please help me differ motion pictures from cartoons.

what do they mean? 

Thanks in advance. 

Hi!

 

Motion pictures are films in general and cartoons are normally seen on TV, like Tom and Jerry or Popeye or Songoku, the famous Japanese cartoon.

I hope this may help but maybe a native speaker will be clearer about this.

 

Two things generally separate them --- 

 

Motion Pictures is another way to say "movie", and they  usually involve "real life" people and things.  They are longer than cartoons -- usually anywhere from an hour to two hours.

 

Cartoons are animation -- they are not real people or things. They are drawings or pictures of things that are put into movement. They are usually short and seen on tv. 30 minutes or sometimes an hour long. 

 

Now, there are sometimes cartoons that are  longer and are shown in a movie theater.  These are rare. But these rare cartoons seen in a movie theater we will also call motion picture. But then usually there will be some explanation that it is a cartoon, and not a "real life" movie. 

 

I hope this helps.

 

Cheers from China!!