Friday, 9 January 2026
An Appetite For Music
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The Fleischer Screen Song Come Take a Trip in My Airship (1930) doesn’t start out with a trip or an airship. A piano is delivered to the ap...
Thursday, 8 January 2026
Solving the Fridge Mystery
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“To clear up the mystery of whether the light stays on or goes off when you close the door of your refrigerator,” says the narrator in The H...
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Wednesday, 7 January 2026
The World of Don Pardo
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NBC radio shows featured big-time, part-of-the-programme announcers like Don Wilson, Ken Carpenter or Harry Von Zell, but at the tail end of...
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Tuesday, 6 January 2026
Cohwumbia Wabbit
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Columbia/Screen Gems did pretty obvious knock-offs of Warner Bros. characters. There’s the Columbia version of Daffy Duck ( Wacky Quacky ), ...
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Monday, 5 January 2026
A Close Nazi Shave
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Cat equals Nazi in The Fifth Column Mouse , 1943 Warner Bros. cartoon directed by Friz Freleng. Fifth columnists were traitors who support...
Sunday, 4 January 2026
Tralfaz Sunday Theatre: Improve Your Personality
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Two big stars in one small film! Ah, not just any small film. But one made by those teenage behavioural specialists—Coronet. The company’s...
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Things Go Swimmingly For Jack Benny
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It likely won’t surprise you to learn that Radio Guide , in June 1935, announced that a poll with 1,256,328 votes had picked Jack Benny as t...
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