Eve Arden once remarked how teachers loved her character on Our Miss Brooks . They liked how Connie Brooks was smart, witty, independent and...

Rubber Hose Disney is Fun Disney. There’s no real plot to The Jazz Fool . But it’s 1929. Music, co-ordinated sound effects and a topper gag...

At Warner Bros., Tex Avery used a gag involving a split screen which turns out not to be so split. The version in Thugs With Dirty Mugs (1...

Big-time network radio had been around more than 20 years as the 1950s began and some people couldn’t comprehend it changing. But change it...

“If you think Mickey Mouse, Aesop’s Fables or Krazy Kat funny wait until you've seen Bosco and His Sweetie in their first of ‘Looney Tun...

Dr. Horace N. Buggy isn’t very happy with Woody Woodpecker vanishing in his office only to come knocking at the door (How did it happen? Bec...

It’s 1939. You’re a cartoon producer who isn’t making a feature and isn’t named Walt Disney. How do you get publicity? You wave the flag. ...

The Students Stock Company of the Wallis School of Dramatic Art in Los Angeles celebrated the school’s 14th anniversary in September 1922 by...

Early ‘30s cartoons were sure musical. Almost everything became musical. In the Fleischer studio’s Hot Dog (1930), Bimbo whips out a banjo...

Screwy Squirrel uses tacks to slow down a truant officer dog chasing after him. The dog suffers a blow-out. Fortunately, he’s prepared for j...