1. The studio that produced the two short animated films featured today was Warner Brothers (WB).
2. Chuck Jones was the producer for both films.
3. The first film, The Case of the Missing Hare was made in 1942 and the second film, The Aristo-cat was made in 1943.
4. The famous studio, or studio's, that Chuck Jones tried to immitate in his early years was from the Walter Lantz studio and Ub Iwerks Studio.
5. In Ub Iwerks studio he Jones worked on washing cels and then moved on to be an assistant animator at the Walter Lantz studio.
6. Jones' work was lavishly and very "over the top" animated. In the 1950's, Jones teamed up with Micheal Maltese and began working on, Rabbit Fire, a short that totally changed Daffy Duck's personality. They decided to make him completly different. Instead of the wacky, comic relief character he was previously, they transformed Daffy into a vain, ego-mainiac, prima donna wanting to steal the spotlight from Bugs Bunny. Jones used humour in a new and fantastic way and "learned how to be funny," from the american film, The Dover Boys.
7. "Feed the Kitty," made in 1952 was the short that was paid homage to in Monsters Inc.
8. And yes, Feed the Kitty is one of Franks favorite cartoons.
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