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The Dover Boys at Pimento University is a 1942 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Chuck Jones and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. A parody of the Rover Boys, a popular juvenile fiction book series of the early 20th century, it was one of the first cartoons to make extensive use of limited animation, as well as other techniques that would only be more broadly popularized in the 1950s. Michael Barrier, an animation historian, wrote: "Is The Dover Boys the first 'modern' cartoon? ... Chuck Jones stylized the animation in this cartoon in a way that anticipated what several consciously modern studios like UPA would be doing a decade later." The Dover Boys was voted by animation professionals as number 49 in The 50 Greatest Cartoons, published in 1994. It was released on September 19, 1942, and has a running time of 8 minutes, 56 seconds.Film credit: Chuck Jones