In 1931, the Van Beuren cartoon studio released Making ‘Em Move , a gagged-up short about how cartoons were made. That same year, the Balti...

This is about as exaggerated a take as the Walter Lantz studio would try in 1939. It’s Winchester the turtle in Life Begins For Andy Panda...

Tex Avery and Heck Allen pull off a phoney ending in Happy-Go-Nutty . “The End” title card appears. But before the cartoon ends, Screwy Squi...

Groucho Marx played a waiter in Double Dynamite (filmed in 1948, released in 1951), so you’d think he might have some sympathy for members ...

Pluto keeps catching the same escaping fish over and over in a piece of cycle animation in Just Fishin’ (1931). Pluto is underwater in the ...

Melvin (Tubby) Millar was a mainstay on the writing staff in the 1930s and into World War Two. He was the pride of Portis, Kansas. A number ...

“Sunday Night at 7” has become a wistful part of the nostalgia of Jack Benny but there was a good portion of Benny’s career when he was not ...

“The dismal turtle”? “The delicious mice”? Who talks like that, anyway? It certainly wouldn’t have been Leon Schlesinger, who is being quo...

An owl sees a little bird being chased by a carload of drunken cats in the Betty Boop short Morning, Noon and Night (1933). The Fleisch...

In Confidence , Walter Lantz’s Oswald the Rabbit injects barnyard animals with a syringe filled with the title subject to end the Depression...