The animals who frolic in the animated cartoon represent the most intelligent treatment of filmic motion of in America today
The animated cartoon stands among he chief American contributions to the art of the motion picture. When the sund dashes down from the sky and sets itself before a doorway; when a pack of black wolves rushes like lightning over hill and valley in the flash of an eye; when inanimate objects, animals, insects, and fauna turn terspichorian; or when the rim of a radio-speaker curls at will into a pair of hiuman lips, the analysis of movements needed to produce these effects represents some of the best thinking in film creation. As a result of their precise appreciation of movement and pattern plus the ability to visualize and execute the contours of their scenes and characters, the makers of animated cartoons enlarge cinema's prerogative in the fantastic treatment of time, form, space, gravity, or place.
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