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English: Animated film How a Mosquito Operates by American cartoonist and animator Winsor McCay.McCay's second film, and one of the earliest animated films in history. A giant mosquito drinks blood from a sleeping man; the mosquito drinks so much that its belly explodes.
[citation needed] The cartoon also relies on slapstick humour much like its inspiration and spiritual predecessor "Tom and Jerry". [ 3 ] only amplifying the level of extremities up a notch; while "traditional" slapstick cartoon characters prefer dropping anvils and pianos on each other, this show sometimes uses atomic bombs or submarines .
How a Mosquito Operates was released at a time when audience demand for animation outstripped the studios' ability to supply it. According to animator Chris Webster, at a time when most studios struggled to make animation merely work, McCay showed a mastery of the medium and a sense of how to create believable motion.
The film opens with a wanted poster of Malaria Mike, the mosquito, placed on a tree. The surrounding area is a swamp. Mike himself admires his image in the poster, though he is not satisfied with the depiction of his nose. A splash of water alerts Mike to the presence of a potential target for him: the naked backside of Snafu.
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Rodger Bumpass as Harry Mosquito; Ashley Tisdale as the leader of the Blueberry Scouts, a troop of ant children that Dot belongs to. Jan Rabson and Carlos Alazraqui as Axle and Loco, a duo of grasshoppers from Hopper's gang. Rabson also voices another grasshopper while Alazraqui voices an ant that becomes "lost" when a leaf falls on the ant line.
Vinnie (voiced by Dwayne Hill) is a mosquito who is Creepie's adoptive father. He is a New Age vegan that has a sinister vampiric appearance. Like his wife, he is loving to his adopted daughter. He loves to paint and meditate. Gnat (voiced by Stevie Vallance) is Creepie's younger brother, a gnat. He constantly sneaks in Creepie's backpack and ...
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