A good way to spend 20 minutes on a restful afternoon is with an industrial short featuring: • A voice-over by Del Sharbutt. • Music by Ja...

Presciption For Life isn’t a campy short, nor is it a very exciting one. I’m posting it for one reason—about 14 minutes of Mel Brandt. Hi...

Although Felix the Cat is my favourite silent film star, the work of the Fleischer studio in that era is creative and enjoyable. I’m not re...

You can probably count on one hand, maybe on one finger, the number of animation directors who made their first film with the help of mental...

Some fine Christmas films have been made over the years. Perhaps you have some favourites. And then there’s A Visit to Santa . If it were ...

Before he cracked up Harvey Korman on The Carol Burnett Show , before he bumbled around with Joe Flynn on McHale’s Navy , Tim Conway had an...

The U.S. government spent money to get you to give them your money to invest. There are film examples galore where the government urges Ame...

There was plenty of talk in the 1970s about the saving the environment and, by extension, saving the Earth. From it was born the environment...

“The business of America is business,” newly-elected president Calvin Coolidge is quoted as saying about 100 years ago. Certainly business b...

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 ...

We don’t talk a lot about non-American animation on the blog, as the focus is mainly on theatrical cartoons that appeared on TV in the 1960s...

They tried to save network radio. It was a lost cause. Since the late 1920s, people wanted television in their homes. It took some time to ...

It’s all straightforward. The caricatures to the right are of Warner Bros. animation artists Abe Levitow and Bob Doerfler. They’re dressed ...

Mike Wallace lulls us into a false sense of security and then—WHAM!!! He hits us with what he really wants to get across? A “60 Minutes” e...

In 1957, power companies and manufacturers joined forces to come up with the Live Better Electrically Medallion Home programme. It was promo...

Yes, times have changed. Here’s a short cartoon to prove it. Today, we just programme emergency numbers in our cell phone. In 1984, you cou...

Log Driver’s Waltz may be one of the most popular cartoons to come out of Canada, but that’s not what this post is about. That cartoon was...

The festive part of the festive season may not have been so, well, festive, in the city where there’s tinsel all year round. True, stars an...

One of the busiest industrial studios in the 1940s and ’50s gets no notice from animation fans today. It was Raphael G. Wolff studio at 1714...

In 1956 Capitol Records, under the supervision of John Seely and Bill Loose, put together a library of stock music cues called “Capitol Hi-Q...