Swirling lines to indicate action in cartoons are always lots of fun. I’ve never been quite sure if they’re handled by an effects department...

If I had a choice of one Droopy cartoon to watch, it’d be the wonderful Western “Drag-a-Long Droopy” (released 1954). The gags keep coming o...

The quiz show scandals claimed the lives of plenty of shows rife with phoniness. But one game show with an element of fakeness was untouched...

One of the fun things in silent cartoons is when characters, Felix the Cat especially, took question or exclamation marks, or words, and tur...

Bob Clampett’s “Book Revue” screams along at such a pace that you don’t have time to ask yourself questions. Such as: Who are these peopl...

Jack Benny’s show started out as a musical-variety one and when it finally went off the air 23 years later in 1955, about the only vestige o...

The complaint’s been raised that for many years people only thought of Walt Disney when they thought of animation. It’s entirely logical. Be...

Some people write off Tex Avery’s “The Cat That Hated People” (1948) as a “Porky in Wackyland” (1938) wanna-be because it has strange creatu...

There’s a neat effect that the Fleischer studio came up with to enhance the force of the impact from Popeye’s spinach-fueled violence. Here’...

It’s been awhile since I posted box ads for Charlie Mintz’ Krazy Kat cartoons from The Film Daily . So here are a bunch more from 1928. Min...