The maestro launches the symphony orchestra into “Largo al factotum” from Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” in Tex Avery’s Magical Maestro ...

The idea of a cartoon character drawing his own props goes back in the sound era as far as Van Beuren’s Pencil Mania (1932), and I’m sure K...

Perhaps there can be no greater tribute to the entertainment provided to the world by Jack Benny than the fact that more than eight months a...

“Let’s stop kicking short subjects around. Let’s be the smart showmen that we’re supposed to be, through years of solid experience, and put ...

Celebrity caricatures abound in The Merry Mutineers , a 1936 Color Rhapsody starring Scrappy. The Three Stooges. I don’t know who this...

How do you show facial expressions when you don’t have a face? That’s no problem in What Price Fleadom , where Tex Avery pulls out the old ...

NBC always gave the impression it was the first radio network, but that wasn’t the case. WEAF was purchased from A.T. and T. by NBC’s pare...