Animated cartoon
a motion picture consisting of a sequence of drawings, each so slightly different that when filmed and run through a projector the figures seem to move.
Historical Examples
Need the “movies” be the only ones to profit by the animated cartoon?
College Teaching Paul Klapper
Bart Simpson, the main character of the animated cartoon series of the same name, created by Matt Groening.
The Civilization of Illiteracy Mihai Nadin
One feature picture, one newsreel and one animated cartoon later, they walked past the plant again.
The Knack of Managing Lewis K. Urquhart and Herbert Watson
animated cartoon shorts have been better received by Western critics and audiences than have feature films.
Area Handbook for Bulgaria Eugene K. Keefe, Violeta D. Baluyut, William Giloane, Anne K. Long, James M. Moore, and Neda A. Walpole
Rowlandson’s animated cartoon successfully includes all the diversities of the situation.
Rowlandson the Caricaturist. First Volume Joseph Grego
noun
a film produced by photographing a series of gradually changing drawings, etc, which give the illusion of movement when the series is projected rapidly
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to give life to; make alive: God animated the dust. to make lively, vivacious, or vigorous; give zest or spirit to: Her presence animated the party. to fill with courage or boldness; encourage: to animate weary troops. to move or stir to action; motivate: He was animated by religious zeal. to give motion to: leaves […]
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full of life, action, or spirit; lively; vigorous: an animated debate on the death penalty. made or equipped to move or give the appearance of moving in an animallike fashion: animated puppets. containing representations of animals or mechanical objects that appear to move as real ones do: an animated window display. Contemporary Examples “I think […]
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a preliminary form of a television commercial consisting of a series of drawings with a voice-over, prepared chiefly for test-marketing. of or relating to animatics.