![]() ![]() Jones, therefore, went out and gave 25 showings of the storyboard to the breakfast food and chocolate companies who all refused it. I did most of the drawings-about 1700 - I had a few people who gave me very good help too… In those days though, it isn’t like it is today-you had to sell it to a sponsor and then you’d go to the network and say, ‘Well, here’s the product. “We talked about it and decided on How The Grinch Stole Christmas! Then I had to talk MGM into the idea of spending money for a storyboard. He was pretty sour on that but I told him this was television… So I called up Ted and I asked would he be willing to think about doing it-he was anti-Hollywood because, after the war, they pirated a lot of his stuff and took his credits off some documentaries, one of which won an Academy Award and somebody else took it. “So I went to MGM and told them I thought it was time we did something in that field and I thought that Dr. ![]() ![]() “I really wanted to do something of his ,” Jones later explained. Since then Giesel had become well known for his children’s books such as The Cat in the Hat (1957) and Green Eggs and Ham (1960) - the ideal fodder, Jones thought, for an animated short. The two men had known each other during the war when they had collaborated on Private Snafu, the Army’s instructional cartoon shorts that followed the misadventures of the incompetent soldier of the title. ![]()
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