Top 10 facts about cartoons

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There is an asteroid named after Donald Duck

1. It showed a 15-minute animation, Pauvre Pierrot, made from 500 hand-painted images.

2. Flip books, showing animation by flipping through the pages of a book, were patented by Birmingham printer John Barnes Linnett in 1868.

3. Reynaud’s animated film was a development of his praxinoscope which used a strip of pictures spinning around the inside of a cylinder.

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Disney’s Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs was the first major full-length cartoon film

4. The first known use of the word cartoon for an animation was 100 years ago in October 1916.

5. The very first animated film was probably the now-lost El Apóstol, made in Argentina in 1917.

6. In 1937 Disney’s Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs was the first major full-length cartoon film.

7. The film won a special Academy Award for innovation, awarded to Disney by Shirley Temple.

8. Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature films were first given in 2001.

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There is also an asteroid Disneya named after Walt Disney

9. The first animated cartoon character to have a statue erected in his honour was Popeye in 1937. It is in Crystal City, the spinach capital of the USA.

10. Bambi, Thumper and Donald Duck have all had asteroids named after them. There is also an asteroid Disneya named after Walt Disney.