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Animated Cartoons reviews the development of motion pictures from the toy stage of the old thaumatrope and the beginnings of animated cartoons. It explains how simply the letters in a trick title can be made to dance about the screen and finally fall into proper place in the announcement; also the processes, apparatus, photography, and other technical matters - how movement in the drawing of the human figure is obtained - notes on animal locomotion - dissolving scenes - title balloons- how, by ingenious contrivances, the actual number of drawing required to produce a given effect of motion is lessened - the importance of animated diagram for educational purposes, etc., etc. Hardcover, 261 pages.
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