“Interesting to behold is the evolution of the tropical butterfly,” narrator Robert C. Bruce tells us in Aviation Vacation (1941). “Let’s ...

Being able to read off a piece of paper doesn’t mean you can be a voice actor or announcer. It’s true today and was true in 1946 when the s...

I used to boo at the screen as a kid watching the made-for-TV Magoos. They were little more than an endless string of myopia-mistake jokes w...

Ub Iwerks’ ComiColor shorts simply weren’t at par with the Walt Disney Silly Symphonies they were trying to imitate. They had Disney’s past ...

Radio comedians very quickly discovered the difference between their new gigs and their old ones in vaudeville. In the 1920s, they could tak...

1955 was a pretty good year for Paul Terry. He was still tied in with 20th Century Fox to put new cartoons in theatres. He was putting his ...

“George” the fox tricks Willoughby the dopey dog to jump off a cliff twice, then after rescuing him from a vicious bear, tricks him a third ...

Chinese acrobats see that Cubby Bear is looking for talent in Fresh Ham , a 1933 Van Beuren cartoon. You can see they’re speaking in what a...

There was a time Bob Hope was funny. And there was a time when he wasn’t. Hope’s rise to fame may have been as a result of the movie The Bi...

An 81-year-old man is trying to cheer us up as we attempt to deal, as best as we can, with a worldwide pandemic. He’s not just any 81-year-...