Animation fans should have no trouble discerning which studio was responsible for this recreated pan background. It’s from UPA’s The Empe...

Vancouver and Jack Benny seem to have met up every few years. In a way it was odd, because no Vancouver radio station broadcast Jack’s show ...

Was Walt Disney being a public spirited citizen trying to preserve American freedom, or was he getting revenge because of the bitter strike ...

Oswald is chased into a cave by a vicious bear in Tall Timber (1928). The fight! Uh, oh. It seems the bear has a fetish. Oswald ...

Who knew Betty White could act? Through the 1960s and into the ‘70s, I didn’t. I never saw her on anything but game shows. Back then TV Gu...

There’s an enjoyable little twist in the opening titles of Tall in the Trap , a 1962 Tom and Jerry Western directed by Gene Deitch. There’s ...

In the 1960s, New York City had a small collection of actors who used their voices to make a living in cartoons and commercials. Allen Swift...

You should recognise one person’s name in the newspaper clipping to the right from April 22, 1933. That’s when she was in the San Francisco ...

The opening of The Village Smithy , a 1936 Warner Bros. cartoon, contains some of the elements that director Tex Avery would use throughout...

The thespian dog’s “great inner strength” makes him survive being pushed down a mountain in a baby carriage by the two polite gophers. Or s...