Here are sundry frame grabs from some 1932 Fleischer cartoons, randomly selected by reader Devon Baxter for your viewing pleasure. “Boop-...

Frank Tashlin tries a gag from an overhead perspective in “Porky’s Railroad” (1937). Porky’s old-fashioned, decrepit steam engine is pulling...

Sam Berman was commissioned to draw caricatures of NBC’s top stars that could be used in the network’s advertising starting in the 1947-48 s...

Occasionally, background artists in old-time animated cartoons would put the names of co-workers in their work; Paul Julian at Warner Bros. ...

Here’s a cartoon you wouldn’t have seen on Saturday mornings or in syndicated packages. That’s because it’s a little over a minute long. ...

People wanted to hear and see their favourite stars. That’s why there was no turning back to silent films when talkies came in for good. An...

Happy Easter, Bugs! Three consecutive frames from “Easter Yeggs” (released 1948). The only credited animators are Izzy Ellis, Dick Bicken...

“Crusader Rabbit” wasn’t the first made-for-TV animated cartoon series but it was arguably the first popular one. Crusader appeared on stati...

George Pal’s Puppetoons were a sensation in the 1940s. Seven of them were nominated for Oscars and spawned stop-motion animation elsewhere, ...

“If I had a gun, I’d shoot myself,” says down-and-out Woody Woodpecker, putting a finger to his head. The finger turns into a gun. He fir...