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To produce action of inanimate objects, such as a shoe 

 lacing itself, a series of pictures is taken of the object in 

 different positions and then these are thrown on the screen 

 rapidly. 



The apparent walking of a person up the side of the house 

 is produced by taking pictures with a camera which is placed 

 above the stage. 



Animated cartoons. One of the more recent develop- 

 ments of the movies that has now become well established 



Courtesy of Everybody's Magazine. 



FIG. 181. Drawings for animated cartoons. These are the drawings required to 

 show the whole process of withdrawing Mutt's hand and closing his eye. 



is the animated cartoon. There is almost no limit to the 

 ideas that may be worked out in this way. These cartoons 

 are made by taking photographs of a series of drawings. 

 One drawing is placed before a camera and a picture taken, 

 than another drawing and another picture taken, and so on 



