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Now Hear This (film)

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Now Hear This
Directed byChuck Jones
Maurice Noble
Story byJohn Dunn
Chuck Jones
Produced byDavid H. DePatie
StarringMel Blanc
Music byBill Lava
Treg Brown
Animation byBen Washam
Bob Bransford
Layouts byMaurice Noble
Backgrounds byPhilip DeGuard
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
April 27, 1963
Running time
6:35
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Now Hear This is a 1963[1] Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Chuck Jones and Maurice Noble, and written by Jones and John Dunn.[2] The short was released on April 27, 1963.[3] It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film the following year.[4]

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Transcription

Plot

Satan, the Head Devil, loses his left horn, which is discovered by an elderly man in the United Kingdom and repurposed as a hearing trumpet. The man begins experiencing a series of surreal hallucinations, including bugs sounding like locomotives, butterflies creating strange patterns, and a mischievous man causing chaos. As the hallucinations become increasingly bizarre and frightening, they culminate in a gigantic explosion. Exhausted by the ordeal, the man abandons the horn for his original ear trumpet. After he leaves, Satan appears and retrieves his missing horn, restoring it to its place with the moral: "The other fellow's trumpet always looks greener."

Crew

Production notes

The title comes from a phrase used aboard American naval ships as an instruction to cease activity and listen to the announcement that will follow.

Chuck Jones later admitted confusion about the film's direction, saying "We kind of went out into — I don't know if it was left field; it was somewhere else I didn't understand. Jack Warner wasn't the only one who didn't understand that picture. I called it 'Chuck's Revenge', because it was one of the last pictures I made, and I was trying to find some way of infuriating him."[5]

This cartoon marked the debut of the modern abstract opening and closing sequences, a style later adopted for mid-1960s Warner Bros. shorts, predominantly produced by DePatie–Freleng Enterprises (DFE) and Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Animation. It is also notable for listing the director's name first, a rarity in the Looney Tunes series.

At the cartoon's close, a modern sequence unfolds: the Westminster Quarters introduce the "WB" lettering, while Big Ben chimes and a bicycle horn squeaks as the words "A Warner Bros. CartOOn" appear. The OO's in "Cartoon" separate to resemble eyes. This sequence, likely emphasizing the British setting, recurs in two other cartoons (Bartholomew Versus the Wheel and Señorella and the Glass Huarache). An updated version was used for DFE-produced cartoons, featuring Bill Lava's "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" and a black background. This concept was Chuck Jones's idea, but he was unable to direct further cartoons with this opening due to his dismissal after involvement in Gay Purr-ee with United Productions of America (UPA). This cartoon deviates from typical Warner Bros. style, resembling more the limited animation techniques of UPA cartoons. It introduces the modern abstract opening and closing sequences seen in mid-1960s Warner Bros. shorts.

Home media

Now Hear This is available on Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection, Disc 3, on Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6, Disc 4 and on Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Award-Nominated Animation: Golden Gems.

References

  1. ^ "Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1962 -" cartoonresearch.com
  2. ^ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 343. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
  3. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 100–102. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  4. ^ 1963|Oscars.org
  5. ^ Furniss, Maureen, ed. (2005). Chuck Jones: Conversations. University Press of Mississippi. p. 88. ISBN 978-1578067299.

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