Now Hear This (film)

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Now Hear This is a 1963 animated short film in the Looney Tunes series produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc. It was directed by Chuck Jones and co-directed by Maurice Noble. John Dunn shares story credit with Jones.

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A devil loses his left horn, which is found by an elderly Britishery. This gentleman uses the horn as a hearing trumpet. Soon he experiences a series of aural and visual hallucinations. A bug sounds like a locomotive; a butterfly causes him to see strange patterns; a short man in a pink suit makes mischief, at one point pulling a telephone from the horn and turning the phone's mouthpiece into a shower outlet before lighting the fuse to a "GIGANTIC EXPLOSION!" Abstract designs dance in the background as the soundtrack thunders under musician Bill Lava and sound effects technician Treg Brown.

This was the first Warner Bros. cartoon short to use the "modern" abstract opening and closing sequences, which would be used on all mid-1960s WB shorts, mainly produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises and Warner Bros. Animation.