This work addresses the benefits brought by animation s producing practices to individuals and to the collectivity. The presented discussion is based on the author s experience in the areas of Animation Cinema and Audiovisual Education, as well as in the writings and thoughts of Len Lye and Walter Benjamin, among other authors, concerning questions on perception and the understanding of Time and its dimensions. The production of two short films about animation, Doctor, my son is an Animator, 14 minutes, and Fernando s Film, 22 minutes, is used as means for the investigation of themes such as the Image as a sign for reflection and communication; the concept of the skeptic image, which does not bring a way of thinking constituted by absolute definitions, but rather accepts multiple and evolutional interpretations; the construction of memory registers; the concept of key frames applied as temporal marks for a micro time (Illusion of movement) as well as for a macro time (Collective Memory and History); and the possibility to understand Time and its various dimensions in a particular way by each individual, starting from the experience of producing an animation film. The work also presents a revision of pedagogical initiatives concerning the application of the benefits brought by animation into the formal education, having as reference the Brazilian Anima Escola and the Danish CAP, two projects with similar and simultaneous actions during the same decade. The Anima Escola s Handbook is presented as an annex to the thesis, as a didactic piece about animation for teachers, entirely written by the author of this work.