Art Davis gets a thumbs-up from me as a director at Warner Bros. What Makes Daffy Duck? is a great cartoon by any standard; I really enjoy...

Director Wilfred Jackson goes for dark-light visuals in a shoot-em-up scene in the Mickey Mouse cartoon The Klondike Kid (1932). Here’s an...

Bugs and Thugs (1954) has a wonderful routine where Bugs hides the thugs inside a stove and pretends the police are coming—then the whole t...

When Late Night With David Letterman premiered in 1982, the only one on the show I didn’t know was Letterman. I never saw his daytime show....

A quick series of costume changes makes up part of Magical Maestro . Below are pairs of consecutive frames. There are no transitions. It’s...

Van Beuren cartoons had unexplainable gags that came out of nowhere. And so did their predecessors, the silent shorts from the Amedee Van Be...