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Photos and Videos

Animated scene from The Wild Robot showing a round-eyed robot with a fox perched on its shoulder in a forest clearing.
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Lobby card for Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs shows Snow White at a cottage window with woodland animals, surrounded by animated dwarfs and promotional text.
Mickey Mouse, wearing a blue sorcerer hat, rides an open magical book through swirling yellow and blue water in a scene from Fantasia's The Sorcerer's Apprentice segment.
Dumbo the elephant smiles while holding the tail of Timothy Q. Mouse, who stands facing him, in a nighttime scene from the animated film Dumbo.
George Pal in a suit stands beside a red-draped table, holding and arranging colorful stop-motion puppets from The Elves and the Shoemaker against a yellow background.
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Animated versions of Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison from Yellow Submarine stand in colorful uniforms with a crowd of characters behind them.
Woody and Buzz Lightyear appear to fly above a bedroom floor surrounded by other Toy Story characters, including Bo Peep, Mr. Potato Head, Rex, and green army men.
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A smiling dinosaur is hand-drawn against a white, vintage-looking background.
A black-and-white hand-drawn dinosaur bends down to drink from a lake.
Steamboat Willie, 1928
Black-and-white cartoon still from Out of the Inkwell: The Tantalizing Fly (1919) shows Koko the Clown smiling, wearing a hat and collar, drawn in early animation style.
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Key People

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Tex Avery
American director
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Joy Batchelor
British director and animator
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Max Fleischer
American animator
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Dave Fleischer
American animator
Dr. Seuss postage stamp
Dr. Seuss
American writer and illustrator
Creator of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck
Walt Disney
American film producer
Chuck Jones
Chuck Jones
American animator
Mary Blair
Mary Blair
American artist, art director, and designer
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Frank Tashlin
American cartoonist, writer, and director
Miyazaki Hayao
Miyazaki Hayao
Japanese director
Anno Hideaki
Anno Hideaki
Japanese animator and film director
Comic writer and Milestone Media cofounder
Dwayne McDuffie
American comic book writer and animated-film producer
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Otto Messmer
American animator
Builder of Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi
Iranian artist and writer
Švankmajer, Jan
Jan Švankmajer
Czech artist, puppeteer, animator, and filmmaker
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Trey Parker
American screenwriter, actor, and producer
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Terry Gilliam
American director
South Park
Matt Stone
American screenwriter, actor, and producer
American animator Mike Judge in 2018, wearing a black suit and shirt, poses against a dark background.
Mike Judge
American animator, writer, and director
Seth MacFarlane smiling at the camera, wearing a dark blazer over a gray shirt, with a blurred background.
Seth MacFarlane
American writer, animator, actor, and producer

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