Maurice Noble

Рождение : 1910-05-01, Duluth, Minnesota, USA

Смерть : 2001-05-18

История

American animation production designer, background artist and layout designer whose contributions to the industry spanned more than 60 years. He was a long-time associate of animation director Chuck Jones, most notably at Warner Bros. in the 1950s. His work contributed to such cartoon classics as Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century, What's Opera, Doc?, and the Road Runner series.

Фильмы

Луни Тюнз. Платиновая коллекция. Том 3
Director
50 Looney Tunes shorts with special features.
Луни Тюнз. Платиновая коллекция. Том 1
Director
A Blu-ray Disc and DVD box set containing 50 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons and numerous supplements. All but seven cartoons included on this volume - Lovelorn Leghorn, The Hasty Hare, Hare-Way to the Stars, Bill of Hare, A Witch's Tangled Hare, Feline Frame-Up, and From A to Z-Z-Z-Z - have been previously released, either as a part of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection or a Looney Tunes Super Stars DVD.
Daffy Duck Frustrated Fowl
Director
Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl was released in conjunction with Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire None of these shorts have been released on disc before, and Chuck Jones's "Daffy Dilly" (1948) is a welcome addition to any cartoon library. Daffy sets out to win the money a gloomy millionaire is offering to anyone who can make him laugh--and succeeds in spite of himself. But many of these cartoons are, simply, duds. "This Is a Life?" (1955), "People Are Bunny" (1959), and "Person to Bunny" (1960) spoof largely forgotten TV shows. How many viewers under 65 will recognize caricatures of Art Linkletter and Edward R. Murrow? The films pitting Daffy against Bugs play like weak remakes of Jones's "Rabbit Fire" trilogy or Friz Freleng's "Show Biz Bugs"--"Person to Bunny" even repeats some of Daffy's tap dance to "Jeepers Creepers" in "Show Biz." The very late "Suppressed Duck" (1965) is painfully unfunny. Once again, some of the films have been inexplicably cropped to simulate a widescreen format.
Looney Tunes: Spotlight Collection Vol. 5
Director
The Looney Tunes Guide to Fairy Tales: In a storybook setting, Looney Tunes characters share with kids the necessary ingredients for a proper fairy tale
The Pumpkin of Nyefar
Story
The Pumpkin of Nyefar is a short directed by Tod Polson and Mark Oftedal. The story was co-written by Maurice Noble, who began his animation career at Disney in the 1930s, and eventually designed many of Chuck Jones’s classic Warner Bros. cartoons including Duck Dodgers in the 24th Century and What’s Opera, Doc?. The film is narrated by June Foray (the voice of Rocky in Rocky and Bullwinkle).
Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens – A Life in Animation
This biography, shown on American television as part of the PBS "Great Performances" series, examines the life works of one of Hollywood's most celebrated animators, Chuck (Charles M.) Jones. He is best known for Warner Brothers cartoons featuring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig, Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote, and Pepe LePew. Included are plenty of behind-the-scenes descriptions of how an animated film is made, and (best of all) many clips from Chuck's cartoons.
Marvin the Martian & K9: 50 Years on Earth
Director
Collection of classic cartoons including "Haredevil Hare", "Mad as a Mars Hare", "Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24 1/2th Century", "Spacedout Bunny", "Lumber Jack Rabbit", and "Hyde and Go Tweet".
Marvin The Martian: Space Tunes
Co-Director
Collection of classic cartoons including "Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century," "Hareway to the Stars," "The Hasty Hare," "Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24 1/2 Century," "Mad as a Mars Hare," "Spaced Out Bunny," and "Haredevil Hare."
Father Of The Bird
Color Designer
Sylvester meets up with an adorable new character named Cornbread.
The Magical World of Chuck Jones
Self
Documentary on animator Chuck Jones.
Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes
Co-Director
Bugs has to defend the Earth's right to exist in an intergalactic court.
Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special
Layout
A 1980 Looney Tunes Thanksgiving special, starring Daffy Duck. Cartoons featured "The Scarlet Pumpernickel" "Robin Hood Daffy" "Drip-Along Daffy" "His Bitter Half"
Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special
Production Design
A 1980 Looney Tunes Thanksgiving special, starring Daffy Duck. Cartoons featured "The Scarlet Pumpernickel" "Robin Hood Daffy" "Drip-Along Daffy" "His Bitter Half"
Кролик Багз или Дорожный Бегун
Production Design
Мультфильм представляет собой компиляцию из 11 короткометражных мультфильмов серии Looney Tunes. Между мультфильмами показан главный герой — Багз Банни, который рассказывает зрителю о своей жизни и об истории появления погони в кинематографе.
Bugs Bunny in Space
Director
Bugs Bunny in Space is a parody of "Star Wars" that features a compilation of science-fiction themed clips from Warner Brothers cartoons starring Bugs Bunny and other characters.
The Cat in the Hat
Production Design
In a marvelously animated version of one of the most beloved of all Dr. Seuss tales, two youngsters find themselves at home with nothing to do on a rainy afternoon. But when the magical, mischievous Cat in the Hat arrives on the scene, they're all cat-apulted into a day of rousing, romping, outlandish antics they - and you - will never forget!
The Phantom Tollbooth
Production Design
The Phantom Tollbooth, based upon the children's adventure novel by Norton Juster, tells the story of a bored young boy named Milo. Unexpectedly receiving a magic tollbooth and, having nothing better to do, Milo drives through it and enters a kingdom in turmoil following the loss of its princesses, Rhyme and Reason.
Horton Hears a Who!
Production Design
In this story, Horton discovers there is a microscopic community of intelligent beings called the Who's living on a plant that only he can hear. Recognising the dangers they face, he resolves to keep them safe. However, the other animals around him think Horton has gone crazy thinking that there are such beings.
The Bear That Wasn't
Co-Director
A bear settles down for his long winter nap, and while he sleeps the progress of man continues. He wakes up to find himself in the middle of an industrial complex where nobody believes he's a bear.
Cannery Rodent
Co-Director
Tom chases Jerry into a fish cannery; they get sealed into cans. Tom breaks out, but falls off a pier as the cans roll under him. A shark chases him out of the water; Tom drops an anchor on the shark. Meanwhile, Jerry has been hopping in his can; Tom opens it, and puts his finger in, which Jerry bites. Jerry tricks Tom into falling off the end of another pier, and right into the shark's path again. The shark manages to get Tom into a very precarious position, barely holding the jaws apart. Jerry takes pity, and dumps a shaker full of pepper into the shark, which ends up on the processing line and stuffed into a huge can. Tom is unrepentant, so Jerry tricks him with a fake shark fin.
Cat and Dupli-cat
Co-Director
Tom is on the canals of Venice, singing opera. He ends up on a cruise ship, where another cat tricks him out of Jerry (who Tom has just caught), then mirrors his every move. Eventually the cats start chasing each other.
Как Гринч украл Рождество!
Production Design
Гринч живет на вершине холма над городком Ктоград со своим псом Максом. Каждый год во время Рождества ненависть Гринча к счастливым жителям Ктограда росла все больше и больше. Они дарили друг другу подарки, веселились на праздничных обедах и пели песни в городском парке, даже не подозревая о копящейся обиде Гринча. Однажды Гринч решил сорвать Рождество. Переодевшись в Санта Клауса, наскоро снарядившись и заставив свою собаку тащить его на санях, он пробрался в дома жителей городка и украл их подарки, еду и украшения…
Jerry, Jerry, Quite Contrary
Co-Director
Jerry keeps sleepwalking and doing violence to Tom. He realizes this and tries to keep awake, but fails. He catches himself a couple more times just as he's about to do serious damage, but ultimately sends an anvil down a chimney, while Tom is tied to it and dragged through half the house.
