T.V. of Tomorrow was no kiddie cartoon. Gags were aimed at sex-starved 1950s suburban men. There’s a television set with a Faye Emerson-esq...

The familiar theme of noise/silence is explored yet again by Tex Avery in his final theatrical cartoon, Sh-h-h-h-h-h (Walter Lantz, 1955). ...

Who'd shoot a soon-to-be-mother duck? Well, either the dog version of George or Junior in Tex Avery's Lucky Ducky (at least someone...

“To clear up the mystery of whether the light stays on or goes off when you close the door of your refrigerator,” says the narrator in The H...

Of all the people whose fame came from television in the 1950s, Jackie Gleason may have been the one with the biggest influence on theatrica...

Hurrah, I say, to the new generation of animation researchers. They deal in facts, not connecting dots based on wishful thinking. Even long-...