In 2012, the grand opening of ‘The Chuck Jones Experience’ was held at the ‘Circus Circus Las Vegas’
In 1996, ‘From Hare to Eternity’ was released, which was Jones' final Looney Tunes cartoon
In 1992, he directed the animated sequences, ‘Stay Tuned’ and ‘Mrs
The 1980s and 1990s saw Jones donning different hats
He then married Marian Dern after Dorothy died in 1978
In 1973, Jones produced an animated version of the George Selden book, ‘The Cricket in Times Square’
After MGM shut down the animation division in 1970, he established his studio, Chuck Jones Productions
In 1966, he collaborated with Theodor Geisel, famously known as Dr
In 1963, the studio was asked to produce ‘Tom and Jerry’ cartoons and the following year, the studio was acquired by MGM
In 1950, Jones and his close associate Michael Maltese began to recreate Daffy Duck’s character, in a short called ‘Rabbit Fire’
In 1944, he directed shorts like ‘The Weakly Reporter’, ‘Hell- Bent for Election’ and lesser known, ‘Angel Puss’
In 1942, Jones directed ‘The Dover Boys’, breaking the old norms of animation and moving away from the traditional styles of Disney cartoons
In the 1940s and 1950s, he created some of his most popular works such as ‘Marvin the Martian’, ‘Pepe LePew’, ‘the Road Runner’ and ‘Wile E
In 1938, Jones directed his first cartoon ‘The Night Watchman’, followed by many slow and humourless works
He was promoted to the position of animator in 1935 and started working with director, Tex Avery
In 1933, he started working for ‘Leon Schlesinger Productions’ as an assistant animator
After five years of immense planning, projecting, fund raising and execution, the grand opening of Disneyland Theme Park took place on July 17, 1955
The first to release was ‘Cinderella’ in 1950, which was followed by ‘Alice in Wonderland’, ‘Peter Pan’, ‘Treasure Island’, ‘Lady in the Tramp’, ‘Sleeping Beauty’ and ‘101 Dalmatians’
Simultaneously, the short staff continued to work on the characters of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, and Pluto cartoon seriesIn 1939, he opened the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank
The film was a blockbuster at the box office and went on to become the most successful film of 1938
In 1935, he created history by launching ‘Flowers and Trees’, then one of the most popular cartoon shorts, in color
After a successful training schedule, his high-profile leap of a feature film titled, ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’, went into production in 1934
In 1933, he created his most memorable cartoon short, ‘The Three Little Pigs’
In 1929, he released a series of musical shorts, titled ‘Silly Symphonies’, which featured Mickey’s friends, Donald Duck, Goofy, Pluto and Mickey’s girlfriend Minnie Mouse
The dream-run for Disney ended in 1928 when he realized that Universal Pictures had bought the trademark for Oswald and that most of his creative designers, except Iwerk, had forsaken him for the Universal Pictures
In 1925, he recruited ink-and-paint artist Lillian Bound, little knowing then that the two would become lifelong partners
However, financial debt caused the closure of the studio in 1923
In 1920, he found employment with Kansas City Film Ad Company
Moving back to Kansas City in 1919, started working at the Pesmen-Rubin Art Studio, as ad-writer
Moving to Chicago in 1917, he enrolled himself at the McKinley High School
The family moved to Kansas City in 1911 where he received his early education
Most of the cartoon characters that we reckon today, Micky Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, and so on are the brain-child of this international icon, who became a major figure in the American animation industry in 20th century
