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.

An animated cartoon horse.

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.

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

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

It turned out well enough for Republic to dabble in animated cartoons ; Bob Clampett directed a single cartoon, It's a Grand Old Nag, featuring the equine character Charlie Horse.

The story was later developed into a 26 episode animated series of the same name, produced by Columbia TriStar Television and Dark Horse Entertainment, which aired from 1999 to 2001.

She had a small role in the 1998 film The Horse Whisperer and provided the speaking voice for Kayley in the animated film Quest for Camelot ( Andrea Corr performed the character's songs ), also released in 1998.

Reid also provides the voice for " Gunther " in the animated series Jane and the Dragon, Eddie in Marvin The Tap-Dancing Horse, Screwy in the Rolie Polie Olie film The Great Defender of Fun as well as various characters in Little Bear, Redwall, Mythic Warriors: Guardians of the Legend, Mozart's Magnificent Voyage, Tales from the Cryptkeeper, Timothy Goes to School, Babar: King of the Elephants and Bad Dog.

Thompson's character creations are not always highly imaginative: a medieval knight ( Sir Hokus of Pokes in The Royal Book of Oz ), a circus elephant ( Kabumpo in Kabumpo in Oz ), and an animated statue ( the Public Benfactor in The Giant Horse of Oz ) fall below the level of Baum's greatest grotesques.

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.

* Uffington White Horse ( animated versin ) features in the music video for " Sonnet " by The Verve

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The tale has been adapted to various media, most notably the opera Hänsel und Gretel ( opera ) | Hänsel und Gretel ( 1893 ) by Engelbert Humperdinck and a stop-motion animated feature film based on the opera.

Gandalf in Ralph Bakshi's animated version of The Lord of the Rings ( 1978 film ) | The Lord of the Rings.

For points on the hyperbola below the-axis, the area is considered negative ( see: Image: HyperbolicAnimation. gif | animated version with comparison with the trigonometric ( circular ) functions ).

Smaug as he appears in the The Hobbit ( 1977 film ) | 1977 animated version of The Hobbit.

Boromir in Ralph Bakshi's animated version of The Lord of the Rings ( 1978 film ) | The Lord of the Rings.

Sam in Ralph Bakshi's animated version of The Lord of the Rings ( 1978 film ) | The Lord of the Rings.

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Town Musicians of Bremen ( film ) | Town Musicians of Bremen, 1969 Soviet Union | Soviet animated film

The Mouth of Sauron as depicted in the 1980 animated film The Return of the King ( 1980 film ) | The Return of the King

Doctor Octopus in the Spider-Man ( 1994 TV series ) | Spider-Man animated series.

: Image: Killian memos MSWord animated. gif | The animated GIF image created by Charles Johnson and posted at LGF, comparing a 2004-era Microsoft Word document made with default settings to the document that CBS presented as a typewritten memo from 1973. LGF was one of four sources, along with the Power Line and Allahpundit blogs and the Free Republic discussion forum, who conducted the initial investigation of Dan Rather's assertions on 60 Minutes that the Killian documents were genuine.

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Blackhawk in the Justice League ( TV series ) | Justice League animated series.

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