Was there even one cartoon studio which didn’t use the pepper/sneeze gag? (Besides maybe UPA). It goes back at least as far as “Felix Gets B...

The most baffling censorship demands were forced on Fred Allen. He related once how he was banned from using a certain phoney name on the ai...

Here’s a wonderful pan shot (thanks to Nick Richie for snipping it together) from the opening of “Swooning the Swooners,” a 1945 Terrytoon t...

Whether it was characters reading title cards, stopping the action and demanding the credit roll or hatching out of nuts and then beginning ...

Cagey, clever and quick, that George Burns. He allowed old age to turn him into a celebrity raconteur with a zillion funny stories that nett...

After Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera opened their own cartoon studio in July 1957, they developed a reputation for dependability and, more imp...

Animators can be helpful, even in their own cartoons. Witness this example from “The Lion Hunt,” a Terrytoon released at the start of 1938. ...

“I didn’t go back and still-frame it,” said animation writer and historian Earl Kress, “but it looked to me like Jerry disappeared for a fr...

There is, out in the wide world today, a sub-set of the population known as Grumpy Former Radio People. Their main place of gathering is bro...

In “Wild and Woody!” a Western type has uncontrollable hiccoughs. I’m certain Bugs Hardaway had to have come up with this gag. Nobody els...