Why is a chicken carrying an umbrella on a frozen pond? No, this isn’t a joke. And there isn’t really a joke in this scene from the Terryto...

Vultures on the Mohave Desert think they are going to eat Mighty Mouse in Triple Trouble (1948). Foolish vultures. Haven’t they seen a Migh...

Animated cartoons on prime time television? You can go back to the early 1930s to find them. In the late 1940s, as television expanded bey...

There’s some interesting morphing animation at the start of Bluebeard’s Brother , a 1932 Terrytoon. A sometimes cross-eyed spider has kille...

Percy the cat is either awoken by the sound of Little Roquefort mixing a cake or Phil Scheib’s repetitious hippity-hop background music in P...

One of the big baseball stories of 1946-47, besides Jackie Robinson breaking the race barrier, was the attempt by the Mexican League to raid...