Bob and Ray had seemingly countless time-slots and shows that it’s hard to keep up with them. I really liked their 15-minute shows on NBC s...

The only real puzzle in Alice Solves the Puzzle (1925) is why did the cartoon have a superfluous diving scene in the middle of it? Bootleg...

Viewers are behind Swing Shift Cinderella getting a view of the wolf feverishly running toward her. And the door slamming. Cut to the wol...

There’s a bit of there’s-more-to-this-story in an article about Jack Benny’s writers published by the Dayton Daily News on January 13, 1941...

They featured top animators including Emery Hawkins, designers including Tom Oreb and composers including Les Baxter. Some of them were rele...

Even an air of familiarity can’t make Chuck Jones’ Tom and Jerry cartoons entertaining. Here’s a Grinch grin. The dog with the small hin...

At Terrytoons and Hanna-Barbera, Carlo Vinci used to have an animation routine where a character would leap up, stretch out, churn his back ...

His name will always be joined together with Lucy’s. “The same old booze and broads” finally broke up Desi Arnaz’s marriage with Lucille Ba...

Try as they might, the people making Van Beuren cartoons in 1933 couldn’t do Walt Disney. And they tried in Rough on Rats (1933). There’s ...

The pie scene with Bugs and Elmer in Slick Hare is one of my two favourite pieces of timing in a Friz Freleng cartoon (the other is Sam’s b...