Animated cartoons

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
Some minor changes to the text are noted at the end of the book.
ILLUSTRATING THE METHOD OF MAKING ANIMATED CARTOONS BY CUT-OUTS.
Above : Background scene and the separate items.
Below : Completed scene showing one phase of the performance of the little cardboard actors and stage property.
ANIMATED CARTOONS HOW THEY ARE MADE THEIR ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT
BY E. G. LUTZ
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS 1920
Copyright, 1920, by CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
Published February, 1920
We learn through the functioning of our senses; sight the most precious shows us the appearance of the exterior world. Before the dawn of pictorial presentation, man was visually cognizant only of his immediate or present surroundings. On the development of realistic picturing it was possible, more or less truthfully, to become acquainted with the aspect of things not proximately perceivable. The cogency of the perceptive impression was dependent upon the graphic faithfulness of the agency—a pictorial work—that gave the visual representation of the distant thing.