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"High Note" Rare Chuck Jones Cartoon

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A rare Warner Bros cartoon, High Note (1960) doesn't include any star characters- the “stars" are a bunch of musical notes who are trying to form the music to the “Blue Danube", but one musical note is causing problems.

The sheet music for Johann Strauss' “The Blue Danube" is constructed by moving musical symbols. A baton-toting conductor note tries to direct his fellow notes in performing this musical piece, but finds that one of the notes has become drunk after being inside the sheet music for “Little Brown Jug". The drunken note staggers goofily on the staves for the music of “The Blue Danube" and is chased by the conductor.

Directed by Chuck Jones, who can be plausibly described as the most influential individual in the history of animated film. There are other possible candidates for this title, particularly Walt Disney, whose role in developing full animation as integrated industrial marketing process was certainly decisive for the history of commercial cartoons, providing a nearly universal model.

As a creator of globally recognised, intimately recalled, yet highly specific cartoon characters, however, Jones probably has no peer. As directed by Jones, I suspect Daffy and Bugs could punch out Mickey and Donald in any brawl over lasting popular loveability.

Jones was a true child of Hollywood. Although born elsewhere, he was brought up on the Sunset strip, where he was able to absorb fundamental lessons in comic timing from the nearby Chaplin studios, and it was there too, within the protecting yet notoriously porous confines of 'termite terrace', that most of his beloved characters would come to life.

As you develop any character, you are, of course, looking into a mirror, a reflection of yourself, your ambitions and hopes, your realizations and fears. [....] You see, that's the whole wonder of animation directing. If you're not something you want to be, or are something you don't want to be, you can through drawing, through action, create a character who will take care of the matter.
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