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Commercial Animation Directors

g with the most slavish love to Uncle Lynn's stories. He never disappointed us, the ending was all a small boy could hope for: there was never a hint of morality, no overt heavy-handed effort to make us better children, better adults, or better anything except learning the love of listening (Jones 27).

This could be a description of Jones's own use of stories in his short films, stories for their own sake.

Jones cites his father as another important influence on his young life and credits him with helping the boy develop a love for language, something else that would be important in his film career as he found ways to mangle words and create humor through the act. He remembers his father complaining about Warren Gamaliel Harding because he did not use the language properly:

"Warren Gamaliel Harding," he grunted angrily, "shovels words with the same lack of respect we would show in shoveling manure. As long as it sounds portentous, it doesn't matter to him if it has meaning. He doesn't know the meaning of the word 'meaning'" (Jones 32).

The father taught the importance of precision in language and how that would help convey something to a listener that muddled language never could.

Jones also credits a fortuitous encounter with a complete set of Mark Twain left in a new home into which the family moved as another important event that shaped his perceptions. There were several reasons for this. The first was because the author "used words the way the graphic artist uses line control" (Jones 34). This love for words oddly gave Jones the idea for one of his most enduring characters, a character who never spoke:

I was first interested in the Coyote while devouring Mark Twain's Roughing It at the age of seven. I had heard of the coyote only in passing references from passing adults and thought of it--if I thought of it at all--as a sort of dissolute collie. As it turned out, that's just about what a coyote is,...

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