One of the most famous and most disturbing Christmas cartoons ever made is Hugh Harman’s 1939 MGM film “Peace On Earth,” which was nominated for the Academy Award and is sometimes thought to ...

Jack Nicholson’s first job in Hollywood was as an office assistant in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s cartoon studio in 1955. Tom And Jerry ... In 1957 MGM shut down their cartoon department.

Suffice to say, this is long overdue. Avery is one of the titans of the animation art form, and the work he directed at MGM (released between 1942 and 1955) helped develop the concepts of visual ...