Animated cartoon
Animated cartoon noun - A film made by photographing a series of cartoon drawings to give the illusion of movement when projected in rapid sequence.
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Short and animated cartoon are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Short" instead a noun phrase "Animated cartoon".
Short
Short noun - The location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed.
Animated cartoon and short are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Animated cartoon" instead a noun "Short".
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She brings it home to her husband, with unexpected results.The Crunch Bird is only two minutes long, short even for an animated cartoon.
- Changing to Technicolor when the characters arrive in Oz was also done in a 1933 animated cartoon, although legal problems prevented the short film from being distributed with the Oz segments in Technicolor.
Source: Older Than They Think / Film -
Fantasmagorie (1908): A landmark Emile Cohl short, considered to be the first real hand-drawn animated cartoon, consisting of 700 drawings exposed on twos, lasting two minutes.
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