41.   He also began doing voice-over work for animated films.

42.   He went to NBC to get money to build it, offering to sell the rights to televise his animated films.

43.   I dropped him a hint that I would love to star in an animated film.

44.   If the Hollywood live-action movie is in danger of turning into an amusement park ride, the health of the animated film has never been more robust.

45.   In Europe they met people connected to the British Film Institute who suggested that they write a script in order to get a grant to do an animated film.

46.   In most other respects, the show copies the animated film, right down to its two-dimensional, illustrated fairy tale look.

47.   In the past, only animated shorts received awards, and an animated film needed to compete with live-action features.

48.   In trying to make an animated musical film from the Bible, however serious the effort is, DreamWorks is treading on potentially treacherous ground.

49.   It takes about one and a half million images to create one feature-length animated film, not including the countless drawings involved in preparation.

50.   It went instead to William Kentridge, a South African maker of beautiful if earnest animated films.