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  Winsor McCay is considered the first great film animator. He developed animation as an art form and delighted the public with his beautiful, elaborately drawn characters. A self-taught artist and cartoonist, he first began working for New York newspapers.
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  The first full-length cel-animated feature in motion picture history. The first animated feature film produced in America, the first produced in full color, the first to be produced by Walt Disney,