A shot of a fake newspaper with some real names opens the pre-Bugs Bunny cartoon Hare-Um Scare-Um (1939). There’s a drawing of co-direct...

Some of you reading here are old enough to remember when a real organ used to play at baseball and hockey games. Eventually, organists got f...

Porky opens a door in an abandoned yacht club and out fly a number of bats. In fact, one with a moustache soars directly at the theatre audi...

A couple of related radio references highlight the ho-hum Hardaway/Dalton effort Hobo Gadget Band , released by Warner Bros. in1939. Hobos ...

You’ll be waiting a whole cartoon to get any laughs out of the Bugs Hardaway-Cal Dalton short Gold Rush Daze . They just aren’t there. Three...

One of the many fun sidelights of watching Warner Bros. cartoons from the ‘30s and ‘40s is to spot gags that are not designed for the theatr...

Bugs Hardaway and Cal Dalton aren’t among guys I consider top-flight cartoon directors, but there are beautiful backgrounds and creative lay...