For a few cartoons early in its theatrical life, UPA opened with a horse with a tartan. I presume the tartan was on a background while the ...

Likely the most famous scene in the Tom and Jerry cartoon Piano Tooners (1931) is when Jerry chases and bashes a bad note that comes out of...

Henry Morgan had the distinction of being on ABC-TV before there was an ABC-TV. In 1946, there were nine television stations in the U.S; s...

There are some pretty clever visualisations, even making old groaner puns funny, in Tex Avery’s Symphony in Slang (released in 1951). And t...

May 2, 1942. There’s a war on. As you are reminded at the start of the Warner Bros. cartoon The Wacky Wabbit , released on that date. I s...

How many top stars or celebrities do you think would call you with a special greeting? Let us tell you about one who did. Jack Benny spen...

Do you know what this is? Yes, I know it’s a house. But do you know whose house? Scrapologist Harry McCracken (or is it “Scrappologist” ...

I get the feeling that Bob Clampett told his animators “Go as much over the top as you want to” when Kitty Kornered was in production. Som...

Why, oh, why, didn’t background artists get credit on cartoons from the beginning? Mouse in Manhattan (MGM, 1945) has some beautiful backgr...

McHale’s Navy was accused, in some quarters, of being a seagoing Bilko . The two sitcoms really weren’t the same. Despite a large cast, Bil...