Warner Bros. fired Chuck Jones after learning that he had worked on Gay Purr-ee (1962), an animated feature produced by United Productions of America, in violation of his exclusive contract with Warner Bros. Though he would return to the company in 1976, in the interim he set up an independent studio with many of the animators he had worked with at Warner Bros.
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