Jack Benny’s career in Canada was an odd one. Starting in fall 1944, Canadians had to listen to, or later watch, his show from American bor...

Yes, there were cartoons on movie screens before 1914’s Gertie the Dinosaur. And the creator of some of them never lived into the time of t...

There’s a lot to like in a Freberg. Sneakers. Glasses. Flip-top head. There are some things missing in that phoney jingle (to the tune of...

A hiatus is defined as a pause or break in activity. The Tralfaz blog has been on a hiatus several times, mainly because other things in l...

Two men got the idea in 1948 of making something new—animated cartoons for television. That was even though there was no television where th...

Woody Woodpecker is too busy singing and pointing at people in the theatre watching his cartoon that he crashes his car into a telephone pol...

Several Chuck Jones cartoons in the first half of the 1940s featured smear animation. The Dover Boys (1942) may be the best-known example. ...