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ANIMATED CARTOON [4 records]

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Record 1 2016-03-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Cinematography
  • Audiovisual Techniques and Equipment
DEF

An artist ... who draws the progressive changes in movement.

DEF

One that contributes to the production of an animated cartoon or animation(as by making drawings).

OBS

animator: Official title no. 3314-114 of the Canadian Classification of Occupations (BROADCAST., MOTION PIC. & STAGE).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Cinématographie
  • Audiovisuel (techniques et équipement)
DEF

Personne qui crée et dessine des dessins d'animation pour le cinéma, en représentant à l'aide de dessins successifs les étapes diverses de l'action et les mouvements des personnages.

CONT

intervalliste : dessinateur d'animation qui fait les dessins servant d'intervalles entre les dessins clés.

OBS

dessinateur d'animation : Appellation officielle no 3314-114 de la Classification canadienne descriptive des professions (RADIO., TÉLÉV., CINÉMA ET THÉÂTRE).

Spanish

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Record 2 2006-03-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cinematography
  • Audiovisual Techniques and Equipment
DEF

A special type of film [including] the documentary, the newsreel, and the animated cartoon.

OBS

"Nontheatrical" (describes a] film of substandard size that is designed primarily for showing in the home, classroom, or assembly hall.

CONT

The wholly nontheatrical film tends to be of two- to three-reel length.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cinématographie
  • Audiovisuel (techniques et équipement)

Spanish

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Record 3 1997-05-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Television Arts
  • Cinematography
  • Video Technology
DEF

The exact synchronization of a visual image in a motion picture with an associative musical sound. This technique was common in the cartoon films of Walt Disney, with musical sounds accompanying every movement of the animated characters.

OBS

Hence, the technique has sometimes come to be described as "Mickey Mousing" or "Mickey Mousing the music," especially when overworked in coordinating music with image. Use of the technique, particularly in comedies and suspense stories, has proved an effective device for wedding sound to visual image.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Télévision (Arts du spectacle)
  • Cinématographie
  • Vidéotechnique
DEF

Synchronisation parfaite entre une image provenant d'un film animé et un son musical.

Spanish

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Record 4 1988-12-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Audiovisual Techniques and Equipment
OBS

animated : Made in the form of an animated cartoon or of an animation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Audiovisuel (techniques et équipement)
CONT

Après cette structuration virtuelle du message, il faut [...] faire l'inventaire des documents à insérer [...] : photo ou diapositive [...]; interview de tel personnage; diagramme animé de tel phénomène; extrait de film d'illustration [...]

CONT

On se limite encore souvent au schéma animé.

Spanish

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