There’s always some weird stuff going on in the early Walter Lantz sound cartoons. For some reason, in Merry Dog (1933), Santa Claus sudden...

How different was Christmas in Hollywood 90 years ago? Well, for one thing, film fans must have had longer attention spans and better vision...

Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising’s Toyland Broadcast was released at Christmas time in 1934 but it really wasn’t a holiday-themed cartoon. The f...

The fairy godmother has everything in place to magically create Cinderella’s coach and horses, just like in the book. Except it doesn’t t...

Jack Benny pretty much put the town of Waukegan, Illinois in the national consciousness during his radio and TV career. For years, his show ...

As much as A Charlie Brown Christmas and How the Grinch Stole Christmas are loved and seen every Yuletide season on TV (and whenever peopl...

A lovebird trying to commit suicide-by-cat pretends to be Santa in the Oscar-nominated Life With Feathers (released 1945). Sylvester is, na...

Stars swirl around a fir tree and pop to form Christmas decorations at the end of the Popeye outing Seasin’s Greetinks! (1933). The stars a...