There are lots of holiday traditions.

There's the music, the lights, the cookies, and of course, the presents.

And then there's that holiday tradition that millions of Americans have watched on their television sets since 1966.

Christmas, ba-boo-rah-boos, well-doon, Christmas, dah-boo.

Currently, at the Franklin Park Conservatory is the largest exhibition of Chuck Jones' original art from Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

Chuck Jones was the legendary animator and director of over 250 films in a career spanning almost 70 years.

Though his name might not sound familiar, his characters certainly will.

Perhaps you might recall someone named Bugs Bunny or a Road Runner or even a Mr. Elmer Fudd.

Chuck Jones started, he originally met Dr. Seuss in World War II and they were in the animation department and they did a cartoon called Private Snafu and that's how their relationship started.

How the Grinch Stole Christmas, turning that into a film was years after that and then Dr. Suess didn't want to make anymore movies because he had had problems with Hollywood.

He had done a number of movies with them and they were having...

Bunches of problems and so he decided that he was done with Hollywood and he wasn't going to do any more films but Chuck Jones went to him and convinced him.

While the film we see now may have started with a friendship, cell animation is a very different process than the animated movies we see today.

Every single frame is hand drawn and there could be thousands upon thousands of them.

But still, Jones' comedic influences from Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin translate even in a single image.

Seeing the cells hung on the wall, they are art within themselves.

And you can see how this.

This turned into this.

The way that movies were made back then was completely different.

There was no digital and so they had to draw every single second, every single movement.

They had to have a draw line for.

And it takes 12 drawings to do one second of movement.

Understanding that there's just so much more appreciation that goes into the film when you see these cells and you think wow it took they did 50,000 drawings for the movie and then only used i think they used 15,000 of them Jones was a pioneer in the field of animation and his effects are still seen on filmmakers today.

He is quoted saying that, animation isn't the illusion of life, it is life.

And with the timeless nature of his work, you might tend to agree with him.

This is Ashley Brooke, reporting for Artsy.

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