After Jack Benny’s success on radio and TV, he took to the stage again. Not necessarily with a variety revue like he had in the 1940s and ‘5...

For years, you’ve read or heard about Manny Farber’s praise for Warner Bros. cartoons. Any claim he was he first to take notice of them is h...

The Phantom Ship was released by Warner Bros. on Feb. 1, 1936. But when was the cartoon made? We can get an idea when the shot cuts to a n...

Phil De Guard gives viewers of Bye Bye Bluebeard some inside gags in a medicine cabinet in Porky Pig’s bathroom. When Bluebeard opens the ...

You have to wonder when Estelle Blanc saw her husband. Until he was signed to an exclusive theatrical cartoon contract by Leon Schlesinger ...

Warner Bros. cartoons occasionally re-used animation footage and, sometime, gags. Here’s an example of the latter. First, from Friz Freleng...

Chuck Jones employs stick figures in parts of his 1944 look at life on the home front, The Weakly Reporter (released March 24). “The gir...