A vaudeville audience goes wild over Betty Boop singing That’s My Weakness, Now in Stopping the Show (1932). There are two cycles animate...

Radio’s serial dramas seemingly had to feature three things—soap commercials, someone with amnesia preyed upon by an evil woman, and an orga...

MGM’s animators were among the best at making expressive characters. A good example is the ring announcer in Tex Avery’s Señor Droopy , anim...

Much has been said about the geometric shapes and camera angles in Chuck Jones’ “The Aristo-Cat” (1943) when the spoiled housecat (Claude) r...

“How I could use some of that fuzz today,” Jack Benny read, and then quipped to the studio audience on Fred Allen’s show “I could use a good...

Not too many teenaged boys have stage names, but you see one in the picture to the right. He was born Lionel Lazarus Salzer on March 22, 1...

A bank robber tells Woody Woodpecker to keep playing while he hides in a piano in Convict Concerto (1954). The piano, Woody, the con and an...

Some shapely-legged chorines dance in a Western bar to “Ida (Sweet As Apple Cider)” in the Tom and Jerry cartoon In the Bag (1932). Except ...