There’s glorious fun in chickens singing, dancing and piano-playing the old song “Ida.” That’s how the Van Beuren cartoon Panicky Pup (1933...

One of the busiest industrial studios in the 1940s and ’50s gets no notice from animation fans today. It was Raphael G. Wolff studio at 1714...

Jack Benny accomplished many things in the entertainment world, but he remarked on several occasions his most proud moment (charity concerts...

Servicemen and women hunkered down in the Gilbert and Mariana Islands during World War Two enjoyed two things when they got a chance to rela...

The special effects in the performance of the Overture to William Tell (from the Walter Lantz cartoon of the same name) are a little too re...

Walt Disney and dwarves met up in the early days of sound cartoons in The Merry Dwarfs (1929). These ones didn’t do much more than have fun...

The Allen’s Alley segment is the best-remembered portion of the Fred Allen radio show, but it existed for only a comparatively short period ...

Tom gets the fiendish idea of faking he has a cold so he won’t be tossed out into the rainy night in Polka Dot Puss (1949). His phoney s...

One of the most famous pieces of animation to end a Warner Bros. cartoon must be in Porky's Duck Hunt , where Daffy Duck twirls, slides,...

KTTV signed on in Los Angeles in 1949 and Jack Benny made his TV debut that evening. He didn’t have his own television show on CBS for anoth...