“Paul Terry took an active part in the story work not only by feeding his own gags to the stories but by a sort of assault-tactic on the sto...

In the 1930 Disney cartoon Wild Waves , there's an awful lot of repetitious action. We see four penguins dancing on a beach. Then they g...

Mitzi Gaynor was a dynamo. She appeared in movies and in stage shows, and was continually lauded for her ceaseless energy. In 1950, produc...

Sir Wally Walrus conducts an orchestra of animals in The Overture to William Tell , a 1947 Musical Miniature directed by Dick Lundy for Walt...

There’s always been a subset of television programming, dating back to the network radio days, of shows that deliberately embarrass and laug...

It would appear Friz Freleng and the writing staff at the Leon Schlesinger studio thought taxi drivers were maniacs on the road. Can there ...

You’ll see several ice cream truck gags (“Good Rumor” trucks, mainly) in Tex Avery cartoons, but he pulls an ice truck gag in One Cab’s Fami...

When Rochester answered the phone and described Jack Benny as “star of stage, screen and radio,” it was not like Benny being cheap or drivin...

There was a time when animated cartoons were promoted with full-page ads in the trade newspapers. It’s been a while since we posted some, so...