There’s a great sequence in Walter Lantz’s The Bandmaster (1947) where a drunk on a circus high-wire sees pink elephants. There’s a cut to ...

Delightful news has come out from the Warner Archive Collection twice this year. First, the company was able to release all four seasons of...

He was a screenwriter, a columnist, a disc jockey and a cartoon voice, but may be known more for sticking his head out of sofas, mailboxes a...

Animation takes could be pretty exaggerated during the years of World War Two. Take a look at Tex Avery’s Northwest Hounded Police (MGM, 19...

There may not have been a comedian who was analysed so much during his time as Jack Benny. Over the years, we’ve posted a number of article...

Carl Stalling had a great advantage when it came to scores for Warner Bros. cartoons. All songs published by Warners’ subsidiaries were avai...

Van Beuren cartoons are at their best when weird stuff happens out of nowhere. Not an awful lot weird happens on In the Park , a 1933 Tom an...

Here we have an eight-frame cycle of a camel chewing on, well, I’m not quite sure. Note the spacing of the drawings. There seems to be barel...

I’ve always enjoyed Madge Blake on the Batman TV series. She gave fine performances as the naïve but kindly Aunt Harriet. Considering the...

Let’s get the phrase out of the way right now. Teen idol. You’ll see those words on any story dealing with one of 16 Magazine’s greatest ...