There’s not a lot of mountain music in the 1933 Warner Bros. cartoon I Love Mountain Music . There are some western musicians and Will Roger...

We mentioned yesterday that Hugh Harman Productions made cartoons for the military during the war. Some of them for the U.S. Navy were simil...

Ah, Hollywood. Land of Make Believe. Not just on the screen but in print, too. There were all kinds of movie magazines, with concocted P.R...

There’s a problem starting a football game in Bosko the Drawback (1932). The timekeeper’s gun doesn’t have a bullet. It has an egg. The egg...

Before we get to the lacklustre Beau Bosko , let me grumble about the worse-than-lacklustre copies of many of the Bosko cartoons that circul...

Tex Avery tried a split screen gag in 1939 in Thugs With Dirty Mugs , and did it again the following year in Cross Country Detours . Narrat...

There should be a drinking game where you glug down something every time someone in a Bosko cartoon says “Ain’t that cute?” In The Tree’s K...

Spaghetti-limbed characters didn’t quite go out with the early 1930s. UPA used them on Gerald McBoing Boing and other cartoon shorts 20 yea...