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#1 · Posted: 3 Dec 2011 13:04
Showing myself as a Belvision Tintin geek, I have ben researching my audio and off-air archives, and for those interested...
BBC1 1972 Crab with the Golden Claws: Screened by BBC1 during the Summer holidays, weekdays daily at 10.50am. All 17 x 5 minute episode format, with English titles and the standard US audio track.
BBC1 1973 Crab with the Golden Claws: Screened by BBC1 during the Summer holidays, weekdays daily at 10.25am. All 17 x 5 minute episode format, with English titles and the standard US audio track. NB: Same film print source as 1972 showings. The final time the 5 minute episodes were screened in the UK; subsequent screenings in 1990 used double-length episode formats.
BBC1 1974 Secret of the Unicorn: Screened at Easter, all 10 x 5 minute episodes, with French title sequences and US audio track.
BBC1 1974 Red Rackham's Treasure: Screened during Summer, all 17 x 5 minute episodes, with English titles at each end and the US audio track. End credits include the 'Produced by Tele-Hachette and Belvision' vocals and the complete end music to its climax. NB: Film prints noticeable spliced after the re-cap and just before the cliffhanger voice-overs, showing that the prints were previously used to assemble a movie-format version.
BBC1 1976 Red Rackham's Treasure: Screened during Summer, 13 x 5 minute & 2 x 10 minute episodes. In 15 episodes to fit into 15 days (3 weeks) exactly, two broadcasts merged two episodes into one, with obvious splices, and the re-cap/ cliffhanger vocals missing. Shown with English titles at each end and the US audio track. End credits include the 'Produced by Tele-Hachette and Belvision' vocals and the complete end-music to its climax. NB: Film prints noticeable spliced after the re-cap and just before the cliffhanger voice-overs, showing that the prints were previously used to assemble a movie-format version.
BBC1 1983 Secret of the Unicorn: Screened during October, all 10 x 5 minute episodes. Not known if English or French titles used as only have audio recording of the broadcasts. NB: The last time this series was shown in the original 5 minute episode format in the UK.
BBC1 1984, Red Rackham's Treasure: All 17 x 5 minute episodes with English titles at each end, and the US audio track. End credits include the 'Produced by Tele-Hachette and Belvision' vocals and the complete end music to its climax. NB: Film prints noticeable spliced after the re-cap and just before the cliffhanger voice-overs, showing that the prints were previously used to assemble a movie-format version. This was the last time any English titled version of Belvision Tintin episodes were seen in the UK, and the last time the full closing music and voice-over were left complete.
ITV 1990 Secret of the Unicorn French titles and US audio. Shown during the ITV Kids morning feature weekdays. Double length episodes with French titles and US audio, so the original episodes merged into 5, with some of the re-caps and cliffhanger vocals removed. Also ITV 1990 Red Rackham's Treasure 8 x 10 minute episodes, 1 x 5 minute episode. Shown in double-length episodes, apart from the original episode 17, which was left intact. French titles; the 'Produced by Tele-Hachette and Belvision' vocal was missing from each closing sequence, and the music also trimmed short, although the titles appear on screen, which is a curious and unknown edit for all these screenings.
Channel 4, 1991 Crab with the Golden Claws: Screened as 8 x 10 minute episodes, 1 x 5 minute episode. Shown in double-length episodes, apart from the original episode 17, which was left intact. Also Channel 4, 1991 Red Rackham's Treasure: Screened as 17 x 5 minute episode. NB: In the original 5 minute episode format, French titles, US audio, and again with the strangely cropped closing audio and removal of the 'Produced by Tele Hachette and Belvision' voice-over.
Channel 4 also screened Black Island in 5 min episodes, Objective Moon, Star of Mystery, Calculus Affair, all in original 5 minute episodes with French titles and US audio, believed to be the LAST time the original episodes have been seen in the UK. (I don't have off-air recordings of these regrettably due to a tape 'accident' in 1998.)
Some issues raised I would like to discuss: 1) What happened to the English title versions of the Belvision Tintins, last seen in 1984 on BBC1? Every screening since has seen French title sequences. 2) Why did the post 1984 screenings of Red Rackham's Treasure cut out the closing vocal, as indicated above, and cut short the closing music by a weird cropped edit, when the visual content remains as original? 3) Never having seen the 60's Peter Hawkins narrated versions, do these still exist in any shape or form, audio recordings or otherwise?
And another question for Tintin experts, can anyone name the closing music of episode 17 of Red Rackham's Treasure, which is unique to that episode? Like most Belvision Tintins the incidental music seems to have been lifted from classical music sources, and I would love to know what this piece is. Actually, would love to identify many of the works used in Belvision Tintins, such as the flute piece in episode 12 of Red Rackham's Treasure, where Tintin and Haddock are on the deck of the Sirius in the moonlight and spot the Eagles cross...
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