Is there a Columbia cartoon, outside of The Little Match Girl , that isn’t bizarre? Take for example the 1934 short Scrappy’s Toy Shop . Th...

Between the time she was Dennis Day’s mother and Fred Flintstone’s mother-in-law, Verna Felton was the comedy highlight of a TV show starrin...

Daws Butler played a seemingly uncountable number of cartoon characters in his career. He was a star at Hanna-Barbera in its early years. MG...

Shamus Culhane pulls off some of his wild camera shakes in Chew-Chew Baby , where Woody Woodpecker goes in drag to humiliate Wally Walrus. ...

If it’s funny once, three times will be three times as funny. Well, no, 1930s cartoon writers, it doesn’t work that way. Especially if it’s...

“This car is equipped with the latest sure-stop, toe-touch hydraulic brakes,” says narrator Gil Warren in Car of Tomorrow . “Just barely tou...

How strong were the gags in a Mickey Mouse cartoon? The earliest Mickeys, I like. Once the ‘30s started rolling along, things get really la...

Something didn’t seem right. It was 1986. La Cage aux Folles was in performance at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver and the ads pr...

You’ve likely read that Jack Benny made his radio debut on an Ed Sullivan radio show in 1932. Jack made the claim himself. It’s wrong. He ma...