Animated cartoons - Edwin George Lutz

BY
E. G. LUTZ

ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
1920

Published February, 1920

INTRODUCTION

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.

It is by means of sight, too, that the mind since the beginning of alphabets has been made familiar with the thoughts and the wisdom of the past and put into relationship with the learning and reasoning of the present. These two methods of imparting knowledge—delineatory and by inscribed symbols—have been concurrent throughout the ages.