If a huge corporation won’t restore and release all its cartoons featuring the iconic Bugs Bunny, what chance to do you think the forgotten-...

Buried on page 34 of Boxoffice magazine of April 29, 1950 was the news that a new company had been formed called Desilu Productions. It rev...

Another reason why I like Mike Maltese... In “Bunny Hugged,” Ravishing Ronald is treated like a punching bag in the wrestling ring by The C...

Al Hirschfeld’s caricatures are always fun to look at. The first ones that come to mind are the ones he drew for Fred Allen’s book Treadmill...

Swaying palm trees turn out to be anything but in the 1930 Walt Disney cartoon “Cannibal Capers.” The “trunks” of the trees shrink down t...

Television had been growing slowly in the U.S. during the first years after the war with few stations (mainly in the East) and rudimentary p...

Sherlock Holmes on the prowl for a bandit. A lighthouse keeper with his TV on the fritz. A bumbling drunk with a hankering for hair oil. W...

Artie Davis not only animates, but appears in the 1933 Scrappy cartoon “The World’s Affair.” It’s a spoof of the inventions displayed at tha...

Favourite Private Snafu cartoon? I love the flying baloneys in the Leon Schleinsger-produced “Rumors” (1943). Why? Eh, it’s just something a...

There was a time when the most popular show on network radio starred someone who wasn’t real. Charlie McCarthy was an invention of ventrilo...