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CARTOONS AND ANIMATED SHOWS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The world’s first cartoon was created after a cartoonist was inspired by something he saw at a museum. What was it?
A
A mummy exhibit
B
Dinosaur bones
C
A World War 1 airplane
D
A statue of a caveman
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Winsor McCay introduced his tame dinosaur, Gertie, to the world. McCay had created a 7-minute hand drawn cartoon of a sauropod dinosaur, based on the Brontosaurus skeleton that had been displayed in the American Museum of Natural History in New York since 1905.

Detailed explanation-2: -1908 – Émile Cohl created Fantasmagorie-the first animated film using hand-drawn animation, and film historians consider it to be the first animated cartoon.

Detailed explanation-3: -McCay originally made Gertie for his vaudeville act as a lightning-sketch artist. In the routine, McCay announced that he could make a drawing come to life; then a projected film depicting an animated dinosaur walking from the background into the foreground appeared.

Detailed explanation-4: -For reasons known only to McCay, he referred to his cartoon dinosaur as a Diplodocus, which is another sauropod genus entirely. McCay began production in earnest on Gertie during the summer of 1913. He hired a next-door neighbor, John A.

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