From A to Z-Z-Z-Z is a 1953 animated cartoon short by Chuck Jones in the Looney Tunes series. Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. An animated cartoon is a short hand-drawn (or made with computers to look similar to something hand-drawn Film for the cinema, Television or computer Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones ( September 21, 1912 &ndash February 22, 2002) was an American Animator, Looney Tunes is a Warner Bros Animated cartoon series which ran in many movie theatres from 1930 to 1969 It was released by Warner Bros. in 1954. Warner Bros Entertainment Inc (or Warner Bros, Warner Bros Pictures) is one of the world's largest producers of Film and Year 1954 ( MCMLIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar)
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Summary
The cartoon begins with an exterior shot of a school classroom. Through the windows, children are visible at their desks. They are learning arithmetic by rote. The main character -- Ralph Phillips -- is bored with this lesson; on seeing a bird outside, he imagines that he is free to use his arms and legs to propel himself through the air.
Miss Wallace interrupts this daydream and assigns Ralph to solve a column of numbers on the blackboard. He is intimidated so much that the numbers come to life. He fights back by using letters as weapons.
Wallace brings Ralph back to reality and sends him out to mail a letter. He responds by becoming a Pony Express courier who braves a horde of Indians across his desert journey. The Pony Express was a fast Mail service crossing the North American continent from St For indigenous peoples in the United States other than Hawaii and Alaska see also Native Americans in the United States.
Back in the classroom, he finds the geography lesson tedious until the sight of a fish in an aquarium triggers his next daydream -- as a deep-sea diver who kills a shark and rescues an immobilized submarine.
Wallace loses her patience and sends Ralph to the corner, but this doesn't stop him from turning the classroom into a boxing ring. On being sent home, Ralph imagines himself as Douglas MacArthur and repeats the general's most famous line, "I shall return. General MacArthur redirects here for other meanings see General MacArthur (disambiguation. "
Notes
This cartoon received an Academy Award for Animated Short Film nomination in 1953 even though it was not released until October 16, 1954. The Academy Award for Animated Short Film is an award which has been given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as part of the Academy Awards every year Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. [1]
The top-heavy rock pillars in Ralph's desert would provide the basis for Road Runner background designs, especially from 1957 until the final theatrical Roadrunner cartoon in 1964. Year 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar)
Censorship
- Some Cartoon Network airings cut parts of the daydream sequence where Ralph imagines himself fighting Indians while sending a letter although "The Chuck Jones Show" had it uncut.
Credits
- Director: Chuck Jones
- Story: Michael Maltese
- Animation: Ken Harris, Ben Washam, Lloyd Vaughan
- Layout: Maurice Noble
- Background: Phil DeGuard
- Music: Carl Stalling
- Voice Characterizations: Richard Beals, Bea Benaderet, Mel Blanc