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| Ten things you didn't know about animation |
WALT Disney’s classic animated feature film Fantasia was released 75 years ago Friday on November 13, 1940.
1. The Oscar for Best Animated Feature was first awarded in 2001. The first winner was Shrek.
2. However Walt Disney was awarded an honorary Oscar in 1938 for Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs.
3. The first cartoon character to appear on a postage stamp was Bugs Bunny but the first to have a statue erected in his honour was Popeye.
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| In the film 101 Dalmatians, every Dalmatian puppy has precisely 32 spots |
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| The first cartoon character to appear on a postage stamp was Bugs Bunny |
4. In the film 101 Dalmatians, every Dalmatian puppy has precisely 32 spots.
5. In the film Monsters, Inc. the big blue monster Sully had 2,320,413 individually animated hairs.
6. When the first Toy Story film was being written, Buzz Lightyear’s original name was Lunar Larry.
7. When the singing duo Simon and Garfunkel first got together in the late 1950s they recorded under the name Tom & Jerry.
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| Tom and Jerry |
8. Tom [Good] and Jerry [Leadbetter] were also the names of the leading male characters in the very successful sitcom The Good Life.
9. Beauty And The Beast, Up and Toy Story 3 are the only animated films to have been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar.
10. Fantasia was the first commercial film to be released with stereophonic sound.
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