The U.S. government spent money to get you to give them your money to invest. There are film examples galore where the government urges Ame...

Larry Wolters, I know your pain. Wolters was, for a number of years, the radio, then television, critic of the Chicago Tribune . Critics, b...

What?! It’s been more than a year since a post about June Foray? Well, we’ll fix that. I love June’s voices in Jay Ward’s “Fractured Fairy ...

Some of the Walter Lantz cartoons in the 1940s featured bits of perspective animation, with a character or object moving to and from the cam...

“Think fast rabbit,” Bugs Bunny says to himself in Water, Water Every Hare (1952). After an 11-frame hold, he does. Cut to Bugs already mov...

For every successful radio sitcom like Burns and Allen or Blondie or Our Miss Brooks , there’s an equally unsuccessful one, perhaps no one...

John Foster and Harry Bailey go for pathos in a scene from Cinderella Blues (1931). After dropping and breaking the family dishes, Cindere...

After some night-time shots of a junkyard, there’s a fade to inside a shack that is the home of John Pettibone, the alias given to Droopy in...

There was plenty of talk in the 1970s about the saving the environment and, by extension, saving the Earth. From it was born the environment...

Comedians and critics both praised Jack Benny for his timing. Some pointed to the way he slowly unfolded a story, ignoring any interruptions...