Julius the cat uses a turtle with an extended neck to steal a pie from a third storey window sill in Alice The Jailbird (Disney, 1925). ...

Eddie Cantor was hugely popular for several decades, but always struck me as someone who didn’t necessarily want to entertain you. He wanted...

After 28 years on the screen, Jerry Mouse suddenly develops, in the mind of Chuck Jones, a malicious sleepwalking habit in Jerry, Jerry, Qui...

Pan shot from Home Front , a 1944 Snafu cartoon directed by Frank Tashlin. The camera stops at the record player for a few song lyrics, ...

When Bill Morrow and Ed Beloin left the Jack Benny show during the war, they were replaced with five different writers (which dropped to fou...

Leon Schlesinger had big plans for a new cartoon series. It would feature paintings by a well-known and respected artist and uber-cute littl...

One of the good things to come out of restoration of cartoons from B-list studios like Van Beuren and Iwerks is you can get a better look at...

Tex Avery’s travelogue spoofs at Warner Bros. are hit-and-miss, sometimes in the very cartoon. In Land of the Midnight Fun (1939), studio p...