UPA’s Mr. Magoo cartoons had sight gags (in more ways than one), but what really benefited them was the vocal performance of Jim Backus. Ho...

Pink and Blue Blues starts off with Mr. Magoo mistaking a fish bowl for a television and a fish for Esther Williams, and spends the remaind...

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 ...

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 ...

Our Kartoon Kwestion Box has a Quincy query (better make that “Kwincy kwery” for more “komedy”). “Since Mr. Magoo has trouble seeing, why d...

There must have been an incredible feeling of irony going through the UPA studios when they won the contract to make Man On The Land . It w...

Warner Bros. cartoons had names hidden in the backgrounds, and other studios did the same thing. Here’s an example from the UPA short Baref...

Carl Stalling was the master of musical directors for Warner Bros. cartoons, incorporating pieces of classical music, Raymond Scott’s compos...

Fudget’s Budget won first place in the animated short subject category at the Venice International Film Festival in 1955. Donald Heraldson,...