A roll of dollar bills and a price tag jump over each other in the John Sutherland cartoon Why Play Leap Frog? Both have little arms and ...

Symphony in Slang looks to have been an experiment by Tex Avery in several different areas—stylised backgrounds (except for the opening), l...

Jack Benny couldn’t make it happen again. He had success on his radio show when a pet polar bear became a part of it. Carmichael even playe...

“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...