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In 1941, Maltese was hired by Leon Schlesinger Productions , which three years later became Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc. . Starting in the late 1940s , he worked exclusively with director Chuck Jones , and the two of them collaborated on classic cartoons like the Academy Award winning '' For Scent-imental Reasons '' (1949) and the animated public health documentary, ''So Much For So Little'' which won that same year for "Best Documentary Short Subject". Some of his earlier works included '' Bear Feat '' (1949), '' The Rabbit Of Seville '' (1950), and '' Rabbit Fire '' (1951). Some of his best known cartoons are '' Feed The Kitty '' (1952), '' Beep, Beep '' (1952), '' Rabbit Seasoning '' (1952), '' Don't Give Up The Sheep '' (1953), '' Duck Amuck '' (1953), '' Bully For Bugs '' (1953), '' Bewitched Bunny '' (1954), '' From A To Z-Z-Z-Z '' (1954), and '' Beanstalk Bunny '' (1955). He also worked on '' One Froggy Evening '' (1955), the first appearance of future Warner Brothers mascot Michigan J. Frog . Some of his later cartoons were '' Ali Baba Bunny '' (1957), '' Robin Hood Daffy '' (1958) and the seminal '' What's Opera Doc? '' (1957) and '' Duck Dodgers In The 24½th Century '' (1953). Maltese also collaborated with Jones on the 1960s TV cartoon show '' Tom And Jerry ''. From 1958 until 1970 , he worked at Hanna-Barbera Productions on television cartoons such as '' The Huckleberry Hound Show '', '' The Flintstones '', and '' The Jetsons ''. EXTERNAL LINKS
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