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Animated Films

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Animation may be cinema's most boundless art form: here anything can come alive: a teapot, a toy, a whole feeling. What began with painstakingly hand-drawn frames led through the first feature-length cartoons to photorealistic computer worlds, and these films have long moved children and adults alike. Their homes stretch from Hollywood to Japan to England. This pack gathers the finest and most important animated films and studios: recognise the pioneer Snow White, Disney's first feature-length cartoon, the computer trailblazer Toy Story from Pixar, the Japanese Studio Ghibli with masterpieces like Spirited Away, the musical hit Frozen, the kitchen comedy Ratatouille, the animal classic The Lion King, the cheeky fairy-tale parody Shrek, the heartfelt Inside Out, the British claymation studio Aardman and the hand-drawn global success Your Name: recognise them by their images and stories, from the earliest hand-inked cels to today's dazzling computer-generated worlds, each one proof that a drawing can move an audience as deeply as any live-action film.

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Which 1937 film was Disney's first full-length animated feature?

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Critics dubbed the project “Disney's Folly”.

💡 Did you know? It became a huge success.

Which 1995 film was the first fully computer-animated feature?

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Toy Story

It made Pixar world-famous.

💡 Did you know? Tom Hanks voiced the cowboy Woody.

Which studio is behind “Toy Story” and “Finding Nemo”?

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Pixar

The studio is now part of Disney.

💡 Did you know? Its mascot is a hopping desk lamp.

Which Japanese studio did Hayao Miyazaki co-found?

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Studio Ghibli

Its mascot is the forest spirit Totoro.

💡 Did you know? The films are famed for hand-drawn artistry.

Which Ghibli film won the Best Animated Feature Oscar in 2003?

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Spirited Away

It was the first hand-drawn anime to win it.

💡 Did you know? The film is a worldwide phenomenon.

In which Disney film does Elsa sing “Let It Go”?

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Frozen

The song became a global earworm (2013).

💡 Did you know? It was long the highest-grossing animated film.

In which Pixar film does a rat cook in a Paris restaurant?

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Ratatouille

The rat Rémy dreams of becoming a chef.

💡 Did you know? The title is also a French vegetable dish.

Which 1994 Disney film tells of Simba, Mufasa and Scar?

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The Lion King

Its stage musical has run for decades on Broadway.

💡 Did you know? “Hakuna Matata” became a catchphrase.

Which green ogre is DreamWorks' best-known hero?

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Shrek

The first film won the inaugural Animation Oscar in 2002.

💡 Did you know? His best friend is a chatty donkey.

In which Pixar film do emotions like Joy and Sadness steer a girl?

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Inside Out

The story unfolds inside eleven-year-old Riley's mind.

💡 Did you know? The film won the Oscar in 2016.

Which British studio created “Wallace & Gromit” in clay animation?

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Aardman

The figures are moved frame by frame in clay.

💡 Did you know? “Shaun the Sheep” is theirs too.

Which 2016 Makoto Shinkai anime about a body swap became a hit?

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Your Name

Two teenagers swap bodies in their sleep.

💡 Did you know? It became one of the top-grossing anime worldwide.

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