Animation means making things which are lifeless come live and62. ______ .
move. Since earliest times, people have always been fascinated by
movement. And not until this century have we managed to capture 63. ______ .
movement, to record it, and in the case of animation, to reinterpret it 64. ______ .
and recreate it. To do all this, we use a movie camera and a projector. In
the world of cartoon animation, everything is impossible. You can65. ______ .
make the characters you create do exactly that you want them to do. 66. ______ .
A famous early cartoon character was Felix the Cat, created Pat 67. ______ .
Sullivan in America in the early nineteen twenties. Felix was a
marvelous cat. He could do all sorts of things no natural cat can do as 68. ______ .
taking off his tail, using it as a handle and then putting it back. The
famous Walt Disney cartoon characteristics came to life after 1928. 69. ______ .
Popeye the Sailorman and his girl friend Olive Oyl were born at the
Max Fleischer studios in 1933. But to be an animator, you don’t have
to be a professional. It is possible for anyone to make a simple
animated film with using a camera at all. All that you have to do is to 70. ______ .
draw directly on to blank film and then running the film through a 71. ______ .
projector.
