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History of animation

Do you like watching cartoons? Probably you do! But how did they come to be? Who invented1 them?

This is actually a very tough question. The first cartoons were created long before the TV. For example, shadow play2 was a very popular form of entertainment3 in ancient China. Such shows looked almost like modern cartoons!