Figure 1.--Several films have been made about Tin-Tin the famous Belgian detective from the cartoon series. HNC has noted several stills from the films. We do not know, however, what the actual titles are or what the plots were. This appears to be a 1960s version. |
Several films have been made about the famous Belgian reporter-detective from the cartoon series. HNC has noted several stills from the films. We do not know, however,
what the actual titles are or what the plots were. They appear to be be very low-cost productions. As films they have little merit, but because they feature one of
Belgium's pop-culture icons they are of some importance. They also often feature children. HBC has, however, no information on the costuming. Often in low-budget European films, the children wore their own clothes rather than being costumed. I do not know if this was the case in these films. Tintin has different names in different countries. In neighboring Netherlands he is "Kuifje", I'm not sure which name is used in Flanders. We know one film was made in the late 1960s.
The most famous Belgian boy literary character is Tintin, the comic character created by author Hergé. The Tintin books are the most well known comics for French-speaking children, as Hergé says from 7 to 77 years. The name of Hergé has been made out of
author's reversed initials (R. G. pronounced in French "air-jay")--Georges Rémi (1907-1983). Hergé as a young boy was a devoted Boy Scout and actually started his career in comic
strips by publishing comics in Scouts magazines. His first book, Tintin au pays des Soviets (Tintin in the land of the Soviets) was published 1930 and his last book, Tintin et les Picaros in 1979. In total Hergé published 23 books, translated into 45 languages, sold 180 million copies.
Tintin is the most popular French-language cartoon character. Tintin continues to be popular in France and Belgium. A French reader reports, "Tintin is as popular as toay as he was decades ago. A lot of the tintin cartoon books were made into films. Some were shot as live features and others as animated films. All those films were produced by "Casterman". Another production of Casterman are the illustrations by a famous draughtman Marcel Marlier . The little
stories are know of the all girl and are a reference for them.
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