Establishing shot painted by Bill Butler from a layout by Bob Givens. This Sylvester/Speedy Gonzales cartoon was directed by Bob McKimson...

One of Jack Benny’s loves was getting in the car with someone and going somewhere. That “someone” wasn’t his wife, Mary Livingstone. Trips t...

Van Beuren cartoons weren’t exactly A-list cartoons, and studio owner Amadee Van Beuren decided to change that. Up to 1934, the Van Beuren...

Trying to pick out something interesting from Walter Lantz cartoons by the mid-1950s isn’t all that easy. In Bedtime Bedlam (1955), Woody ...

The early, crazed Daffy Duck isn’t the only one at Warner Bros. who jumped around, turning cartwheels, while yelling with excitement. Porky ...

The sub-headline in the Hackensack Record of October 13, 1923 read “Walter Tetley, Seven, of Ridgefield Park, Can Imitate Famous Scotchman ...

Willie Whopper storms the hideout of some banditos in Viva Willie and crashes into a wall. Evidently the crash was so great it somehow k...

There’s a pan shot near the start of Blitz Wolf (1942) from the ersatz Practical Pig’s trench through the blue-ish forest and ending on a b...

Game shows in the 1960s had a number of guest panelists who popped by on occasion, and audiences likely weren’t aware of the range of their ...

Dennis Day had two shows. Phil Harris had two shows. That was a running gag on Jack Benny’s radio show. It was used as another put-down of J...