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Hello fellow Tintin fans :) Hope your all well and good?

I remember how, as a child (as I am sure most of you on here do), how much I admired and treasured the classic Tintin episodes.

So I am now looking to buy the 75th Anniversary Collection, and wondered if this set includes all the animated feature films as well?

If not, which ones do I need to buy?

I had a look at a box-set containing 3 films but the same titles were listed in this box-set. For example The Calculus Affair is listed in the box-set.

Have they made a separate film for this naming it the same title? It is just confusing as to whether or not I would need to buy the films separately.

I think the confusion you are having is that there were animated cartoons and films made long before the Ellipse-Nelvana series you remember.

The 75th Anniversary collection is made up of the TV episodes which were made in Canada in the early Nineties by Ellipse-Nelvana.

The animated movie boxed set are three films made in the Sixties and Seventies by Belvision, who also were behind an earlier TV series, which made several of the books into cliff-hanger serials, shown in five minute segments.

The Calculus Affair movie that they made, in this set, is (depending on which source you read) either a compilation of the episodes of a serial, or was made as a film then cut down into episodes (I'm sure someone will fill in the correct detail). Anyway, the DVD has the feature version.

Prisoners of the Sun was a full-scale theatrical cartoon feature, based on Crystal Balls and Prisoners, and Tintin and the Lake of Sharks was a second cinema film, this time based on a new and original story, creayed by Greg, the editor of Tintin magazine.

So if you bought both sets, you wouldn't have any duplication of material - they are all different cartoons, albeit with a shared source.

Thank you very much, that does help :)

Have you or anyone else got a list of films that were made be Belvision that I could add to my collection. If there is anymore that is....

Having seen film posters and lobby cards on eBay I'm pretty sure the cartoon film adaptation that Belvision made of the Seven Crystal Balls and Prisoners of the Sun in 1969 was called 'The Temple of the Sun'

It's probably been called a lot of things, the way that titles get garbled from release to release!

Although Temple appears in the French original title, as it does in the name of the album, I'm not aware that it ever had an English-language release requiring posters and lobby-cards - so perhaps you have seen over-seas posters etc. for sale?

The box of DVDs is slightly confusing, as the titles are given in French on the outer carton, but in English on the sleeves; I'm fairly certain it is listed as Prisoners on the cover of the DVD I was discussing (I notice that Play.com lists it as Prisoner... - that's cut-backs for you!

Yes I've only seen French language movie posters and German lobby cards. I was just translating the title into English. On the French language poster the film is called 'Tintin et le Temple du Soleil' (Tintin and the Temple of the Sun). In the German language it has the same title.

I think 'Prisoners of the Sun' is a better title and I'm not saying that because I'm English.