Three Cartoons: Duck Amuck (1953), One Froggy Evening (1955), What's Opera, Doc? (1957)
Remember when cartoons were made to entertain the whole family instead of selling stuff to kids? It was a time before the popularization of TVs in the 60s, when short animated movies were screened on theaters, mostly for free, being fun and entertaining as well as culturally rich and, every so often, even thought-provoking. As such, it is no wonder that, in 1994, when animation historian Jerry Beck published The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals , 90% of the picks for greatest cartoons of all time had been released prior to 1960. It is also not at all surprising that, out of those 50, nearly 20% were resulting of the amalgamation of the geniuses of Chuck Jones and Michael Maltese , with three of such cartoons, What's Opera, Doc? (1st place), Duck Amuck (2nd place) and One Froggy Evening (5th place) also being selected for preservation by the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress for being...