Animation is a type of an optical illusion.

It involves the appearances of

motion caused by displaying still images one after another. Animation is
considered to be a form of art. It is used for both entertainment and
educational purposes. The first animated cartoon made its debut in the
early part of the 20th century and it took 24 different drawings per second.
In those times, all the frames were hand drawn. Since making an
animation is both costly and time-consuming, only professional studios
often produce them.

A man named Winsor McCay created one of the first lengthy cartoons. He
experimented with a cartoon called "Gertie the Dinosaur." In this cartoon he and
his neighbor had to draw all the pictures themselves. Gertie the dinosaur came
about 80 years before the movie Jurassic park. After this came the animations
FELIX THE CAT, MII9CKEY MOUSE and LOONEY TOONS. Nevertheless, the

The creation of Mickey Mouse:

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The birth of Mickey Mouse occurred on a crosscountry train ride (a four day journey) in early
1928. Walt was returning from a business
meeting along with his wife. At the age of 26,
and with an active cartoon studio in Hollywood,
Walt had set out to arrange for a new contract
for his creation, Oswald the Rabbit, but the
backers turned him down. As they owned the
copyright, they took control, leaving Walt with
nothing. To prepare to announce the
unpleasant news to workers back home, Walt
gave birth to a sympathetic mouse that he first
named, "Mortimer". By the end of the ride, Lillian
Disney suggested to her husband that the first
name was too stuffy. He was renamed, "Mickey."
Walt and his head animator, Ub Iwerks, soon
completed their first Mickey Mouse cartoon,
"Plane Crazy."

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FUNNY FACES is a silent
cartoon by J. Stuart Blackton
in the year 1906. It features a
cartoonist drawing faces on a
chalkboard, and the faces
coming to life. It is generally
regarded as the first
animated film. It features
movements as where a dog
jumps through a hoop, a
scene which actually uses
cutout animation made to
look like chalk outlines. The
film moves at 20 frames per
second.