Pat Powers pushed the Ub Iwerks’ ComiColor cartoons by telling theatres they were a) in colour, and b) featured fairy tales beloved by all ...

Why do actors sign up for obvious turkeys? Let’s get an answer from Anita Gillette, who went from being a rising star on Broadway to Me an...

Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam. Their earliest cartoons were flat-out funny. If I had to pick a favourite, it might be Bugs Bunny Rides Again ,...

Don Patterson tries a silhouette scene in the Woody Woodpecker cartoon Socko in Morocco (1954). Our hero is a member of the Foreign Legion ...

The Jack Benny show was dismantled piece-by-piece as the 1950s wore on. Mary Livingstone somehow had a cold or something and then eventually...

Theatrical animation in 1961? It was sputtering and wheezing. Television animation in 1961? That was a different story. Remember this was b...

Bobe Cannon’s smear animation pops up in a number of spots in To Duck or Not to Duck , a 1943 Warner Bros. cartoon starring Daffy Duck. But ...

In one frame, here’s why I like the Van Beuren cartoons. In Love's Labor Won (1933), Cubby treats a wiener dog as a jumping rope and...

Not too many people can say their TV show was cancelled after one broadcast. Henry Morgan could. Morgan was a caustic wit who didn’t put up...

Kaye Ballard was loud. Kaye Ballard was animated. That helped make her hysterically funny. Ballard’s best known for a TV show that was ofte...