Today marks International Animation Day

28 October 1892 saw the first public performance of Charles-Emile Reynaud"s Theatre Optique in Paris - the moving pictures presented at the time are considered the prototype of modern cartoons.
The history of Belarusian animation began in the 1970s. Belarusian cartoons have won awards at international film and animation festivals and are popular around the world, including in India, Brazil and South Korea.