I’m not a Disney fan. The endless product hype, studio superiority complex and self-love, including the deification of Walt Disney and “prin...

Phil Harris started his career with Jack Benny as just another bandleader and ended it as a unique character that followed him the rest of h...

Cartoon studios were already cutting back operations in the late 1940s. MGM and Warner Bros. closed units, Screen Gems was shut down altoget...

A wild ending of fox vs. ballerina duck greets viewers of the Walter Lantz classical musical The Poet & Peasant (1946). The fox chokes...

Flip the Frog built a robot. Scrappy built a robot. Bosko built a robot. In all cases, they became uncontrollable monsters. Well, you wouldn...

It is impossible to dislike Edward Everett Horton. I am of the vintage where my exposure to him was as the wonderfully quirky narrator of t...

The sheer ineptness of the Van Beuren cartoons can provide you with unintentional laughs. Here are examples from the Cubby Bear opus Love...

Tex Avery got his gags across with economy. At MGM, he didn’t believe in excess dialogue and movement. Backgrounds were clean enough to se...

Jack Benny’s radio show started in New York and migrated to Los Angeles only because major film companies signed up comedians to star in mot...