abstract:The Night Watchman is a Merrie Melodies cartoon released to theaters on November 19, 1938. This short was the very first film directed by a then-credited Chuck Jones after he was promoted from an animator (where he was under Fred Avery and Robert Clampett's units).
My mother died when I was two, so he raised me and my two sisters on his own, paid the bills as a nightwatchman at the IBM plant in Poughkeepsie after years of playing jazz in New York City.