If you wanted to get an old-timer in show business to light up, all you had to do was say the word “vaudeville.” All of them seem to have be...

The Depression wouldn’t seem like a good time to open a cartoon studio, unless you had a tie-in with one of the major studios so your shorts...

Recognise this silent film star? A little over 20 years later, he’d be on TV, bald (what hair he had was grey) and interacting with a car...

“The Chow Hound” (1944) is an unusual Snafu cartoon because Snafu isn’t punished or learns from a mistake. In fact, no one does (unless any ...

Is there much doubt that Mark Goodson and Bill Todman were the class act of the game show business? They were the producers whose panellis...

I suspect the bulk of the readers of this blog weren’t alive during World War Two, and therefore have to learn cultural references to the wa...

There’s a great fast-forward effect in the Popeye “Shoein’ Hosses” (1934) and it’s built right into the background drawing. The scene quic...

Newspaper cartoonist Milt Gross made two forays into the animation business, and you likely only know about one of them. Fans of MGM cartoon...

The best thing that could have happened to Phil Harris unfolded in 1937. They changed his character. The Jack Benny radio show had been inc...

Jay Ward Productions had a tie-in for years with cereal makers, first with the great TV show Rocky and His Friends sponsored by General Mil...