. . . Director Jones' work at Warner Brothers and for Leo the groaning Lion, such as a Loony Tunes snippet from the masterful ONE F-R-O-G-G-Y EVENING featuring the stage-shy Michigan J. Frog, which the final Tom & Jerry director crafted in 1955. There also are segments from WHAT'S OPERA, DOC?--plus a bit of THE RABBIT OF SEVILLE, as well as examples of Jones' more memorable work for Leo, including THE DOT AND THE LINE, which won him the Oscar for the Best Animated Short of 1965 and the longer television initial animated version of HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS. TOM AND JERRY . . . AND CHUCK concludes with the narrator admitting that Mr. Jones' 34 T & J episodes, arguably the best three dozen of the bunch, represent only a tiny footnote among the great body of this artist's life work.
