A cat has had its tail stepped on by a fan dancer. Cut to a patio with a screen in the background. The cat runs into the screen, which co...

Friz Freleng’s Rhapsody in Rivets (1941) was one of a number of cartoons to synchronise Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 to animated action...

Buried in the “Coming and Going” column of Film Daily of July 13, 1936 is this item: BESSIE MAES, animator connected with the Max Fleische...

Comparisons of theatrical cartoons and TV cartoons are quite unfair, and I’ve tried to avoid making them on my two animation blogs. It’s ind...

Walt Disney had been praised in the 1930s (with some help from his publicists) for the creation of Mickey Mouse and his foray into feature-l...

In the mid-1930s, when theatrical animation on the West Coast had reached the point where studios needed professional actors to voice their ...

Ah, yes, the old cartoon gag of lifting up or moving a hole. Here’s an example from the early days of sound in Walt Disney’s The Picnic (19...

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...

So much has been written about Steamboat Willie that I am loath to say much about it on this blog. Mind you, I said that the last time I br...

Director Wilfred Jackson goes for dark-light visuals in a shoot-em-up scene in the Mickey Mouse cartoon The Klondike Kid (1932). Here’s an...