Bugs and Thugs (1954) has a wonderful routine where Bugs hides the thugs inside a stove and pretends the police are coming—then the whole t...

When Late Night With David Letterman premiered in 1982, the only one on the show I didn’t know was Letterman. I never saw his daytime show....

A quick series of costume changes makes up part of Magical Maestro . Below are pairs of consecutive frames. There are no transitions. It’s...

Van Beuren cartoons had unexplainable gags that came out of nowhere. And so did their predecessors, the silent shorts from the Amedee Van Be...

You couldn’t help but see the incongruity of someone who couldn’t see, selling light bulbs. As Television Age of March 21, 1960 put it in ...

World War Two changed the professional lives of many performers. Some saw action in military service, while others who signed up were only i...

If you wanted to work in animation in the silent era, the place to go was New York City. Well, that was until Walt Disney opened a studio i...

The Dizzy Acrobat (1943) stars Woody Woodpecker heckling a circus cop who refuses to let him in for free. The cartoon ends with a scene whe...