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Do you like watching cartoons? Probably you do! But how did they come to be? Who invented them?
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This is actually a very tough question. The first cartoons were created long before the TV.
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For example, shadow play was a very popular form of entertainment in ancient China. Such shows looked almost like modern cartoons!
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A toy called a flip book was made in the late 19th century. It was a small soft book with pictures.
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Each picture was drawn in a slightly different5 way. When you bend this book and release the pages one by one, the images start to move.
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Strictly speaking, they don’t, but our eyes see it like that anyway. The first real cartoons were made using this trick, too!
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In 1895 brothers Louis and Auguste Lumière created a cinematograph.
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It was a camera and a film projector in one device. Using this device, many aspiring film directors started to create their own cartoons.
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This developed into a full industry by 1910. Many cartoons of that era are forgotten now, but some are still with us.
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For example, Felix the Cat was created by Otto Messmer in 1919, and he’s still with us, more than a hundred years later.
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Currently the rights to the character are held by DreamWorks Animation.
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One of the pioneers in the industry was famous Walt Disney.
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He was not afraid to experiment to make a cartoon, and his Snow White film was among the firsts to use a multiplane camera.
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With its help the characters were able to move around the objects, creating an illusion of a 3D world.
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Today most of the cartoons are made with computer animation. The last traditional Disney cartoon to date was Winnie the Pooh (2011).
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