The people in Hicksville are so ignorant, they don’t know anything about the star they are welcoming to their town. That’s revealed at the e...

Jack Benny would try to accomplish a simple task but get hamstrung by waitresses, store clerks, cab drivers and all manner of people. That w...

Bill Nolan was an animation pioneer who, among other things, is credited with inventing the long background that could be slid under animati...

Oswald the Rabbit Foxy deals with a recalcitrant cow and a runaway streetcar in Trolley Troubles Smile, Darn Ya, Smile! . Yeah, there are...

Cartoon studios of the 1920s and very early ‘30s had a fascination with mechanical horses which I’ve never understood. Why not draw a real h...

On May 9, 1961, FCC Commissioner Newton Minow declared that television was a vast wasteland. A year later, the number one show wasn’t a live...

Just as The Flintstones transposed suburbia of the 1950s into the Stone Age, so Tex Avery transposed suburbia of the 1950s into how cars wo...

Wellington the dog beats himself up out of frustration at the end of Doggone Cats , a 1947 release from the Art Davis unit at Warners. Here...

Jack Benny arrived at Toronto’s Malton Airport where he was to be greeted by 50 children playing “Love in Bloom” on their violins. Instead,...

There’s something nice about seeing old cartoon characters revived, provided the revivals are done well. Revivals are really nothing new...