Jack Benny had his radio gang—Mary, Phil, Dennis, Rochester—but he had another gang, too. During the war, Jack entertained troops in variou...

In 1960, he had a cartoon studio on Cahuenga Boulevard and invented a caveman named Fred. Bill Hanna? Joe Barbera? Dan Gordon or Harvey Eis...

Art styles were changing in animated cartoons in the late ‘40s, and there are some good examples in the John Sutherland Productions industri...

Felix the Cat probably wasn’t the first, but he was among the silent cartoon characters to drag out the pepper/sneeze gag that got good mile...

Jack Benny evolved a “gang” type comedy and a character in the early 1930s that others were stealing more than a decade later. One of them ...

No plot, but there’s lots of dancing and musical synchronisation in the barnyard in Musical Farmer , a 1932 Mickey Mouse cartoon. There’s o...

The good news was Leon Schlesinger had finally rid movie screens of Buddy in 1935. The bad news was he was replaced by Beans. Tex Avery was ...

Jack Benny’s comic abilities were lauded by everyone and so was his kindness and charity. That includes praise from some people in show busi...

Walter Lantz always strikes me as a decent enough man, even though his cartoons left a lot to be desired as time went on. He had an extreme...

What would a Van Beuren cartoon be without mouths joining together in song? One of them is the 1932 short Stone Age Error . What is the er...