Duel Personality
Co-Director
Each having submitted his challenge card to the other, Tom and Jerry meet in a field to duel, using as weapons swords, pistols, bows and arrows, cannons and slingshots.
Точка и линия
Co-Director
Десятиминутная история любви с необычными персонажами. Жила-была прямая линия. И однажды случилось так, что она влюбилась в точку. Но точка не отвечала взаимностью воздыхателю. Линия казалась ей слишком простой, и куда приятней точке было общаться с витиеватой загогулиной, более интересной и привлекательной. Но прямая линия не была намерена сдаваться: она попыталась сформировать различные фигуры, начала гнуться в углы. Позже она продемонстрировала свои способности возлюбленной точке, и точка поняла главное — истинная красота происходит из порядка, а загогулина — не ее судьба. Точка и линия гораздо больше подходят друг другу.
Точка и линия
Production Design
Десятиминутная история любви с необычными персонажами. Жила-была прямая линия. И однажды случилось так, что она влюбилась в точку. Но точка не отвечала взаимностью воздыхателю. Линия казалась ей слишком простой, и куда приятней точке было общаться с витиеватой загогулиной, более интересной и привлекательной. Но прямая линия не была намерена сдаваться: она попыталась сформировать различные фигуры, начала гнуться в углы. Позже она продемонстрировала свои способности возлюбленной точке, и точка поняла главное — истинная красота происходит из порядка, а загогулина — не ее судьба. Точка и линия гораздо больше подходят друг другу.
The Cat's Me-Ouch
Co-Director
Jerry orders a vicious dog from a catalog, but when it arrives, it's even smaller than Jerry. However, despite its size, it launches an impressive attack on Tom
The Brothers Carry-Mouse-Off
Co-Director
Tom tries setting out things to lure Jerry into a trap, but Jerry, riding on Tom, picks them up as Tom puts them down. Tom chases Jerry upstairs, where he runs out a door to the outside. Tom puts on a lady mouse costume and plays the ukulele and is suddenly surrounded by dozens of amorous mice then hungry cats.
The Year of the Mouse
Co-Director
Jerry, with the help of a mouse friend, is lowered on a fishing line, abuses the sleeping Tom in various ways, and is yanked away before Tom sees him. First, he hits Tom with a fireplace shovel and plants it in Tom's hand; next, he puts a gun in Tom's hand and pulls the trigger; he puts a noose around Tom's neck; positions a ketchup-covered knife (complete with ketchup "wound"); and finally puts Tom into an archery bow. Tom finally gets his revenge,
Of Feline Bondage
Co-Director
Tom chases Jerry around a pool hall. Jerry's fairy godmouse arrives, and Jerry tells the story; she gives him an invisibility potion. Jerry uses this to do some creative barbering on Tom, but when the potion wears off, Tom gets his revenge, and they both have a good laugh.
I'm Just Wild About Jerry
Co-Director
Tom chases Jerry through city streets, gets run over by a streetcar (twice), and follows Jerry into a department store. In the toy department, they have some fun with radio-controlled cars and a collection of mouse dolls. They move on to sporting goods, where Jerry manages to combine table tennis with croquet.
Haunted Mouse
Co-Director
Jerry's magician friend (cousin?) drops by, levitating Tom. Later, when Jerry is preparing dinner, Tom accidentally grabs the magician, who hypnotizes him. While Tom is under, the magician goes into Tom's stomach and frees/revives all the birds, mice, and even a fish. And he's just getting warmed up.
Bad Day at Cat Rock
Co-Director
Tom and Jerry are on a building construction site. Things explode, Tom loses his fur for a while, Jerry hides in a glove, Tom falls from a great height, and Tom has great trouble with a rock-and-girder see-saw.
Tom-ic Energy
Co-Director
Essentially one long chase scene, in an urban setting; at the end, a dog joins in, to Jerry's annoyance.
