Cartoon historian David Gerstein has been rummaging through the Library of Congress and has come up with the dialogue cutting continuities for several MGM cartoons and has noticed discrepancies ...
William Danby Hanna and Joseph Roland Barbera joined the MGM cartoon unit in 1937. Their partnership began in 1939 on “Puss Gets the Boot,” the cartoon that propelled Tom the cat and Jerry the mouse ...
You can see the footage of the old Oscars ceremony online. The master of ceremonies beckons glamorous star Jeanne Crain to the microphone to present the 1949 short film award. When she announces the ...
Do not binge-watch Tex Avery Screwball Classics, Volume 1, strongly recommends cartoon historian Jerry Beck, who co-curated the first-ever Blu-ray collection of Avery’s MGM cartoons. “It’s too much ...
Ed Benedict, 94, an animator who designed many famous cartoon characters including Fred Flintstone, Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound, died Monday, his friend David Scheve said. Benedict died at home in ...