Here’s an explosion effect from Paul Terry’s Sour Grapes (1950), starring Dingbat. A fox plants some dynamite and.... Yeah, that’s the e...

Jack Benny and Fred Allen managed to carry on their phoney radio feud from late 1936 past the time Allen’s show left the air in 1949. The tw...

Walt Disney’s priorities in the 1940s and ‘50s may have been feature-length cartoons and a theme park, but he still had a contract with RKO ...

A little kitten reacts after licking from a pool of castor oil in the Van Beuren cartoon Rough on Rats (1933). He shakes his head, runs aro...

Red Hot Rider and his horse are blissfully sailing through the air. Through the air?!?!!!? The panicked horse decides to turn around a...

He was there any time a TV show needed a character who was an energetic old man. In every role, he was an old man. There was never a time ...

The World of the Future was parodied in animated form before The Jetsons in 1962, though most cartoon fans likely didn’t see one earlier ef...