Ah, Sweet Mouse-Story Of Life
Co-Director
Tom chases Jerry around a high-rise apartment, and then around the ledge surrounding the building. They torment each other with a compressed air horn. Jerry goes down a drainpipe and Tom follows, stretching himself the length of the pipe (and getting unstuck with help from the air horn).
The Unshrinkable Jerry Mouse
Co-Director
Tom enjoys the role of top cat until an adorable red-and-white-haired kitten is brought into the house of a young blonde woman.
War and Pieces
Co-Director
After another failed series of attempts to catch the ever-elusive Road Runner with a grenade, a bow, a rope, invisible paint, and a gun disguised as a peep show, Wile E. Coyote uses a rocket to chase after the bird. The rocket goes off course, crashes through the earth and sends Wile E. to China where a Chinese Road Runner greets him.
Ледяная утка
Co-Director
When Daffy hears that the Klondike trading post is paying good money for furs, Bugs' pelt becomes endangered.
Snowbody Loves Me
Co-Director
Waif mouse Jerry, encrusted with snow, peers through a warmly lit window at Tom asleep by the fire in a room full of cheese.
Much Ado About Mousing
Co-Director
When a bulldog tells Jerry to "just whistle" any time that he needs him, Tom's in for big trouble until he puts earmuffs on the mutt.
Is There a Doctor in the Mouse?
Co-Director
Jerry mixes and drinks a high-acceleration potion which renders him so fast that he eats all of Tom's food before the bewildered cat can even see him.
The Cat Above and the Mouse Below
Co-Director
Tom, famous baritone Signor Thomasino Catti-Cazzaza, enthralls a concert audience with his rendition of "Largo al factotum", from Rossini's "Il Barbiere di Siviglia", while Jerry strives for sleep under the stage.
To Beep or Not to Beep
Co-Director
Wile E. Coyote hopes to stop and catch the Road Runner using a huge, boulder-throwing catapult. But no matter where Wile E. positions himself, the catapult drops the boulder on him.
Трансильвания 6-5000
Co-Director
Багз останавливается переночевать в замке графа Кровавого в Трансильвании.
Сумасшедший как марсианский заяц
Co-Director
Marvin the Martian is monitoring through his telescope a rocket launch on Earth. The rocket heads straight for him and lands on Mars. The only occupant is Bugs Bunny, lured into Cape Canaveral by a carrot and sent to Mars as an expendable "astro-rabbit". Bugs is to claim Mars in the name of the Earth, but Marvin won't allow an Earth creature to contaminate his atmosphere. He trains a time-projector gun on Bugs and reverts the bunny to a Neanderthal Rabbit, who crushes Marvin with one hand.
Pent-House Mouse
Co-Director
Tom is living the life of luxury, high atop a fancy apartment building. Jerry is starving way down below when he spots a lunchbox on a girder at a construction site. Jerry goes in, the girder goes up, and the lunchbox falls off, landing on Tom, and the chase is on.
Скорей, ты почти меня догнал!
Co-Director
When Bugs takes Wile E. Coyote's place in a cartoon, the Bugs/Coyote roles and rules become confused.
Важное сообщение
Co-Director
Абстрактный анимационный фильм, герой которого — слабослышащий пожилой мужчина из Великобритании — находит красный рог и начинает использовать его в качестве рупора. Он не подозревает, что нашел рог самого Сатаны. Дьявол потерял его накануне. Используя новую слуховую трубу, мужчина начинает испытывать галлюцинации. Один за другим перед ним всплывают визуальные и зрительные образы, которые заканчиваются яркой кульминацией. Очевидно, таким образом Дьявол пытается завладеть тем, что принадлежит ему.
I Was a Teenage Thumb
Co-Director
George Ebenezer Thumb and his wife, Prunhilda, are a medieval, rural, English couple who desperately want a child...
Martian Through Georgia
Co-Director
Way out in space, on another world whose population is contented, one of its people decides that travel broadens the mind and relieves boredom. So, he flies to Earth in hope of helping the alien Earthlings improve their lot, only to cause panic and be declared a monster just because he looks different. So, he decides to return home, where, at least, he can find love.
