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Article: Quick flick through history of cartoons
- Article from:
- Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
- Article date:
- October 12, 2009
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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 ...