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Road Runner
Chuck
Jones directed the first animated short film from a story by Michael Maltese.
Jones considered a jackrabbit-first, but chose the Road Runner because a running
bird seemed funnier.
In their first film, Wile E. Coyote used eleven different methods to try to
catch the bird--with absolutely no success. (Fast And Furry-ous was the first
cartoon done in 1949.)The Road Runner never hurts or touches the coyote, and he
always stays on-the road.There is no dialog or conventional narrative in a Road
Runner cartoon.Between 1949 and 1980, the Road Runner starred in a total of 42
theatrical short films and became one of the most verbally imitated favorites of
all of the Looney Tunes characters (how tricky is "beep-beep"?).
Wile E. Coyote
He was first brought to the screen by Chuck Jones.The second Road Runner cartoon didn't appear until 1952, when the fleet-footed bird and ever-hungry coyote teamed up in "Beep, Beep.After that, it was nonstop, with the production and release of more than 40 Road Runner animated films, co-starring Wile E. Coyote up to 1980 when the last, "Soup or Sonic", arrived onscreen.Wile E. is the great American anti-hero.Wile E. actually pursued Bugs Bunny in the 1952 cartoon -- "Operation Rabbit", in which he also spoke!Wile E. introduced ACME products into the American pop cultured lexicon.Wile E. made appearances with a slightly different look as Ralph Wolf in a series of cartoons with Sam the Sheepdog.
Pictures
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Sounds
Click on the buttons to hear the sounds
| "...BeepBeep... " | |
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Road Runner puts it into high gear |
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| " ...ouch..." | |
| "...Yowwwww..." | |
| "Brilliance. That's all I can say, sheer, unadulterated brilliance" | |
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"...Gad, I 'm such a genious..." |
Graphics
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