NEW YORK — “Guess you could say I hoard,” Tommy José Stathes said as he maneuvered around the shelves of his storage unit. Large enough to accommodate a minivan, it was stuffed with thousands of film ...

Festival Napa Valley, in collaboration with the Jarvis Conservatory, presents (not so) Silent Films and Animated Cartoon Classics. This family-friendly program brings silent films and early animated ...

Since it seems that the big action blockbusters are taking over the multiplex far in advance of their usual Summertime occupancy, what’s out there for lovers of silent-movie style slapstick and Golden ...

After Walt Disney’s friends betrayed him, he scrambled to stave off bankruptcy with a mouse cartoon that’s now in the public domain. In May 1928, at a movie theater on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, ...

It’s safe to say that, for the most part, modern cartoons are a far cry from the early days of animation. Animation’s roots are in the late 19 th century, with cartoons hitting the screen in the early ...