Louvre Come Back to Me!
Co-Director
Pepe Le Pew, the eternally amorous skunk, is in Paris, where the smell of his odor sends a female cat upward to hit a freshly painted flagpole, which puts a white stripe on her back and causes Pepe to think she is a girl skunk. He lustfully pursues her into the Louvre art gallery, where his foul scent causes the images in several paintings to change poses to show their disgust. The female cat's feline lover has also come into the Louvre and challenges Pepe to a duel for possession of her, but is thwarted by Pepe's unbearable stench.
Zoom at the Top
Co-Director
Wile E. Coyote tries and fails to catch the Road Runner using a bear trap with a bird seed bait, a jet rocket, an ice-making machine, and a boomerang.
A Sheep in the Deep
Co-Director
Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog punch into work, with Sam guarding a flock of sheep against Ralph's attempts to snatch some mutton for dinner. Ralph uses a lull-a-bye record to put Sam to sleep and steals one of the sheep, but the lamb unzips itself to reveal someone very unexpected beneath!
About Time
Layout
An entry in the Bell Science animated film series, on the nature of time.
Безрассудство Нелли
Co-Director
В густых африканских джунглях, где пугающие звуки раздаются из-под каждого куста, охотник подстерегает свою жертву. Но он никак не мог предсказать того, что увидел и услышал — жираф (по имени Нелли) выступает перед другими животными. Соло очаровательной певицы разносится по всей округе. Пораженный охотник сразу же предлагает жирафе подписать контракт, и вот уже Нелли едет покорять каменные джунгли. Со временем она становится знаменитой, но жирафе начинает докучать одиночество. Однажды она знакомится с симпатичным жирафом из зоопарка и несмотря на то, что знает, что у него есть законная «супруга», и агент Нелли против таких романов, начинает встречаться с ним. Любовь и глупость Нелли не позволяют ей сделать карьеру певицы.
Не зевай!
Co-Director
Короткометражный мультфильм по рассказу Джона Данна, повествующий о приключениях неразлучной парочки Койота и кукушки Скорохода, героев мультсериалов Looney Tunes и Merrie Melodies. Как и в остальных эпизодах, Койот пытается поймать неуловимую птицу, но она раз за разом ускользает от него. Погоня проходит на земле и в небе. Койот выделывает различные кульбиты — становится легким атлетом, канатоходцем и предстает во множестве других ролей. Но как бы ловок он не был, кукушка оказывается быстрее и проворнее.
Compressed Hare
Co-Director
Bugs battles Wile E. Coyote. A ten trillion volt electric magnet draws everything imaginable.
Ужасный снежный кролик
Co-Director
Bugs and Daffy get lost on the way to Palm Springs and end up in the Himalayas, where they meet an Abominable Snowman who has always wanted a rabbit for a pet.
Who Scent You?
Layout Supervisor
A female cat wants to board a French cruise ship. Prior to the ship's departure, she crawls under a freshly-painted gate and gets a white streak atop her back and tail. Enter enamored Pepé Le Pew.
Палочка Банни
Layout
Bugs conducts the Warner Brothers Symphony in Franz von Suppé's "Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna" while reacting to a bothersome fly.
Cat Feud
Layout
Bulldog Marc Anthony is a guard at a construction site. He finds a kitten, Pussyfoot, to whom he affectionately gives a wiener for lunch. A hungry, grown cat sees the wiener and tries to take it from Pussyfoot. So, in defense of his kitten friend, Marc Anthony fights the cat on the steal beams of the partly constructed skeleton of a building.
Whoa, Be-Gone!
Layout
Wile E. Coyote's plans for catching the Road Runner involve a giant elastic spring, a gun and trampoline, TNT sticks in a barrel, and tornado seeds. The last of these schemes results in the Coyote being swept up by a twister and carried into a mine field.
