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Just imagine how much fun studies can be if cartoon characters like Mickey and Donald start teaching children, alphabets and numbers in their mother tongue. Sesame Workshop, an international NGO, has created an innovative educational programme on the similar lines called “Galli Galli Sim Sim”. It is the Indian version of Sesame Street, the English educational programme of Sesame workshop. Galli Galli Sim Sim is 65 episode preschool television series, created to make education a joyride for Indian children. Its four colourful characters, Chamki, Aanchoo, Googly and Boombah encourage young children to learn basic cognitive and numeracy skills. Along with them, human characters representing different genders, regions and religions act as Galli Galli Sim Sim residents and represent the vibrancy of India’s multi-culturalism.
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During the next ten years, Walt Disney invented Donald Duck, Goofy, Pluto, and many more cartoon characters that are famous to this day. Many people, children and adults alike, went to movie theaters to watch his short cartoons. This was just the beginning of his success!
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Rolling Stone has told the media that the four-page cartoon foldout is "editorial content" produced by the magazine despite the fact it is surrounded by and indistinguishable from R.J. Reynolds' Camel ad. This is a meaningless distinction to the magazine's readers, including some 1.5 million youth, who will see the nine-page spread as one giant ad for Camel cigarettes (estimate on the number of youth readers, aged 12-17, comes from the magazine's media kit at: www.srds.com/mediakits/rollingstone/demographics.html). Rolling Stone may claim that the four-page cartoon spread is not part of the Camel ad that surrounds it, but the cartoon's content, layout and placement make it appear to be an integral part of the ad. That can't be an accident. Why would the spread begin and end with a Surgeon General's warning if it wasn't a cigarette ad?
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Golden Age is an animated dark comedy revealing the shocking true stories of the world's strangest cartoon characters. Each episode uses a whirlwind blend of mixed media to satirize classic cartoons from the past. The first episode follows the scandalous career of Jerome, the gumdrop from the movie theater refreshment cartoons that played before movies in the 1950s. "Marching Gumdrop" kicked off the series May 8, 2006 (http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload).
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The PC Animation Station lets boys and girls make their favorite cartoon characters talk. A cool-looking digital recording device lets kids capture conversations and sound in real life, and then download to a PC. The software lets them edit, change phrases around, and add wild sound effects. The ultimate result comes when the kids choose a cartoon image on the computer screen. The character's facial gestures simulate speech while the recorded dialogue appears to come from its mouth!
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A list of the greatest cartoon characters of all time that doesn't put Daffy Duck at No.1? Prepothterouth! And bumps Tom and Jerry way down to No.50? D'oh! And rates the squeaking nuisance Pikachu higher than the evil mastermind Boris Badenov? Reee-dickle-dockle.
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