What cartoon starred a duck that had to deal with a changing background behind him? Duck Amuck , you say? Well, that’s one answer. But 15 y...

A “scream bomb” lives up to its name in Tex Avery’s Blitz Wolf . Note the ghost multiples to make the movement faster. Animation is ...

He was the conductor of the Hollywood Baby Orchestra in late 1930 at age six. Newspapers around that time shaved what few years they could o...

Vultures on the Mohave Desert think they are going to eat Mighty Mouse in Triple Trouble (1948). Foolish vultures. Haven’t they seen a Migh...

It goes back to Felix and Disney's knock-off version of the cat in the silent film days. The old pepper/sneeze gag (my guess is it was i...

We mentioned yesterday that Hugh Harman Productions made cartoons for the military during the war. Some of them for the U.S. Navy were simil...

Jack Benny and his writers never wasted a lot of potential material. They managed to wring laughs out of all kinds of things. One was Jac...

Ah, Hollywood. Land of Make Believe. Not just on the screen but in print, too. There were all kinds of movie magazines, with concocted P.R...

Popeye was invincible after eating spinach, so the Fleischer staff found ways to make it backfire. In Can You Take It (1934), Popeye leaps...