Eli5: how did animation work before computers?

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Did people literally just draw thousands of pictures that looked almost identical and then they stitched them together, like a flip book? How did they do it, and how was it even remotely cost-effective and worth the effort?

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You just described classical animation my friend, how did they do it? Well with a lot of people for the animated parts, the background was usually painted separately so it could be reused for multiple frames, they used a machine called a rotoscope to copy the movements from film as to how was it cost effective I really don’t know AFAIK it really wasn’t so that’s why they had so many repeating scenes

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