A colour swirl indicates speed in The Unbearable Bear , a 1943 cartoon from the Chuck Jones unit at Warners, starring the blabbermouth versi...

The name Suspense conjures up images of radio of the 1940s. But there’s one Suspense broadcast of September 1949 that conjures up images o...

Blowing the pigs’ brick house down doesn’t work, as we all know from fairy tales, but when pups instead of pigs are involved, other methods ...

They sure loved those circular stone stairways in Van Beuren cartoons. The Little King had one. Cubby Bear and Tom and Jerry cartoons had th...

The question for Jack Benny in the late 1940s was—when are you getting into television? More and more stations were signing on and, cruciall...

In an increasingly corporate, HR-department world, maybe the practical joke has become a thing of a past. It was common at animation studios...

A little combo plays a number while a bird wearing a derby makes a home out of drumsticks in The Fowl Ball , a 1930 Walter Lantz cartoon. O...

Freeze-frame some animation and what looks like flowing movement under director Bob Clampett reveals a raft of quirky poses. Here are som...

J. Edward McKinley popped up everywhere on 1960s comedy shows as kind of an impatient businessman. It seems that’s how he began his acting c...

Artwork, sound (music and voice) and camera movement aren’t the only things that play a role in animation. So does lighting. Here’s a good ...