A cartoon is any of several forms of art, with varied meanings that evolved from one to another. Cartoon - Historical. In its original historical meaning, a cartoon (from the Italian cartone, meaning "big paper") is a full-size drawing made on paper as a study for a further artwork, such as a painting or tapestry. Cartoons were typically used in the production of frescoes, to accurately link the component parts of the composition when painted onto plaster over a series of days. Such cartoons often ha ...

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Originally, the Cartoon Cartoons logo was designed the Cartoon Cartoon bumper comprised of a blue background with squiggly animations in the front (sometimes haveing nothing to do with the cartoon it was bumpering) and actual logo breaking out looking like the Cartoon Network "checkerboard" logo. Around 1998, when The Powerpuff Girls premiered, a similar beginning was used, but a new red and yellow logo drawn on to the bumper background and a character from the show would come ...

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Cartoon physics is a joking reference to the fact that animation allows regular laws of physics to be ignored in humorous ways. For example, when a cartoon character runs off a cliff, gravity has no effect until the character notices. The phrase also reflects the fact that many of the most famous American animated cartoons, particularly those from the Warner Brothers and MGM studios, unconsciously developed a relatively consistent set of such "laws" ...

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Aladdin is the title of multiple cartoons: Aladdin is a 1992 animated feature released by Walt Disney Pictures. Aladdin is a television series based on the 1992 movie; it originally aired from 1993 to 1995. Other related archivesAladdin

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Cartoon Network is a cable television channel created by Turner Broadcasting and dedicated to showing animated programming. It premiered on October 1, 1992 in the United States, and September 17, 1993 in the United Kingdom. Cartoon Network - History. Cartoon Network - USA. By the end of the 1980s, Ted Turner's cable TV conglomerate had acquired the MGM film library (which included the older catalog of Warner Bros. cartoons), and its cable channel Turner Network Television had ga ...

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An animated cartoon is a moving picture generated by photographing drawings frame-by-frame, as opposed to a normal movie, which is produced by shooting 24 frames a second of actual moving persons or objects. Animated cartoon - History. The first examples of trying to capture motion into a drawing can already be found in paleolithic cave paintings, where animals are depicted with multiple legs in superimposed positions, clearly attempting depicting a sense of motion. The phenakistoscope, zoetrope and ...

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Below are descriptions of some, but not all of Jonti Picking's cartoons on weebls-stuff.com. This does not include Weebl and Bob. Weebl's cartoons - Magical Trevor. The first cartoon begins with a little man wearing a white robe that says "TREV" and a pointed white hat with a star hanging from the tip. His robe seems overly loose as it hangs from his extremities. He has an orange beard styled in such a way that several sections stick out and curl inward. This is apparently Magical Trevor (he has some genuine magic ...

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The Cartoon Art Museum (CAM) is an art museum in San Francisco, California, specializing in the art of comics and cartoons. As of 2005, it is the only museum in the United States dedicated to the preservation and exhibition of cartoon art, and holds approximately six thousand pieces—including original animation cels, comic book pages, and early newspaper comic strips—in its permanent collection. The museum was organized in 1984 by comic art enthusiasts. Its first incarnation had no fixed location, instead organizing ...

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Animated cartoon - Funny animals. The first animated cartoons often depicted funny animals in various adventures. This was the mainstream genre from the early 1900s until the 1940s, and the backbone of Disney's series of cartoons. Animated cartoon - Zany humor. Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck of Warner Brothers, and the various films of Tex Avery at MGM introduced this popular form of animated cartoons. It usually involved acts such as being characters being crushed by massive boulders ...

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Cartoon Network - USA. By the end of the 1980s, Ted Turner's cable TV conglomerate had acquired the MGM film library (which included the older catalog of Warner Bros. cartoons), and its cable channel Turner Network Television had gained an audience with its film library. In 1991, they purchased animation studio Hanna-Barbera Productions and acquired its large library. The Cartoon Network channel was created as an outlet for Turner's considerable library of animation, and the initial programming on the channel consisted exclusively of re-runs of classic Warner Bros. and MGM cartoons, with many Hann ...

