There are plot holes the size of Texas in Tex Avery’s last theatrical cartoon, “Sh-h-h-h-h-h” (released in 1955) but there are still some fu...

His claim to fame in radio was reporting from Normandy Beach on D-Day, but George Hicks was a newsman who got the facts wrong about his own ...

A publicity biography planted in a newspaper said on the night of his TV starring debut on Sunday, September 15, 1957: He was understudy to...

The end of World War Two was not altogether, I suspect, a time of celebration for cartoon production companies. Overseas markets were open a...

Here’s the opening shot of the Woody Woodpecker cartoon “Destination Meatball.” Fred Brunish was the background artist, though Woody is on c...

The best part of the Scrappy cartoon “The Bad Genius” (1932) is the fish in the bowl that tag along to provide comic relief. Well, some Scra...

American TV viewers finally said “Ahhhh, shaddap!” to Milton Berle. But for a few years, he really was Mr. Television. Sales of sets zoomed ...

The sun gets up in the morning—and it apparently had a rough night. These are some of the drawings from “Morning, Noon and Night,” a 1933 Fl...

“Interesting to behold is the evolution of the tropical butterfly,” says Robert C. Bruce, as we sit back to enjoy another phoney travelogue....

You want an example of how times have changed? A comedian today could never get a laugh out of owning a Maxwell. Even if anyone in the audi...