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Volotov provides the best of new animation coupled with an in-depth, detailed look at your favorite cartoon classics. See state of the art digital animation or stroll through a bit of Cartoon Animation History.

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Popeye The Sailor - Ancient Fistory

Popeye The Sailor - Ancient Fistory
1952 - 6 mins

A Cinderella like tale in which Olive is the princess and Popeye is the prince. Bluto is the shop owner brute who bullies Olive, only to get taught a lesson by a buff, spinach eating Prince Popeye. Popeye was created by Elzie Segar, a cartoonist who wrote the strip Thimble Theatre in the late teens and early twenties. »

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The Goose that laid the Golden Egg

The Goose that laid the Golden Egg
1936 - 7 mins

This 1936 Felix the Cat is one of three short animated films from that year. In it Felix, talking for the first time, must protect his goose who lays golden eggs for him from a band of pirates. »

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Superman - Electric Earthquake

Superman - Electric Earthquake
1942 - 9 mins

A fanatical Native American scientist demands the return of Manhattan Island to his people or he will unleash artificially created earthquakes upon the city. Lois Lane investigates and is captured by our villan. Naturally, Superman saves the day. »

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Betty Boop - Minnie the Moocher

Betty Boop - Minnie the Moocher
1932 - 8 mins

Cab Calloway appears with Betty Boop in Minnie the Moocher, Betty's 17th cartoon appearance. Betty Boop and Bimbo run away from home, but that night they are scared by a chorus of ghosts singing the title song. This is justifiably one of the most famous cartoons ever made. »

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The Early Bird Gets The Worm

The Early Bird Gets The Worm
1939 - 8 mins

A Mamma bird tells the little birds a bedtime story about the early bird getting the worm. She's also warns them about the fox - who is waiting for the early bird for breakfast. his is a cartoon which has generated a great deal of controversy in that it represents in many ways the deep-seated racial stereotypes found in the media industry of the early twentieth-century. Yet, because it was created by some of animations greatest names, it's a cartoon which should not be neglected. »

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Private Snafu - Booby Traps

Private Snafu - Booby Traps
1944 - 4 mins

Private Snafu learns about the hazards of enemy booby traps in the middle east the hard way. This is one of 26 Private SNAFU cartoons made by the US Army Signal Corps during WWII to educate and boost the morale the troops. Unfortunatly these humours lessons on avoiding booby traps would appear to just as relevent to US forces today in Iraq - only we know them as IED's. »

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Duck and Cover

Duck and Cover
1951 - 9 mins

A Cold War public information film meant to put the fear of God into the citizens of the USA. Watching this, you can almost begin to comprehend the hysteria that surrounded the many false alarms and you begin to wonder if films like this - presumably made with all of the best intentions - aren't actually responsible for warping the minds of a generation of Americans. »

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