Babbitt shoves Catstello into a jack-in-the-box in an attempt to shoot him into the air to catch Tweety in A Tale of Two Kitties , a 1942 Bo...

By the late 1950s, Jack Benny had two careers going. One was his television show. The other was the violin concerts he gave all over North A...

It is without fear of contradiction that we stand before you and state that the most cringe-inducing movie posters of all time were the ones...

Gene Deitch won an Oscar, received tributes of his work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and ASIFA in Los Angeles, and has been prai...

Little Tommy Tucker is a brat in Jitterbug Follies , a 1939 MGM cartoon, one of two concocted by Milt Gross during his brief time at the st...

“Interesting to behold is the evolution of the tropical butterfly,” narrator Robert C. Bruce tells us in Aviation Vacation (1941). “Let’s ...

Being able to read off a piece of paper doesn’t mean you can be a voice actor or announcer. It’s true today and was true in 1946 when the s...

I used to boo at the screen as a kid watching the made-for-TV Magoos. They were little more than an endless string of myopia-mistake jokes w...

Ub Iwerks’ ComiColor shorts simply weren’t at par with the Walt Disney Silly Symphonies they were trying to imitate. They had Disney’s past ...

Radio comedians very quickly discovered the difference between their new gigs and their old ones in vaudeville. In the 1920s, they could tak...