Writer Mike Maltese pulls the old switcheroo in “Little Red Riding Rabbit” (1943). Bugs Bunny has outsmarted the wolf in the Red Riding Hood...

Attractive backgrounds, elaborate title cards, a cute operetta score and turntable sets are the highlights of the Fleischer cartoon ‘Poor Ci...

Publicity agents by the office-load spent their careers fretting how to dream up gimmicks that would get their clients noticed. Jack Benny g...

If Walt Disney can get ink, Leon Schlesinger must have thought, so can I. By the late ‘30s, he had a PR person named Rose Horsley. But he st...

Tex Avery Rule No. 586—animals are fooled by other animals’ really lame disguises. Actually, the Hanna-Barbera unit at MGM used this rule, t...

Every cartoon studio in the mid-1930s, well, everyone except cheapskate Paul Terry, felt they had to make a special series of knock-off Disn...

The idea that “radio people can’t act on camera” is ludicrous, considering how many radio people made the jump (not that they had much choic...

Tom’s tail gets abused several times in ‘The Mouse Comes to Dinner’ (1945). The best scene is when Jerry puts it into a candle-holder and li...

Here’s why you should never stare at the camera while you’re in mid-air. Was there ever a cartoon character more aware of his audience than ...

“Never changes his act,” is how an angry comic once berated Hearst columnist Jack O’Brian about Jimmy Durante. Mind you, O’Brian realised he...