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twenty-four hand-drawn lies a second, agreed upon as the most honest fun ever invented
means A drawing made for comic or satirical effect, or a sequence of such drawings animated into a moving picture.
from From Italian 'cartone,' meaning a big sheet of heavy paper or pasteboard (from 'carta,' paper, the same root behind 'card' and 'chart'). Renaissance painters drew full-size preparatory sketches on these sheets before committing to fresco or canvas — so the original 'cartoon' was the careful plan beneath the masterpiece. The comic sense came later: in the 19th century, the satirical magazine Punch ran mock 'cartoons' lampooning grand official designs, and the joke meaning stuck so well it eventually swallowed the word whole.
- origin
- named after preparatory sketches for Renaissance frescoes
- frame count
- one minute can need over a thousand drawings
- banned physics
- only place gravity waits until you look down
- oscar history
- won its own Academy category since 1932
- voice trick
- one actor often plays an entire town
looney tunes — warner bros animated series featuring bugs bunny, daffy duck, since 1930
disney animation studio — walt disney's studio producing snow white (1937), cinderella (1950), and ongoing features
south park — comedy central series by trey parker and matt stone, running since 1997 in colorado
tom and jerry — mgm animated shorts of cat-mouse chase, created 1940 by hanna-barbera