On June 18, 1939, singer Kenny Baker appeared on ‘The Jack Benny Program’ and to all the world it sounded like he would be with the rest of ...

There are no credits on the version of the Tom and Jerry cartoon ‘Dog Trouble’ (1942) on DVD, save the directors and producer, but Irv Spenc...

There was a time when Paul Terry didn’t have the same toilet-splash sound in every cartoon. That’s because his splash, if there was one, did...

There’s nothing like a singing cartoon box of detergent, I always say. The ad’s from 1941 (right click and open in a new window to enlarge)....

It’s a birthday today. You could have learned to have played the organ from him, like someone did in this newspaper ad from March 12, 1929. ...

The last thing I’d want to hear on the radio is someone screeching in a whine or laughing like a gurgling child. But that’s what one station...

I like Art Davis. He handled Daffy Duck really well and Porky Pig’s star briefly re-shone under his direction. One of the best Davis cartoon...

Chuck Jones was hopelessly enamoured with cuteness in his early cartoons, so it’s somewhat startling to find him not only trying for comedy ...

Put Larry Olivier or Maurice Evans on stage doing Shakespeare and you’ll have a happy audience. Put me on stage doing it and you’ll have an ...

A great example of Tex Avery’s humour can be found in the climax of the plot of ‘Out-Foxed’ (released November 5, 1949) The antagonist in th...