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The first animated cartoons often depicted funny animals in various adventures. This was the mainstream genre from the early 1900s until the 1940s, and the backbone of Disney's series of cartoons. Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck of Warner Brothers, and the various films of Tex Avery at MGM introduced this popular form of animated cartoons. It usually involved acts such as being characters being crushed by massive boulders or going over the edge of a cliff but floating in mid air for a few seconds. The Road Runner cartoon ...

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The idea that cartoons behave differently (but not always randomly) than the real world is virtually as old as animation. Walt Disney, for example, spoke of the plausible impossible, deliberately mispronouncing the second word so it rhymed with the first. Specific reference to cartoon physics extends back at least to June of 1980, when an article "O'Donnell's Laws of Cartoon Motion" appeared in Esquire magazine. A version printed in 1994 by the IEEE in a journal for engineers helped spread the word among the technical crowd, which has expanded and refined the idea. Doz ...

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The advent of film technology opened opportunities to develop the art of animation. The basic animation process is described in the article Animation , and the classic, hand-drawn technology in Traditional animation . At first, animated cartoons were black-and-white and silent. Felix the Cat is a notable example. The first cartoon with synchronized sound is often identified as Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie, starring Mickey Mouse in 1927, but Max Fleischer's 1926 My Old Kentucky Home is less popularl ...

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The term "illustrated radio" became a popular moniker for the ubiquitous Saturday morning cartoon (animated TV programs for children aired during daytime hours). The animation in such shows is often very simple, due to economic constraints. However, some studios endeavour to produce high-quality programming in spite of limited budgets and tight schedules. Hanna-Barbera's 1960s show, The Flintstones was one of the first truly successful primetime series and has been on the air ever since. Today, ...

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The first examples of trying to capture motion into a drawing can already be found in paleolithic cave paintings, where animals are depicted with multiple legs in superimposed positions, clearly attempting depicting a sense of motion. The phenakistoscope, zoetrope and praxinoscope, as well as the common flip book, were early animation devices to produce movement in drawings using technological means, but animation did not really develop much further until the advent of motion picture film. The first animated carto ...

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As all of these cartoons are now in the public domain, free downloadable links from the Internet Archive have been provided where available. In addition, these films are widely available on VHS and DVD, usually in budget-line releases of varying quality. Superman 1940s cartoons - Fleischer Studios. Superman (a.k.a. The Mad Scientist) [1] The Mechanical Monsters [2] Billion Dollar Limited [3] The Arctic Giant [4]< ...

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In modern print media, a cartoon is an illustration, usually humorous in intent. This usage dates from 1843 when Punch magazine applied the term to satirical drawings in its pages, particularly sketches by John Leech. The first of these parodied the preparatory cartoons for grand historical frescoes in the then-new Palace of Westminster. The original title for these drawings was Mr Punch's pencillings and the new title "cartoon" was intended to be ironic, a reference to the self-aggrandisin ...

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The advent of film technology opened opportunities to develop the art of animation. The basic animation process is described in the article Animation , and the classic, hand-drawn technology in Traditional animation . At first, animated cartoons were black-and-white and silent. Felix the Cat is a notable example. The first cartoon with synchronized sound is often identified as Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie, starring Mickey Mouse in 1927, but Max Fleischer's 1926 My Old Kentucky Home is less popularl ...

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The first examples of trying to capture motion into a drawing can already be found in paleolithic cave paintings, where animals are depicted with multiple legs in superimposed positions, clearly attempting depicting a sense of motion. The phenakistoscope, zoetrope and praxinoscope, as well as the common flip book, were early animation devices to produce movement in drawings using technological means, but animation did not really develop much further until the advent of motion picture film. The first animated cartoon (in the traditional sense, i.e. on film) was "Fantasmago ...

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