In the 1930s, the Leon Schlesinger studio had a story department and everyone would pitch gags for each cartoon. In some cases, it’s a wild ...

In every high-concept sitcom of the 1960s, the concept (a talking horse, a car that’s a dead mother, a wifey witch, a genie in a bottle) is ...

If you want to watch a Warner Bros. cartoon that isn’t a Warner Bros. cartoon, then seek out Columbia/Screen Gems’ 1947 epic Wacky Quacky . ...

A couple of familiar names to staff at the Walter Lantz studio found their way into the 1956 cartoon Pigeon Holed . Two of them are Lantz...

If you wanted an actor to blow up into a rage, you hired Fred Clark. That’s what Jerry Fairbanks Productions did in the A.T. & T. indus...

The beginning of the end of network radio was nigh. And everyone knew it. Americans had been pretty much promised there would be television...

Here is a statement I defy you to disagree with. Paul Frees is great. It’d be fool-hardy, and probably impossible, to list everything he ...

One of the great things about Hare Tonic , a 1945 Warner Bros. release, is that the action never lets up. Bugs Bunny continually gets the be...

You have to wonder what took place during story sessions at the Van Beuren cartoon studio. Jolly Fish is a 1932 short starring Tom and Jer...