"Now Hear This" 1962 Chuck Jones Cartoon

[ofeliazick]

thanks for this cartoon video

[bauhaus3313]

Does anyone remember the cartoon, I think it was Chuck Jones (50's or 60's), where it told the story of a guy's life, but the narrator told his whole story using common expressions like "he painted the town red" and "everything but the kitchen sink" and then it would animate the guy literally doing those things? I know it might sound like I'm going insane, but it was really funny, I used to see when I watched Tom and Jerry. It was one off random story. Anyone remember the name of it?

[nicksavage0]

I remember this!

[TheMobiusTrap]

The full cartoon is now on Youtube! Click here ---> "This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc."

Thanks WB. -_-'

[andythefork]

@TheMobiusTrap

Yeah it sucks. I updated the link to another version I found, but I'm sure it will eventually go down too.

[1stbrasscaptain]

I loved this cartoon...I'm searching for it as well...

[kuusama]

I remember this!

[mortvia]

yup I saw it once and never again. Must find full version now :D

[JoshRA]

this cartoon was amazing,  I stood at attention when looney tunes played it.

[Yaenipponcover]

I just saw my brother watching this like 30 min ago...I didn't kwew it was from Chuck Jones.

[kami63116]

Oh I love this!

[narutofightindreamer]

No doubt about it Chuck Jones was the master of American Cartoons.... Please watch "Norman Juster's " "Phantom Tollboth". Chuck Jones adapted it wonderfully.

[papina54]

so hard to find...thank you!!!

[moonperson]

i will never forget that cartoon

[genestarwindjf80]

that was one of my fav horts. chuck jones is a genius, and i like to be a animator like him someday. i draw looney tunes.

[yuchoobnipaperpins]

I know I'm going to be adding to already millions of shrieks: "I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS FOREVER!!!"

But, finally. Something that says I wasn't dreaming!!!

[andythefork]

Haha, that was my feeling as well. "I knew I wasn't crazy!"

[SailorRainWolf]

OH MAN! I have been searching for that cartoon FOREVER! I LOOOOOOOOOOOOVVVEEEEE that cartoon! It always freaked me out as a little girl.... it's soo trippy!

[invaderbees]

User iseven016 Has the whole cartoon uploaded. It's the first video under "related videos" on this page for me.

[andythefork]

Thank you invaderbees!

[invaderbees]

No problem! Glad to help.

[texluh]

On a slightly different note, does anyone know about another one-off cartoon made years ago where there is a narrative, and every single metaphor is accompanied by a pun or a humourous visual? e.g. "I was down in the mouth..." .... ? Would love to find that too.

[Julian9ehp]

Tex Avery for MGM, "Symphony in Slang," 1951

[texluh]

thanks very much!

[texluh]

Is anyone having any luck?

Benn Burtt, who designed the very animalistic spaceships and very metallic animal sounds in Star Waes, based his style on Treg Brown. And of course Treg is most probably most famous for Roadrunner, a study in creating humour and interest from sound and motion.

Something someone said in these comments about making me what I am today strikes a chord.

[ilovetortillas]

WOW! i havent seen that in a looong time! that cartoon is great

[handfetisch]

Glad to know I'm not the only person who's been madly searching for this. I even went so far as to call up the Chuck Jones foundation to ask them if they have it on file!

[XManTMG]

Ok, I commented before I watched the clip and now realize that everything I just said, is in the clip...(nods head in dissapointment).

[XManTMG]

I loved that cartoon. It would stick out when I was young because the title sequence was completely different from all the other looney tunes shows I would watch. I remember how he originally has this crummy hearing aid and all the noise is futz-out. He finds Satan's horn and tosses his aside, and hears crazy stuff like a train getting closer. It's been a LONG Long time since I've seen it, but that abstract humor sticks. Maybe in some small way, it made me what I am today.

[wiley207]

The abstract Looney Tunes intro was first used on this short, but many Looney Tunes fans will remember it from the cheap Speedy vs. Daffy cartoons of the mid-1960s.

[sauceda6223]

OMG!!! I wanna watch the whole thing