Tex Avery never lets up. He starts a routine and then keeps going and going with different variations on a gag. Here’s an example from “The...

Jack Benny did not slow down until the very end. He died on Boxing Day 1974 at the age of 80 and spent much of the year busy every day eithe...

The movies ripped me off as a kid. Saturday matinées where I grew up consisted of a Disney live-action feature and a really bad Woody Woodpe...

Tex Avery’s anonymous cat discovers the cuckoo he wants to kill is sitting atop his golf club in “The Cuckoo Clock” (released 1950). These a...

Last year, we went through a bunch of Bob Thomas’ Yuletide season columns; Bob was the movie columnist for the Associated Press based in Hol...

As Christmas has now transformed into yet another day, it is only appropriate that Santa transform into something else—like a hideous old cr...

Christmas is a time for animators and others who toiled during the Golden Age of Theatrical Cartoons to show their skill to friends and rela...

What did you get for Christmas? A toy horse for just under $200 perhaps? Well, you might have if this was 1952. And you were the child of a...

Christmas comes but once a year but a fall from a cliff comes every cartoon to Wile E. Coyote. Well, it seems that way. Christmas and a cl...

Jerry Beck described “Bedtime for Sniffles” (released November 1940) as “A charming Christmas cartoon, a rare Warners bow to yuletide sentim...