Animation means making things which are lifeless come live and
62. ______ . 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 can
65. ______ . 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.