When is a Van Beuren cartoon not a Van Beuren cartoon? Simple. When it’s a Harman-Ising cartoon. In 1933, Leon Schlesinger parted company w...

The phoniness of the movie business gave Fred Allen plenty of material for his sardonic sense of humour. Many quotes survive on the interne...

“Cellbound” was Tex Avery’s last cartoon for M-G-M, released (November 1955) more than two years after his unit was disbanded (March 1953). ...

Gene Deitch’s Tom and Jerry cartoons are, if nothing else, distinctive. Oddly-proportioned characters, overly-reverbed sound effects, jerky ...

Maurice Noble and Phil De Guard get together again for the Bugs/Daffy cartoon “Ali Baba Bunny” (released 1957). It’s known more for “Hassan ...

I enjoy watching animated commercials from the 1950s, far more than I do some of the animated shorts that came out during that time. I don’t...

Many years ago, a TV critic whose name escapes me complained in print about how the plot of every “Happy Days” episode would squeal to a sto...

If you had to pick the most significant event in theatrical animation in the first half of 1933, you might get disagreements. Some would arg...

Since Al Jolson was Warner Bros. first big sound-era star (arguably, Jolie’s “The Jazz Singer” saved the studio) , it’s appropriate that he’...