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). ...

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...

It’s bemusing that old animated cartoons are either not seen, are edired or contain warnings. These very same cartoons already went past the...

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...

A couple of familiar names to staff at the Walter Lantz studio found their way into the 1956 cartoon Pigeon Holed . Two of them are Lantz...

Andy Panda’s dad tries to blow up a pesky, unnamed woodpecker with sex in Knock Knock (1940). His bait: a time bomb inside a mechanical fem...

What cartoon starred a duck that had to deal with a changing background behind him? Duck Amuck , you say? Well, that’s one answer. But 15 y...