One of the main characters of the 1969-1971 animated cartoon The Ant and the Aardvark is a blue aardvark voiced by John Byner, doing an impersonation of Jackie Mason.

* 1938 – The animated cartoon short Porky's Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit ( a prototype of Bugs Bunny ).

* 1908 – Fantasmagorie, the first animated cartoon, created by Émile Cohl, is shown in Paris, France.

Two different animated cartoon series also starred ' Charlie ' a tramp character, the first a series of nine shorts from 1916 by Movca Film Service.

An animated cartoon horse, drawn by rotoscoping from Eadweard Muybridge's 19th-century photos.

Because of the stylistic similarities between comic strips and early animated movies, " cartoon " came to refer to animation, and the word " cartoon " is currently used to refer to both animated cartoons and gag cartoons.

At the end of the 1980s, the word " cartoon " was shortened, and the word " toon " came into usage with the live action / animated feature Who Framed Roger Rabbit ( 1988 ), followed two years later by the TV series Tiny Toon Adventures ( 1990 ).

Charles Martin " Chuck " Jones ( September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002 ) was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio.

Jones, whose work had been nominated eight times over his career for an Oscar ( winning thrice: For Scent-imental Reasons, So Much for So Little, and The Dot and the Line ), received an Honorary Academy Award in 1996 by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, for " the creation of classic cartoons and cartoon characters whose animated lives have brought joy to our real ones for more than half a century.

In the United States the response was from the famous strip cartoon artist Winsor McCay, who drew much more realistic animated figures going through smoother, more naturalistic motion in a series of films starting with the film Little Nemo, made for Vitagraph in 1911.

Walt Disney, who had previously been in the short cartoon business, stepped into feature films with the first English-speaking animated feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ; released by RKO Pictures in 1937.

The name " frame problem " derives from a common technique used by animated cartoon makers called framing where the currently moving parts of the cartoon are superimposed on the " frame ," which depicts the background of the scene, which does not change.

After the skit, five animated cartoon animals ( a duck, a sheep, a pig, a chicken and a goat ) would appear onscreen booing, as well.

Lewis and his popular movie characters were animated in the Filmation cartoon series, Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down.

* 1928 – Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse.

* 1958 – The Smurfs, a fictional race of blue dwarves, later popularized in a Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon series, appear for the first time in the story La flute à six schtroumpfs, a Johan and Peewit adventure by Peyo which is serialized in the weekly comics magazine Spirou.

This animated cartoon of a Horse gait | galloping horse is displayed at 12 drawings per second, and the fast motion is on the edge of being objectionably jerky.

* Przygody kota Filemona Filemon, a cat in Polish animated cartoon.

This enabled merchandising such as toy lines, animated cartoon adaptations, and other licensing.

A horse animated by rotoscoping from Eadweard Muybridge's 19th century photos.

Galloping horse, animated in 2006, using photos by Eadweard Muybridge.

* Passage ( dressage ) ( pronounced to rhyme with " massage "), a form of trained slow, animated trot performed by a horse

Through the years, the FAO Schwarz logo has had versions that included a teddy bear, ABC blocks, a toy soldier, rocking horse and animated clock tower.

He provided the voices of Philip Masterson-Bowie ( a horse ) and Mark Andrews ( a sparrow ) for animated comedy series I Am Not an Animal.

A animated cartoon | cartoon horse animated by rotoscoping from Eadweard Muybridge's 19th-century photos.

A horse animated by rotoscoping from Eadweard Muybridge's 19th century photos.

The song occurs in the chalk drawing outing animated sequence, just after Mary Poppins wins a horse race.

* Catherine, Link's horse as Epona in the video games but earlier in the animated series she was called Catherine

Known for his distinctively deep and commanding voice, he also did extensive voice work with the animated film Heavy Metal and on animated series such as The Marvel Super Heroes show in the 1960s, where he played Iron Man, the Sub-Mariner, and Major Glenn Talbot of The Incredible Hulk, to Batman: The Animated Series, where he played Rupert Thorne, and as General Thunderbolt Ross in UPN's The Incredible Hulk, Wildfire where he played a horse, as well as Doctor Strange in an episode of the Fox Network's Spider-Man animated series in the 1990s.

The artist's model for the title horse of the animated film Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron was a Kiger Mustang named Donner, also known as " Spirit ", who lives at the Return to Freedom American Wild Horse Sanctuary.

The most positive element to emerge from the Oslo meeting of North Atlantic Treaty Organization Foreign Ministers has been the freer, franker, and wider discussions, animated by much better mutual understanding than in past meetings.

Most children love the animated puppet faces and their flexible bodies, and they prefer to see them as though the puppets were in action, rather than put away in boxes.

The mural around the wall depicted early settlers in covered wagons, who appeared much more animated than the gamblers.

The villain ( Cyril Sneer ) and one of the heroes ( Cedric Sneer ) of the 1980s animated television series The Raccoons were aardvarks.

The main character of Arthur, an animated television series for children produced by WGBH, shown in more than 180 countries, is an aardvark.

He is animated by Milt Kahl.

* Alfred J. Kwak, a Dutch animated television series

In 1973, a short animated film called Perseus was made in the Soviet Union.

The success of the series has led to the adaptation of several books into 14 films: ten animated, and four with live actors.

* A. D. ( film ), a 2010 animated zombie horror film

Their producer was Franco Godi, who also produced the music for the Signor Rossi animated series.

* Lady Amalthea, a character in the fantasy novel and animated movie The Last Unicorn.

In the FX animated series Archer, the titular protagonist's mother mourns the death of her Afghan Hound " Duchess " as a recurring gag throughout the show.

Over the years, Li ' l Abner has been adapted to radio, animated cartoons, stage production, motion pictures and television.

The Shmoos would later have their own animated TV series.

His voice acting credits include Marlin the clownfish in Finding Nemo, and recurring guest voices for the animated television series The Simpsons, including Russ Cargill in The Simpsons Movie.

Other movies have also used the term Bronx for comic effect, such as " Bronx ", the character on the Disney animated series Gargoyles.

Beavis and Butt-head is an American animated television series created and designed by Mike Judge.

In 1996, the series was adapted into the animated feature film Beavis and Butt-head Do America.

His voice and personality are similar to and may serve as a basis of sort for the character of Gerald Goode in Judge's latest animated series The Goode Family.

One of the most well-known aspects of the series was the inclusion of music videos, which occurred between animated segments.

Batman has also starred in multiple video games, most of which were adaptations of the various cinematic or animated incarnations of the character.