Wall-to-Wall Chuck

Boomerang — the offshoot of Cartoon Network — is running a Chuck Jones Marathon, commencing at 8 AM on Friday, March 1 and running 'til 8 AM the following morn — 24 hours of cartoons.  It's kind of amazing to realize that, even if they don't repeat any during that span, they still won't be airing all that he did for Warner Brothers and MGM.  Chuck directed 207 cartoons for WB and directed (or supervised, with others directing) 34 more for MGM.  So that's 241 cartoons.  During marathons, Cartoon Network seems to manage about seven shorts per hour, so that's 168 films…or about 70%.  Figure in the TV specials, features and other shorts for which Jones was responsible and it's obvious that a solid day of Chuck won't even cover half of the man's incredible lifetime output.