Article: Quick flick through history of cartoons

WHEN I was a little girl, my father used to take me and my brother to a little cinema off London's Piccadilly Circus where they showed nothing but cartoons in a continuous loop. Getting lost in the worlds of Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny, Sylvester and Tweety-Pie for an hour or two was an occasional school holiday treat, usually followed by a slap-up tea in Lyon's Corner House.

That memory really flags up my age, of course, because nowadays Lyons is long gone and a range of excellent cartoons are on tap 24 hours a day on satellite TV. I could say that the magic isn't the same these days, but that wouldn't be true. Animation has moved on enormously, initially through Disney and since the 1990s ...

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