Gene Deitch wasn’t very happy with me. I dislike Deitch’s Tom and Jerry cartoons. The stories meander, the music sounds like it was made in...

Some Christmas specials are television evergreens— A Charlie Brown Christmas , Alastair Sim’s version of A Christmas Carol , that one about ...

Woody Woodpecker pretends to be Santa (70 days before Christmas, according to the calendar) in an attempt to chow down on the food at Wally ...

Here’s a cute gag from Disney’s Santa’s Workshop (1932), where gnomes stand at Ford-like assembly lines and do their little job to put toge...

There was a time when puppet shows were big on TV. They didn’t have to be sophisticated in the early days—not much programming was—they just...

There’s an episode of the Jack Benny radio show that opens with Rochester engaging in one of his duties—making breakfast for the boss. The p...

Walt Disney and his musical director Carl Stalling seem to have mastered sound on film pretty quickly. Steamboat Willie (1928) is still a f...

Love spot gag cartoons? Love stereotypes? Love bad puns? You’ll get your fill of all that in the Columbia/Screen Gems short Wacky Wigwams ...

Half-Pint Pygmy (1948) contains all kinds of impossible characters, such as a camel with a head at either end of its body, or a giraffe wit...