Animation takes could be pretty exaggerated during the years of World War Two. Take a look at Tex Avery’s Northwest Hounded Police (MGM, 19...

Carl Stalling had a great advantage when it came to scores for Warner Bros. cartoons. All songs published by Warners’ subsidiaries were avai...

Shamus Culhane takes his time in a hand-bashing scene in Reckless Driver , a Woody Woodpecker cartoon released in 1946. Wally Walrus slowly...

I enjoy some of the absurdity in the early Walter Lantz sound cartoons. Here’s an example from Let’s Eat (1932). Oswald and an unnamed dog...

Crazy Mixed Up Pup (1955) has a plot only Tex Avery could think up. A human is given dog plasma and a dog is given human plasma, which resu...

“There’s gold in them thar hills!” proclaims Oswald the rabbit in Alaska (1930), a Walter Lantz production. The mountain confirms it by ...

Don Patterson, Ray Abrams, La Verne Harding and Paul J. Smith were the credited animators at the Walter Lantz studio when it returned to ope...

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit disappears for about half a cartoon in The Quail Hunt (1935). Perhaps he wanted to avoid being connected to this so...