3-D was, for a number of months in 1953, deemed a possible saviour of the film industry from that dastardly, spreading electronic weed—telev...

No, Porky Pig saying “Son of a (you know what)” didn’t appear in a theatrical cartoon. It was in a gag reel for studio eyes only. You no do...

When you think of radio in the 1940s, you think of NBC, CBS, ABC, Mutual and all the big network shows. But what about stations that weren’t...

“Dixieland Droopy” (released 1954) is a typical Tex Avery cartoon. He and writer Heck Allen set up a premise then pull of a string of gag va...

Bimbo’s Initiation is one of the greatest of the early Fleischer Talkartoons and is one of the most entertaining cartoons of all time. To t...

Gene Kelly hosts this hour-long syndicated show from 1961 looking back at the days of silent film. It’s a shame the soundtrack wows as it ma...

It should be no secret why Rochester became the second-most popular person on the Jack Benny show, next to Jack himself. Who doesn’t identif...

1940 was a pretty good year for Paul Terry. He hired George S. White away from Educational Pictures to be his advertising and publicity dire...

The truant officer dog in Tex Avery’s The Screwy Truant acts like a human through most of the cartoon—except when Tex needs to fit in an ex...