Percy the cat is skipping along, courtesy of Carlo Vinci, in Cat Happy , a 1950 Terrytoon. He’s carrying a cake. Cut to a close-up of a bana...

Sylvester is a great character. He’s expressive no matter who the director is. Here are some frames from Gift Wrapped , probably my favouri...

Fans of Phil Harris, outside of the Disney animated features, think of him as the character from the Jack Benny radio show—self-loving, lady...

He worked for Walt Disney, animated for Tex Avery and brought Spider-Man to the small screen. Yet Grant Simmons is one of the many pretty m...

“Certainly here was a friend of the downtrodden!” says narrating dog Ronny, as the camera focuses on a long shot of a Salvation Army-type Sa...

Love's Labor Won (1933) has a few things to like—a singing, overstuffed chair and a singing tiger rug, but it suffers from crude animat...

Arthur Godfrey called nine people into his office after his morning programme went off the air on April 15, 1955. The first thing he said to...

Mountie Elmer Fudd is chasing Bugs Bunny under the Canadian snow in Fresh Hare , a 1942 cartoon written by Mike Maltese for the Friz Freleng...

Rich Hogan and Tex Avery agreed. Fairy tales are worn out. How many parodies did they make at MGM? One Ham's Family (1943) barely star...

Yes, times have changed. Here’s a short cartoon to prove it. Today, we just programme emergency numbers in our cell phone. In 1984, you cou...