entertainment

from the makers of “family guy”: “cavalcade of cartoon comedy” die, sweet roadrunner, die
director: greg colton
creator: seth macfarlane
story: seth macfarlane
teleplay: seth macfarlane and andrew goldberg

Stop motion (also known as stop action) is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence. Clay figures are often used in stop motion for their ease of repositioning. Motion animation using clay is called clay animation or clay-mation. [wikipedia]

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how the english language was developed.

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Originally on the British Isles there were a group of Celtic tribes that lived throughout Britain. They spoke Celtic languages, which live on as Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, and Manx. These Celtic-speaking peoples were the original inhabitants of Britain, but then come the English.
The Anglo-Saxon invasion wasn’t so much an “invasion”, as a mass migration over hundreds of years.

An animated short based on a “Flashpoints” interview with Dennis Bernstein & Dave Lindorff.

directed & animated by: Chris Fontaine

Based on the anti-Nazi propaganda book by Gregor Ziemer and directed by Clyde Geronimi, this cartoon portrays the life of one of the Hitler Youth.