Tom escapes from a rival cat in Springtime For Thomas (1946). Their feet turn into wheels. You’d see the same kind of thing in Hanna-Barber...

What’s the big radio station in San Francisco these days? It’s not KDN, that’s for sure. But it was in March of 1922, just as KYJ and KOG w...

Parody and satire was originally Jack Benny’s stock-in-trade, long before he turned 39, owned a Maxwell, or turned to the audience and shout...

There are people who take it for granted that Saturday morning television was always a land of cartoons, and how dare it not be that way tod...

Was there a cartoon studio in the early ‘30s that didn’t make an Al Jolson reference? Even Disney did it at the end of Mickey Steps Out (19...

Genetic gene mixing is the main source of humour in Tex Avery’s Farm of Tomorrow which, unfortunately, is more miss than hit. “Picking up ...

Toward the end of November 1946, television was demonstrated for the first time in South Florida, thanks to a joint effort by WGBS radio i...

Ex Disney writers Dick Kinney and Milt Schaffer keep up a steady stream of gags in Red Riding Hoodlum , a 1957 cartoon starring Knothead an...

Chuck Jones and his animators could do “coy” really well by the 1950s. Here’s Mark Antony the dog trying to distract its owner by doing some...