Animators can be helpful, even in their own cartoons. Witness this example from “The Lion Hunt,” a Terrytoon released at the start of 1938. ...

“I didn’t go back and still-frame it,” said animation writer and historian Earl Kress, “but it looked to me like Jerry disappeared for a fr...

There is, out in the wide world today, a sub-set of the population known as Grumpy Former Radio People. Their main place of gathering is bro...

In “Wild and Woody!” a Western type has uncontrollable hiccoughs. I’m certain Bugs Hardaway had to have come up with this gag. Nobody els...

It takes 23 seconds to get from here... Through the clouds... To here. Only Tex Avery would try to see if he kept the audience that l...

There was a running gag on the Jack Benny radio show about his eyes. “Oh, they’re blue, aren’t they?” Bea Benaderet or some secondary charac...

I suppose it’s a matter of debate whether J.R. Bray was more of a businessman than a cartoonist. His film career began in animation, but he ...

Okay, I get it. UPA was the anti-Warner Bros., the anti-Disney. But its cartoons became anti-entertainment. I’ve just sat through “Picnics ...

Shamus Culhane found interesting ways to use the camera during his first stint as a director. There were several Lantz cartoons where the ca...

Did you ever hear Milton Berle go “urrrrr”? If you did, there’s a reason. The answer’s contained in this column by the Associated Press dat...