The cinema by John Escott...

Animation...

Most of famous cartoon characters, like Mickey Mouse, Tom and Jerry, Popeye, Bugs Bunny...began their lives as a simple pictures on paper.

First of all cartoon characters are painted on sheets of clear film, called "cels". Then they were fotografed. Each cel has to have one picture, and each picture has to be a little different, to make characters appear move when they'll be projected at twenty-four pictures every second.

The characters have to lookand sound the same in every film.

 The most famous producer of animated films was Walt Disney. He introduced Mickey Mouse to audience in 1928 in black-and-white cartoon. He also produced the first colour cartoon, Flowers and trees, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. More followed: Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo, Bambi, Cinderella, The sleeping Beauty, 101 Dalmatians, The Jungle Book, Aladdin, The lion king, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame...And children of nowadays have seen all of them...