paced misfires. Bob Clampett was making surprisingly innovative and very playful cartoons in the B&W unit, and even his unit was showing considerable improvements in upgrading their animation, despite still being handicapped by low budgets and restricted to making Porky Pig and Daffy Duck cartoons. Friz Freleng, fresh back from an unhappy tenure on MGM's "The Captain and the Kids" cartoons, was back to making standard gag cartoons, with previous director Ben Hardaway demoted back to animator, which prompted the latter to pack up and leave for work at the Walter Lantz cartoon studio. Tex Avery was still creating street smart, anti-Disney cartoons, such as his recurring travelogue parodies and fairy tale burlesques.
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Picking things up from the late 1930s, the artwork in the studio's cartoons was steadily and strongly improving, as was the content of the films. The 1940s was the pivotal decade for the entire Looney Tunes franchise, where the series' most important films and characters would come about.