Wile E. Fox

Wile E. Coyote wasn’t around in 1939, but his expressions were being refined by then.

Chuck Jones has a fox character in Robin Hood Makes Good who grimaces at the camera just like Wile E. would do more than a decade later.



Jones was big on side glances, even early in his career (this cartoon was apparently his third directorial job). Here’s an example when the fox tries to chomp down on a squirrel but gets only daisies instead.



If anyone think Jones’ Good Night Elmer drags, it has an excuse. It’s a cartoon about sleep. This cartoon looks like it’ll never get moving with that extended “Who’ll be Robin Hood” sequence opening things. Berneice Hansell and Margaret Hill Talbot are heard on the soundtrack; I think Talbot is two of the squirrels but it’s hard to tell.