Wildlife is frolicking or resting around a sleepy mountaineer at the start of the Walter Lantz cartoon “Pass the Biscuits, Mirandy.” Th...

Betty Boop tries to get away from the circus ringmaster (William Pennell) but trips over a rock outside her tent in “Boop-Oop-a-Doop” (1932)...

By all rights, the debut of the “Tonight” show on September 27, 1954 should have been a smooth success. After all, it didn’t just pop onto t...

Here’s a perspective sequence from Tex Avery’s “What Price Fleadom” (1948). A bulldog is chasing a flea. Then the dog starts hopping exactl...

You know the joke. A musical instrument is rigged to blow up whenever Bugs Bunny hits the right note on the old song “Endearing Young Charms...

He made his fame out of one word—“Yes.” Of course, it sounded like more than a word when he got through with it. Radio and TV audiences how...

There was a time, you youngsters reading here today, when local TV stations had kids shows in the afternoon with a live host. He’d ad-lib ...

George Pal tries a bit of an elaborate camera move in “Jasper and the Haunted House” (1942). The camera is looking down onto the main floor ...

Woody Woodpecker’s angry in “The Coo-Coo Bird” (1947), as he spends about a third of the cartoon battling the title character. There are so...

On July 27, 1953, WNBT in New York began broadcasting a live, local 40-minute show that eventually became one of the greatest success storie...