Chucked out

Through the early-1960s, Chuck and his wife Dorothy wrote the screenplay for the animated feature "Gay Purr-ee". The production and publication of the finished film would later pay a large price on Jones' career. As he moonlighted to work on the film, he violated the exclusive contract he had with Warner Bros. When UPA completed the film and made it available for distribution in 1962, soon after it was picked up by Warner Bros. When Warner discovered Jones' involvement in the film, they terminated him, And Jones' former animation unit was laid off after completing the final cartoon in their pipeline, "The Iceman Ducketh", and the rest of the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio was closed in early 1963.