1956 may be one of the most important years in theatrical animation, perhaps as much as 1928 when sound began to revolutionise the industry....

Ub Iwerks’ ComiColor series tried to imitate the Walt Disney world of fairy tales and nursery rhymes but didn’t display much of the polish o...

Everyone was convinced after the opening of the 1939 New York World’s Fair, where RCA demonstrated and broadcast television and then began s...

The mid-1960s were a time of painfully unfunny comedies. I should know. I watched most of them when they first aired. They all seemed to hav...

Scare takes abound in Tex Avery’s Slap Happy Lion (1947). In one sequence, the lion manages to swallow a tormenting mouse, who responds by ...