Mahatma Gandhi believed in separating his people from British rule, opposed a British-imposed tax (on salt) and wanted an independent nation...

Inanimate objects come to life as Flip the Frog is captured by cannibals in Africa Squeaks , a 1931 cartoon from Ub Iwerks. The King claps...

Is there any doubt that Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf was the most popular song written for a cartoon short in the 1930s? It was compos...

Animators will use ghost images, multiples or airbrush strokes to indicate speed in cartoons. In Ub Iwerks’ ComiColor short The Brementown ...

Flip the Frog escapes from one of Ub Iwerks’ murderous skeletons in Spooks (1932), crashing through them while riding the underside of an o...

Professor Crackpot tells us he bade his wife a fond farewell, but (and here’s the gag) she actually threw him out of the house. Here’s a ...