At the age of 6, she was known as “The Wild Rose of KHJ.” A few decades later, you could hear her on the Jack Benny radio show, playing per...

The Fleischer studio’s love of makeshift gadgets manifested itself yet again in the Betty Boop cartoon Zula Hula where Betty and Grampy cra...

Bugs Bunny points out where he is hiding to the big bad wolf in Little Red Riding Rabbit . After several misfires, it turns out Bugs actuall...

Who can make a cartoon from a C-list studio interesting? Mark Kausler, that’s who. An example is to the right: Van Beuren’s Rough on Rats ; ...

What was it like going to a Jack Benny Jell-O broadcast? The answer is in this newspaper story from May 10, 1937. The reporter managed to ...

He was a disc jockey who admitted he accepted payola. He was a promotions man for an amusement park that was reorganising after bankruptcy. ...

Once upon a time, there was no internet. If you wanted to see cartoons, you watched them on TV or (if you were lucky) bought some on 16 mill...

Steamboat Willie started a simple formula in sound cartoons—action on the screen synchronised to music or sound effects. That was in 1928....

Poor Hay-De La Mare! The screen star is trapped in an accidental fire on the set of her film. Who will save her? Why, it’s none other tha...

It’s the day of the Chili Bowl, and the field goal kickers are warming up. They’re also performing a satisfied little dance. This is from...