There was a fascination, it seems, among radio fans about watching their favourite show in person as it was being broadcast. Fred Allen dism...

100 years ago, if you mentioned the name “George Stallings,” the manager of the National League Boston “Miracle” Braves would come to mind. ...

The gag of someone creating musical notes that form a stairway goes back to the days of when the sound of the notes came from someone in the...

Arts and Flowers is an unusual cartoon as Woody Woodpecker is animated in ways that weren’t done very often. He’s got a stiff-legged loping...

Radio fans loved mistakes. Every verbal screw-up by Don Wilson or Mary Livingstone on the Jack Benny radio show brought howls from the stud...

Gene Deitch bewailed the old-fashioned cartoons being pumped out at Terrytoons when he arrived there in mid-1956 and decided he wanted some...

Legend is Tex Avery wanted to have a group of ducks harassing Porky Pig in Porky’s Duck Hunt , but animator Bob Clampett convinced him it wo...

There are thousands upon thousands of animated films made in the 1950s that have not had a real serious examination or compilation by histor...

“Check your local listings” sometimes didn’t work in the Golden Age of Radio. Jack Benny toiled for NBC for most of his radio career. Sitti...

One of the great voices of animated cartoons started his career on film in the silent era. He’s Billy Bletcher. Bletcher was one of the fi...