There’s an eight-second scene in Little Rural Riding Hood where the country wolf is chasing after country Red creating a series of doors in...

For a period of time, Jack Benny had time reserved near the end of his programme for a public service announcement. It would get chopped if ...

The Fleischer studio had come a long way from the start of the 1930s, when a cartoon mouse would jump out of an old geezer’s beard and yell ...

There’s an interesting animation effect in The Headless Horseman , a 1934 ComiColor short by Ub Iwerks. There’s a dissolve to Ichabod Crane...

Some terrific pantomime highlights Operation: Rabbit wherein Bugs Bunny outwits Wile E. Coyote, super genius. There’s a knock at the door. ...

Billy De Wolfe did not disappoint me. The first time I watched the Rankin-Bass Frosty the Snowman cartoon, De Wolfe’s precise staccato d...

Cavemen used to drag their women along by the hair. Whether it’s true, I don’t know, but that was the impression given to us kids back in th...

Columbia’s The Shoemaker and the Elves has everything a 1935 colour cartoon had—an original song, fairy tale characters and really mild gag...

Gaggles of reporters—or whatever a plurality of reporters is—tended to descend on Jack Benny around St. Valentine’s Day every year to chat w...

“Over the past few years,” wrote Alex Ward in the Washington Post in 1974, “there has been a steady rejuvenation of interest in animation, ...