Frank Tashlin uses ghost multiples to enhance a fight scene involving Daffy Duck and a Nazi goat in Scrap Happy Daffy (1943). 15 examples...

Friz Freleng was not a disciple of the school of thought that animation must be over-the-top and outrageous. His unit at Schlesinger/Warne...

Can we all agree on this? Here is Exhibit A: the third scene from the 1951 Terrytoon The Cat's Tale . He animates the first scene of th...

Jack Benny died 50 years ago today. The intervening time has taken away many of his fans. Time also brings new fads and stars to popular cu...

Yowp here. I’m not a Christmas celebrant, but some of you reading are, either of the religious or secular versions, so I’m taking this t...

Of the dozens of cartoons made by the animation division of Van Beuren Productions from 1929 (when it changed from Fables Pictures following...

On the night before Christmas, Jerry attempts to evade Tom by disguising himself as a light on a tree. The mouse doesn’t fool the cat. Th...

Artie Auerbach died in 1957, but his catchphrase lives on. Auerbach was a newspaper photographer who met a man in Bronx. When Auerbach beca...

Some fine Christmas films have been made over the years. Perhaps you have some favourites. And then there’s A Visit to Santa . If it were ...