Jack Benny constantly and consistently promoted Waukegan, Illinois as his home town. But by the time he started in radio in 1932, not only h...

Not being a Disney-phile, I associate Ray Huffine’s name with the Walter Lantz studio, where he took over from Ray Jacobs. His first cartoon...

Time for some more zooming heads from a Van Beuren cartoon, this time from Midnight (released Oct. 12, 1930). The storyline is basic. A re...

Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera weren’t above re-using and borrowing, even before opening their own studio. The Tom and Jerry series went on and ...

Fred Allen returned to the airwaves on October 7, 1945 after a year away for health reasons. He changed networks (NBC from CBS), sponsors (S...

Porky Pig, in an airplane, chases a fish in Plane Dippy , the third short by director Tex Avery released by Warner Bros. For a while at W...

Fudget’s Budget won first place in the animated short subject category at the Venice International Film Festival in 1955. Donald Heraldson,...