Walter Lantz was a survivor. His cartoons weren’t as wild and lippy as ones out of Warner Bros. They didn’t have the stunning animation of ...

The Last Mouse of Hamelin starts with an interesting premise—suppose the Pied Piper didn’t remove all the mice from Hamelin. Suppose a musi...

The sun rises in the Flip the Frog cartoon The Milkman (1932) but the rooster isn’t crowing. He’s still sleeping. A sun-singe to the butt t...

He moved to Hollywood in 1932 but Jimmy Durante never lost that 1920s New York speakeasy entertainer atmosphere about him, even four decades...

Chuck Jones’ unit was experimenting with various kinds of backgrounds during the war years. Some consisted of geometric patterns but all wer...

Life was not easy for pioneers heading West, we’re informed by the narrator of Homesteader Droopy (1954). “There were wide rivers to cross....

It’s a tune that may be more Canadian than “O Canada.” It’s the theme to “Hockey Night in Canada.” Every Saturday night, there it was on t...

I suppose the question “What’s Jack Benny really like?” is a legitimate one. A writer for one of the dailies in Los Angeles tried to answe...

Women can’t handle being animators. Walt Disney was convinced of that. It was pointless for women to even apply for the job at his studio. H...

There was a time when Disney cartoons had little bits of impossible fun in them. Here’s a scene from Alice Rattled by Rats , a 1925 silent...