Who made the first animated cartoon films?
ANIMATED CARTOON FILMS were made in the USA and Britain in 1906. The earliest American example was Humorous Phases of Funny Faces, produced by Tames Stuart Blackton for the Vitagraph Co. of New York. The film consisted of 8000 drawings and showed simple animated scenes such as a man rolling his eyes and blowing smoke from his cigar at a girl, a dog jumping through a hoop, etc.