The grainy, black-and-white cartoon character cavorted around on the screen on Ron Kurer's computer monitor. It's part of the process of converting the cartoon from 16mm film to digital. "This is an ...

Cartoons from the first half of the 20th century are creepy for a lot of reasons. For one, many of the lead animators in the early days of film had dark senses of humor. In addition, while cartoons ...