Red Rackham's Treasure: The Official Classic Children’s Illustrated Mystery Adventure Series (The Adventures of Tintin)

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Peeters, Benoît (1989). Tintin and the World of Hergé. London: Methuen Children's Books. ISBN 978-0-416-14882-4. Hergé used his own brother, Paul Remi, as the model for Sponsz, although he was also influenced by the image of the Austrian American filmmaker Erich von Stroheim. [29] Mr. and Mrs. Snowball [ edit ] Ridgewell's influence on the Arumbayas resulted in him gaining an enemy in the local witch doctor. When Ridgewell was captured by an enemy nation called the Rumbabas ( Bibaros in the original version), the witch doctor kept this from the other Arumbayas, hoping to be rid of his rival. When one Arumbaya expressed concern for Ridgewell, the witch doctor threatened to turn him and his family into frogs. But Ridgewell got away and fired a dart into the witch doctor's bottom as punishment. Fortunately, unlike the Arumbayas, Ridgewell did not use poisoned darts.

Sheikh Bab El Ehr is an Arab insurgent who fights Emir Ben Kalish Ezab, ruler of the fictional Arabian state of Khemed; though overall he comes across as a villain rather than a noble fighter. Raymond Leblanc, editor of the Tintin magazine viewed the emergence of television as a promising medium for his paper characters. He then decides to create the Belvision Studios. On 15 October 1954, Raymond Leblanc created the Belvision Studios. It was specified that the purpose of the company was to produce filmed programs. The key player of the company was Karel Van Milleghem, editor of Kuifje (the Dutch-speaking version of the Tintin magazine). Goddin, Philippe (2009). The Art of Hergé, Inventor of Tintin: Volume 2: 1937-1949. Michael Farr (translator). San Francisco: Last Gasp. ISBN 978-0-86719-724-2. Horeau, Yves (2004). The Adventures of Tintin at Sea. Michael Farr (translator). London: John Murray. ISBN 978-0-7195-6119-1.

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The Arumbayas are an indigenous people living in the South American rainforest along the fictional river Coliflor. They first appear in The Broken Ear where, investigating the theft of an Arumbaya fetish with a broken ear, Tintin and Snowy venture into the San Theodoros jungle. The British explorer Ridgewell lives with them. Despite a reputation for ferocity, the Arumbayas prove to be relatively civil when Tintin encounters them. They casually explain that their bad reputation may be due to the actions of their neighbours, the Rumbabas, who behead anyone who passes their way. The Arumbayas also appear in Tintin and the Picaros. Ridgewell did bring some of Western civilisation to the Native South Americans, such as introducing them to the game of golf. However, the players do not appear to have mastered it well—on one occasion hitting Tintin rather than the hole in the ground.

In 1991, a collaboration between the French studio Ellipse and the Canadian animation company Nelvana adapted 21 of the stories into a series of episodes. The Secret of the Unicorn was the ninth story of The Adventures of Tintin to be produced and was divided into two thirty-minute episodes. Directed by Stéphane Bernasconi, the series has been praised for being "generally faithful" to the original comics, to the extent that the animation was directly adopted from Hergé's original panels. [59] Disastrous Demonstration: When Calculus first tries to demonstrate his submarine to Tintin and friends, it immediately breaks into pieces upon boarding it. Several liberties were taken in the adaptation and the script quality was sometimes poor. After 89 five-minute episodes, Télé-Hachette was dissatisfied with the result and decided, in 1963, not to renew the contract with Belvision. Nevertheless, Raymond Leblanc decides to produce a new adaptation despite everything, alone with Belvision. It was The Calculus Affair, on a screenplay by Greg and Bernard Fredisch, in thirteen five-minute episodes. Not coproduced by Télé-Hachette, The Calculus Affair has always had a special status and is considered a feature film (like Tintin and the Temple of the Sun or Tintin and the Lake of Sharks). After being released on VHS in the 1980s, it was released on DVD in France on 14 May 2008, in a remastered edition, in the Tintin animated feature set at Citel Vidéo. ‘The Calculus Affair’ DVD was reissued in 2011 in the 23rd volume of the Tintin collection by Hachette editions. Michael Farr said that the scene introducing Calculus was "a comic tour de force" marking the start of the "rich vein of humour" that the character brought to the series. [15] Noting that unlike The Shooting Star, this two-book story arc contains "scarcely an allusion to occupation and war", he praised the arc's narrative as "perfectly paced, without that feeling of haste" present in some of Hergé's earlier work. [17] Tharkey was based on Ang Tharkay, a Nepalese mountain climber and explorer who acted as sherpa and later sirdar for many Himalayan expeditions. He was "beyond question the outstanding sherpa of his era" and he introduced Tenzing Norgay to the world of mountaineering.

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Assouline, Pierre (2009) [1996]. Hergé, the Man Who Created Tintin. Charles Ruas (translator). Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-539759-8. Exact Words: The Thom(p)sons get tired of always pumping air to the diving suit, so the Captain yells at them to keep pumping until he tells them to stop. Naturally, he forgets to tell them to stop after Tintin surfaces, until he investigates the creaking noise at night.