Friz Freleng would have turned 121 today. Readers of this blog are knowledgeable enough that they don’t need me to go through his backgrou...

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...

When sound came into theatres, animated cartoons featured piles of celebrity caricatures and parodies. So did radio shows, too. The early Ja...

Bugs Bunny makes a 360-degree turn in perspective in Falling Hare (1943) as the gremlin trips him up with banana peels. These are 17 conse...

Warner Bros. had cartoons titled Wacky Blackouts , Wacky Wild Life and The Wacky Worm , so why not a “wacky” cartoon at Screen Gems? Wacky...

Several Chuck Jones cartoons in the first half of the 1940s featured smear animation. The Dover Boys (1942) may be the best-known example. ...