The familiar theme of noise/silence is explored yet again by Tex Avery in his final theatrical cartoon, Sh-h-h-h-h-h (Walter Lantz, 1955). ...

SCTV was not only the most brilliant show to come out of Canada, it was one of the best of all time to come out of anywhere. It started as ...

Van Beuren cartoons vary between odd and bizarre. Red Riding Hood (1931) falls in the “bizarre” category. There’s the scene where grandma ...

Yet another of television’s familiar faces on comedies in 1970s belonged to a man who found occasional employment as the bumbling Colonel Cr...

Some years after making the Roadrunner cartoons, Chuck Jones came up with his list of “disciplines” he supposedly etched in stone for the se...

There are times in the early Fleischer sound cartoons where characters talk but don’t move their mouths. Then you have the exact opposite in...

A good way to spend 20 minutes on a restful afternoon is with an industrial short featuring: • A voice-over by Del Sharbutt. • Music by Ja...

New writers and new actors. That’s what greeting Jack Benny in the second half of 1943 when he returned from a USO tour of Europe and the Mi...