Plot? In a Van Beuren cartoon, who needs it? Just toss in a fish singing to a cheese, a pig on a fire escape clouting a pail and a parrot w...

The purpose of the 1938 Warner Bros. cartoon You're An Education is two-fold: a) to see how many songs can be fit into one animated sh...

Several episodes of the Jack Benny radio show, and at least one on his television show, involved golf with the plot showing Jack was a prett...

Movie producer Amadee Van Beuren interrupted his honeymoon in June 1929 for one thing—to fire Paul Terry. It was probably the best thing tha...

A joyous Bugs Bunny carefully and deliberately takes aim as Elmer Fudd sobs uncontrollably, thinking he’s killed the wabbit. Now the seq...

By May 1931, Mickey Mouse was domesticated. In The Moose Hunt , he’s basically a boy with a dog. The cartoon ends improbably with Mickey li...

The Golden Age of Radio had more than comedians fronting variety shows, noir-ish detectives, kid adventure stories, adult mysteries, soaps a...