In the beginning was Mel Blanc. Well, that’s how it seemed. If you were a kid who watched Warner Bros. cartoons on TV in the ‘50s, ‘60s and...

I love the designs in “Destination Earth.” It’s a mid-1950s propaganda cartoon for the oil industry made by the John Sutherland studio. Tom ...

“Minnie the Moocher” (1932) is another great Fleischer cartoon, mixing ghosts, skeletons, weird creatures and Cab Calloway’s music. One lit...

As a pre-teen watching “Hollywood Squares,” I knew all the regulars except one. Paul Lynde guest starred on sitcoms. Rose Marie was on the “...

Sylvester has a string tied to his tooth—then realise Tweety has attached it to a lit rocket in “Bad Ol’ Putty Tat.” There’s one short take,...

Jack Mercer wasn’t the first voice of Popeye, but he’s the one everyone thinks of. He did it for decades. Here he is with two imposters in a...

It doesn’t take long for a sign gag to appear in Tex Avery’s early cartoons at MGM. Here’s an example in “Who Killed Who?” Tex sets up the m...

Here’s another fan magazine story, supposedly written by Jack Benny about himself and his radio show. This appeared in the monthly Radio Mir...

Things were not going too well for animated cartoon studios toward the end of 1947. Columbia had closed its operation for good and Walter La...