movie maker wants to show a girl running, the artist must draw her feet in different places in each
picture. When the pictures are shown very one
after another, it looks like the girl is running. Walt Disney was
not the first or only one person to use animation in movies, but
he is the most famous. His first Mickey Mouse cartoon in 1928,
was called Plane Crazy. This was a short, silent movie about
the adventures of a little mouse. Today, 70 years later, Mickey
Mouse is still a favorite character, and there are hundreds of cartoons and storybooks about him in
many l Many people in the movie business thought that animation was only useful for short cartoons.
They did not think people would want to see long movies made from moving drawings. Disney
did not agree with them. He believed he could tell any kind of story using animation. His first movie was Snow White and Seven Dwarfs. Disney spent all his money making this
movie. Fortunately, it was a great success. He next made Dumbo, about a baby elephant, and this
was f by many more movies. Many of these are still popular today.
When we think of Disney, however, we don’t think only of movies, we also think of
Disneyland. There are Disney lands in Japan, the USA, France and China (Hong Kong). There
will be another one in Shanghai soon. They are large parks where people can meet characters from
Disney’s movies and visit scenes from his movies. Amost famous movies many years ago, they are as popular now as they were when he made them.
Today, we can buy them on video, and from time to time we can see them in theatres. When Walt
Disney began making his animated cartoons all those years ago, people drew all the pictures by
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I, Robot 2: humans vs. robots!
Here is a piece of good news for I, Robot fans: Robot 2
may soon meet the public!
I, Robot, the science fiction action film released in 2004,
was such a hot movie that it grossed(收入总计) $347 million
for a worldwide total.
The story is between humans and robots. In 2035, robots
serve humans under three laws:
1. A robot may not injure a human being;
2. A robot must obey orders given by human beings.
3. A robot must protect itself as long as such protection does not conflict with the first or
second law.
However, with the development of technology, the robots start to have their own thinking.
Instead of obeying the orders as they are programmed, they want to protect themselves and rule
human beings. A battle between humans and robots is inevitable(不可避免的).
Do you believe that one day computers may be cleverer than human brains? Are you afraid