The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics (The Dot and the Line) (1965)

The Dot and the Line

“After his tenure with Tom and Jerry, a love-it-or-hate-it period in which Chuck Jones was heavily criticized for trying to transform the cat and mouse into Looney Tunes proxies, Jones directed the only two non-Tom and Jerry shorts for MGM. The first was also his lone competitive Oscar win. Other short films he had directed had seized the grand prize, but since he wasn’t listed as a producer he didn’t get his name on the statuette.   The most immediately evident difference between his beloved Looney Tunes work and this strange little short is the sense of complete abstraction at play here. Lacking any recognizably human characters, Jones uses splashes of bright colors and geometric shapes, backgrounds that swirl and constantly change patterns to tell us the emotional journey of a bl” read more

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"DIR: Chuck Jones, Maurice Noble SUMMARY: A line falls in love with a dot but the dot prefers the more anarchic charms of a squiggle. WHY IT'S HERE: MGM's 'The Dot and the Line' (subtitled 'A Romance in Lower Mathematics'), directed by the ever reliable Chuck Jones, was based on a book by Norton Juster, who wrote the novel that most influenced me as a child, the wonderful 'Phantom Tollbooth' (Jones also made a feature length cartoon based on that book). If you removed the narration from 'The "