Porky Pig meets a tough kid smoking a cigar in Wholly Smoke , a 1938 cartoon from the Frank Tashlin unit. The tough kid pulls off some sm...

It’s Rubber Hose Time at Disney, something the studio got away from because it wanted its cartoons to look “real.” In The Barnyard Battle ...

Fred Allen’s guests on Town Hall Tonight on February 26, 1936 were Jack Benny and Mary Livingstone, a number of months before the acciden...

You’d like to think people who worked hard through the tedium of animation in the age of theatrical shorts lived to be a ripe old age and in...

Mice are destroying the home belonging to the most casual farmer in the world in Van Beuren’s Barnyard Bunk (1932). The mice are kind enoug...

Let’s get this out of the way. To my thinking, Mike Maltese wrote a Yosemite Sam cartoon for Chuck Jones but because Sam was Friz Freleng’s ...