Garry Moore can owe much of his success to three things—his own talent, a sponsor that could pull network strings and an unlikely teaming wi...

The 1932 Fleischer cartoon “Chess-Nuts” opens with Betty, Bimbo and the bad guy King popping up from pieces on a chess board (it’s a photo u...

Woody makes a bee-line for an off-screen phone booth in “Chew Chew Baby” (released in 1945). His left foot pokes toward the camera for two f...

It wasn’t uncommon for a radio station in the late ‘40s or early ‘50s to have a cartoon mascot to be used in advertising. Some are very attr...

Show folk are modest folk, to hear Jack Benny tell it. Of course, he wasn’t around today to see young stars melt down in public because they...

You may be hard-pressed to finish the sentence “Remember the scene where Efrem Zimbalist Junior...” Zimbalist, who died this past week at a...

The Golden Age of Prime Time Animation, if there was such a thing, was awfully short. But it received a steady build-up. Through the 1950s,...

Felix encounters a giant when he rides a smoke ring to the clouds in “Land O’Fancy” (1926). The giant isn’t happy Felix has stolen his bottl...

The wolf matador uses his red cape to get a ferocious bull to wear himself out in a dance to a solo conga drum in Tex Avery’s “Señor Droopy”...