Jerry shoves a bee hive on Tom’s head in Tee for Two (1945). Tom checks it out. The bees form an Abe Lincoln beard around the cat. He react...

Jack Benny had his quirks. And with that statement, we proceed to learn about none of them. What we do get in the January 1934 edition of Ra...

They won seven Oscars. But did anyone notice. Or care? Tom and Jerry came along in 1940. In the 1930s, critics fell all over themselves pra...

Backgrounds from Hugh Harman’s pride and joy, Peace on Earth (1939). The background artist is uncredited. So is the effects animator who dr...

Mickey Mouse’s runaway horse gallops toward the camera in The Plowboy . The animator uses a cycle of 32 drawings, one per frame. Here are so...

Radio and television of the 1940s and ‘50s needed someone to tell it the Golden Days weren’t always so golden. That someone, at least in the...

Betty Boop sings a push for votes in Betty Boop For President (1932). And she does impersonations, too, morphing her appearance. Oddly, she...

Tex Avery made several cartoons involving noise and escaping it so someone doesn’t hear it. There’s Rock-a-bye Bear , Deputy Droopy and, in...