“Swing You Sinners” is an amazing cartoon. It was produced by the Fleischer studio in 1930. It’s leaps and bounds above animated shorts made...

As best as I can tell, Tex Avery either came up with the spot-gag cartoon format or moulded it into such a success that other studios tried ...

Novelty show business acts catch the public’s fancy for a while and then fade away. One that made a splash on radio and the movies in the la...

The Fleischer studio animators seem to have loved whipping around Olive Oyl’s spaghetti arms and legs. They did it really creatively in “You...

The Little Tramp is alive and living in feline form in “Pent-house Mouse,” the first Tom and Jerry cartoon made by Chuck Jones. Tom scoots a...

Broadcasting boils down to money. Companies (I hesitate to call them broadcasters) will put something on the air, no matter how mediocre, be...

Not long ago, the blog featured George Burns telling Jack Benny stories. Today, we have the reverse. This is half of a column (the other ha...

It’s an understatement to say the highlight of the second half of 1937 in the cartoon world was the release of “Snow White and the Seven Dwa...