In 1908, Émile Cohl released the short film Fantasmagorie, widely regarded as the world's first animated cartoon. From these humble beginnings, cartoons blew up into detailed theatre shorts by the ...

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When Walt Disney had a vision to bring some magic into modern-day life, he relaunched a company under his own name, The Walt Disney Company, in 1923, that would become invaluable to the world of ...