Zoom and Bored
Layout
Wile E. Coyote uses a bottle full of bees, a brick wall, a boulder in a catapult, and a harpoon gun in his usual unsuccessful attempts to catch the Road Runner.
Шерстекрад
Layout
Ralph Wolf tries to forcibly remove Sam Sheepdog in order to gain access to a flock of sheep. Without success, he uses a lasso, cannon, a string of firecrackers, and a giant rubber band.
Scrambled Aches
Layout
Wile E. Coyote uses, among other things, a dehydrated boulder to try to catch the Road Runner. He applies a drop of water to enlarge it from pebble-size to usual boulder dimensions, but it enlarges as Wile E. is lifting it over his head, coming down on top of him.
Дедукция, говоришь?
Layout
Daffy Duck is a detective who is hunting for the Shorepshire Slasher.
Ready.. Set.. Zoom!
Layout
Among the strategies that fail in Wile E. Coyote's attempts to catch the Roadrunner: glue on the road, a giant rubber band, an outboard motor in a wash tub, and dressing in drag as a female Roadrunner.
Stop! Look! and Hasten!
Layout
A Burmese tiger trap, a pop-up steel wall, a motorcycle, and a box of Acme-brand leg-building vitamins can't help the Coyote (Eatibus anythingus) catch the Road Runner (Hot Rodicus supersonicus).
Claws for Alarm
Layout
Porky and Sylvester go on a creepy vacation.
The Cats Bah
Layout
Penelope, an American tourist cat who's gotten a white stripe of paint down her back, is pursued through the Casbah by the amorous skunk Pepe Le Pew, who woos her with his rendition of "As Time Goes By".
No Barking
Layout
A homeless cat (Claude Cat) searching for food is harassed by the playful antics and barking of an energetic pup (Frisky Puppy). Frisky repeatedly sneaks up behind the poor tabby cat (who hates the dog) and scares it into jumping vertically when it barks. After Claude finally silences the pup, he encounters a larger dog, whose bark has a disastrous effect. Tweety Bird has two lines. Can you guess what they are?
It's Everybody's Business
Art Direction
Animated propaganda advocating for the importance of unregulated capitalism to the American way of life.
Понеслись!
Layout
Hypnosis doesn't help the Coyote catch the Road Runner, nor do a clutch of string-controlled rifles or dozens of mousetraps, but they all manage to backfire on him, naturally.
Бычок для Багза
Layout
Bugs Bunny once again making that "wrong turn at Albuquerque" burrows into a bullring, where a magnificent bull is making short work of a toreador. The bull bucks Bugs out of the arena, prompting the bunny to declare "Of course you realize, this means war!" The deft Bugs' arsenal comes plenty packed, as he uses anvils, well-placed face slaps and the bull's horns as a slingshot. The bull fights back, using his horns as a shotgun barrel. The bull's comeback is short-lived; just after Bugs makes out his will, he lures the bull out of the arena, just in time to set up a rube-like device that leads to the bull's defeat.
Чокнутая утка
Layout
The short-tempered Daffy Duck must improvise madly as the backgrounds, his costumes, the soundtrack, even his physical form, shifts and changes at the whim of the animator.
Белоснежка и семь гномов
Background Designer
Экранизация знаменитой немецкой сказки братьев Гримм о Белоснежке, жившей в замке со злой мачехой-королевой, которая очень гордилась своей красотой. Узнав от волшебного зеркальца, что Белоснежка стала самой прекрасной девушкой на свете, завистница решила погубить прелестную падчерицу. Но бедная девушка не погибла в лесу, а наоборот, встретила там настоящих друзей — забавных семерых гномов: Профессора, Ворчуна, Весельчака, Скромника, Чихоню, Соню и Молчуна…
Слон Элмер
Background Designer
Слоненок Элмер приходит на день рождения к тигрице Тили, но звери смеются над его длинным хоботом и ему приходится уйти. А в это время домик Тили охватывает пожар, и верные друзья Элмер, жираф и пеликаны спешат на помощь.