Harry Truman’s piano playing became another subject for gentle humour on radio comedy shows while he was president but evidently Truman didn...

Perhaps the biggest development in the animation industry in 1927 was the release of the Oswald cartoons by Universal. Oswald’s history is p...

Bugs Bunny realises he’s just seen an orangey hairy monster wearing runners in “Hair-Raising Hare.” We get some takes. Here are a few of the...

Here’s a little bit of inventive limited animation from the Fractured Fairy Tale “Beauty and the Beast.” The Beast (who sounds like a cross...

In 1929 and 1930, you could turn anything into a musical instrument in a cartoon. Oswald does that in the 1930 short “My Pal Paul.” Look at ...

The bad guy who’s after Lem’s girl tries to chop Lem’s head off in “The Hick Chick” (1946). These are five consecutive drawings; the second ...

Radio’s most popular Southern Belle is 94 today. She grew up amidst the plantations, mint juleps and boll weevils of that well-known city of...

Today, if you want to check out a bunch of quotes, especially from popular culture, you can go to any number of web sites. Back in the 1940s...

The animated cartoon business in the Golden Age is full of people who should be better known. Ted Eshbaugh is one of them. Eshbaugh worked ...

Popeye’s bothered by lightning bolts in the opening scene of “I Yam What I Yam” (1933). No matter. He gathers them into a bunch and punches ...