The MGM cartoon “Pipe Dreams” (released 1938) has everything you’d expect in a Harman-Ising cartoon—creative character designs (some extreme...

Few people today can say they starred on a network radio show in the 1920s. One of them was a young blues singer who is known to millions of...

We’re told a hungry trout will always go for eggs in Tex Avery’s Field and Scream (released in 1953). A trout proves it. And a fire even bu...

Warner Bros. managed to get some mild humour from making fun of familiar names of celebrities, reading material and stuff you could buy at t...

Today, we present Buster Keaton’s great 1921 short for Metro, “The High Sign.” It was still playing in New York City a year later. Variety ’...

All the great comedians found what worked and stuck with it. The Jack Benny, George Burns and Bob Hope of 1940 were pretty much the same, wh...

Just how are those animated cartoons made? Feature stories in newspapers answered that question over the years. One of them was courtesy of...

The Walter Lantz studio through a good portion of the 1940s liked outline drawings. In previous posts, we’ve pointed out several Woody Woodp...

Pausing in the middle of a cartoon for some commentary by a character or a sign is a favourite Tex Avery routine. We find it in Who Killed W...