WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

animated cartoon
    n 1: a film made by photographing a series of cartoon drawings
         to give the illusion of movement when projected in rapid
         sequence [syn: cartoon, animated cartoon, toon]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

48 Moby Thesaurus words for "animated cartoon":
   3-D, Cinemascope, Cinerama, Technicolor, Western,
   black-and-white film, caricature, cartoon, chiller, cinema,
   color film, comic book, comic strip, comics, creepie, documentary,
   documentary film, educational film, feature, film, flick, flicker,
   funnies, horror picture, horse opera, motion picture,
   motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, newsreel, nudie,
   photodrama, photoplay, picture, picture show, pornographic film,
   preview, short, silent, silent film, skin flick, sneak preview,
   spaghetti Western, talkie, talking picture, thriller, trailer,
   underground film