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/-/[ALIf you watch*D1 TV cartoons, ]you may know*D2 Tom the cat=A--02 and Jerry the mouse.=A--02 /-/These characters may be*N1 your old friends. /-/You may also know*D3 Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Popeye the Sailor. /-/Almost everyone knows*D3 Casper the Ghost, Bugs Bunny, and the Flintstones, too. /-/These people and animals all seem*A1 very much alive. /-/Sometimes it's*A1 hard to believe=IDS081 [DOthat they're*N1 only drawings (on paper. )]/-/They're*N1 tiny "actors" (in a certain kind )(of movie )called=P--041 (an animated=P--01 cartoon. )/-/What makes*D1I these drawings come=IDO050 (to life? )/-/How can Bugs Bunny do*D1 all his tricks? /-/How can Popeye gobble*D1 his spinach, /C/or Casper fly*- so smoothly (through the air? )/-/Making=GNS021 cartoons isn't*A1 easy. /-/It takes*D3 a lot (of time, )a lot (of work, )and a lot (of people. )/-/Have you ever looked at*D1 a strip (of movie film? )/-/(On it, )you will see*D1 many tiny photos. /-/(In each photo, )the figures have moved*- a little bit.=U--03 /-/[ALWhen the film is run*P quickly (through a projector, )]these figures seem*A1 to "come=IAJ031 alive." /-/A cartoon works*- the same way.=U--03 /c/But (instead of photos, )drawings are used.*P /-/A great many (of them )are needed.*P /-/There are*N2 twenty-four little pictures, or "frames," (to every second )(of action. )/-/This means*N1 [PNthat, (in a two-minute Tom and Jerry scene, )(over 2,880 )separate drawings will be used!*P ]/-/How are so many drawings made?*P /c/And how are they all put*P together? /-/Let's*D1I see=IDO081 [DOhow the "magic" happens*- step=U--03 (by step. )]/-/Every cartoon begins*- (with an idea. )/-/Writers talk over*D1 this idea. !!!!!!!!