UPA set out to tell animated stories with a more modern drawing style than generally seen on the screen, with mature characters (that is, no...

Animated cartoons were moving into representational background art as the 1940s moved toward the 1950s. Even an industrial studio like John ...

An out-of-control airplane takes aim at a cow in Plane Crazy (1928). Comedy ensues as we get a perspective of the propeller-driven plane...

This is the story of a woman who went on a TV show she didn’t watch and didn’t even like, a woman who won a prize then said it wasn’t enough...

Perhaps it’s because he grew up in an era of silent films, but Tex Avery avoided dialogue when it really wasn’t necessary. This blog has all...

Bob Clampett’s Book Revue is a cartoon that whips along and hits you with everything—perspective animation, rubbery characters, an incredib...

Jack Benny toking up? We don’t know if it ever happened, but he wanted to give it a try (You’d think one of his musicians would be able to ...

The Walter Lantz studio may have reached its peak in the late ‘40s. The irony is the peak suddenly ended with the studio being closed for mo...

One has to wonder whether the family life wasn’t the life for Van Beuren animators, judging by Puzzled Pals (1933). Over at Warner Bros., ...

The Warner Bros. cartoons provided more than inspiration at Columbia/Screen Gems. They were the targets of outright thievery. A duck that l...