Tralfaz
Sunday, 14 December 2025

The Departure of Phil Harris

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It took the better part of a decade for the Jack Benny radio show to settle down with the main cast we remember best. If you think of Benny’...
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Saturday, 13 December 2025

Hollywood Greets Marvin Miller

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Not many people have the versatility to narrate the Old Testament, the story of Nutralite, and the tale of Fox in Socks. And lend his voice...
Friday, 12 December 2025

Dry Brush Wolf

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Tex Avery’s first cartoon with Droopy was Dumb-Hounded (1943) and one where he pushed the boundaries of takes with the wolf (expanding even...
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Thursday, 11 December 2025

Let There Be Light

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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 ...
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Wednesday, 10 December 2025

He Didn't Shrink At Playing a Shrink

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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 ...
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Tuesday, 9 December 2025

Familiar Duck, Familiar Gags

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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 . ...
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Monday, 8 December 2025

A Lantz Inside Gag

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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...
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Sunday, 7 December 2025

Tralfaz Sunday Theatre: A Manner of Speaking

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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...
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What? Worry About Television?

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