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Released
1962 · FILM

Adventures of the Road-Runner

Directed by
Runtime
26 min
AnimationComedy

Synopsis

*Adventures of the Road-Runner* is an animated film directed by Chuck Jones and co-directed by Maurice Noble and Tom Ray. It was originally intended as a pilot for a television series featuring Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, but was not picked up until four years later, when Warner Bros. Television produced *The Road Runner Show* for CBS from 1966 to 1968 and later for ABC from 1971 to 1973. As a result, the film was split into three additional shorts. The first was *To Beep or Not to Beep* (1963). The other two were assembled by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises in 1965 after they took over the Looney Tunes series. These split-up shorts were titled *Road Runner a Go-Go* and *Zip Zip Hooray!*.

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How many hands made this film

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Principal cast & crew: 13

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Treg BrownScored by Milt FranklynDesigned by Maurice Noble

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