So Much for So Little

So Much for So Little
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Airdate:	1 January 1949
Series:	United States Army Shorts
Production Number:	3093
Crew
Voice Characterizations:	Mel Blanc (uncredited) Frank Graham (uncredited)
Director:	Charles M. Jones Friz Freleng (uncredited)
Written By:	Charles M. Jones (uncredited) Friz Freleng (uncredited)
Producer:	Eddie Selzer (uncredited)
Animated By:	Ben Washam Ken Harris Phil Monroe Lloyd Vaughan
Layout Artist:	Robert Gribbroek
Background Artist:	Paul Julian Peter Alvarado
Film Editor:	Treg Brown (uncredited)
Musician:	Carl Stalling
Orchestrations:	Milt Franklyn (uncredited)

So Much for So Little is a 1949 documentary short directed by Charles M. Jones and Friz Freleng.

Plot

Little Johnny Jones, to be born in the next year, is growing to a ripe, healthy old age, thanks to the efforts of his local public health officers. But without them, he might be one of the five percent or so that dies in the first year. The price for the public health service is about three cents a week.

Availability

(2003) DVD
Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 1, Disc Three (part of ToonHeads: The Lost Cartoons)

(2004) DVD
Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2, Disc Four

(2008) DVD
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection, Disc 1 (restored)

(2011) Blu-ray
Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 1, Disc Three (restored in SD)

(2012) Blu-ray
Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 2, Disc Three (part of ToonHeads: The Lost Cartoons)

Notes

• This short won the 1950 Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) alongside "A Chance to Live", making it the first animated film to accomplish so and resulting in the first exact tie at the ceremony.
  • It is also the second Chuck Jones-directed cartoon to win an Oscar that year, the other being "For Scent-imental Reasons".
• As this short was created for the United States government, it was never copyrighted, thus it is in the public domain in the United States.
• The short had been considered lost since its release. However, in 1997, the short was discovered at the UCLA Film and Television Archive by Jerry Beck and George Feltenstein, and was originally planned to be included as supplemental material on The Golden Age of Looney Tunes: Volume 5 Laserdisc set. It was scrapped when Turner Entertainment and Warner Bros. were unwilling to cooperate. The short eventually made its home video debut on Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1 as part of ToonHeads: The Lost Cartoons. It was later included as a standalone short on Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 2 as a bonus feature. The short was restored on the Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection in 2008.

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