动画片的发展,经历了长达半个世纪的艰辛历程。今天已采用高超的电影技术和最新设备摄制的动画片,最初不过是一种环状转动装置的玩具,即一种利用视觉残留图象的作用制作的、类似走马灯的玩意儿。后来才逐渐发展成动画片。拍制动画片的过程是极为复杂的。首先要把一秒钟内发生的动作分解成一点一点变化的二十四个动作,再把它们画成画,然后按顺序将一张张画拍成照片再放映。由于视觉残留图象的作用,这些照片看上去好象在活动。一卷长八百英尺的影片需要画一万三千张画,但现在只要把一张画分成活动部分和不动部分(背景),然后一一画出活动部分就可以了。把画面画在透明的胶片上,再在背面涂上不透明的涂 The development of animation, has gone through as long as half a century of hard journey. The cartoons that have been filmed today using superb film technology and the latest equipment were originally just toys for a ring-shaped rotating device, a sort of horse-like lantern made of the effect of a visual residue image. Later gradually developed into animated films. The process of filming a cartoon is extremely complicated. The first step is to break up the action that takes place in a second into twenty-four moves that change bit by bit, draw them into paintings, and then take one picture in sequence and take a picture for further screening. Due to the effect of visually residual images, these pictures appear to be active. A roll of eight hundred feet of footage requires 13,000 paintings, but now it is enough to divide a picture into moving parts and moving parts (background), and then drawing the moving parts one by one. Draw the picture on transparent film, then opaquely coat the back