Belle et Sébastien
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Belle et Sébastien, is a series of French novels by Cécile Aubry and is about the mountain-based adventures of a young boy and his dog, a Great Pyrenees, in a small village in the Pyrenees Mountains, a mountain range between France and Spain. Sebastian lived with his grandfather and aunt in Spain and one day, he and Belle set out to cross the Pyrenees to get to France to find his mother, a Rom. The series, better known in the Anglosphere as Belle and Sebastian, was later made into a live-action television series in the late 1960s, and an anime version nearly two decades later.
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[edit] Television series
The live action show, filmed in black-and-white, was broadcast from 1965 to 1970. In 1967, it was dubbed and the title was Anglicized to Belle and Sebastian and first appeared on British television's BBC2 in the morning, with an initial airing date of October 2 1967 and its initial run concluded on January 1, 1968. Shown in the time slot after Blue Peter, this dubbed French adventure soon became an essential ingredient of school holiday television.
The anime version, released initially under its Japanese name of Meiken Jolie, was created in 1980, a joint production of France's MK Company and Visual 80 Productions and Japan's Toho Company, Ltd., with animation director Toshiyuki Kashiwakura helming the project and character designs from Shuichi Seki. The show was broadcast on French and Japanese television in 1981, with American cable network Nickelodeon picking it up in 1984.
[edit] Miscellaneous
The Scottish band Belle & Sebastian took their name from the earlier TV series.
The part of Sébastien in the TV series was played by Mehdi El Glaoui, Cécile Aubry's son from her marriage to Si Brahim El Glaoui, caid (local administrator) and pasha of Marrakech (and Edward G. Robinson's brother-in-law, although some accounts say this was his father). Mehdi also sings the final song, L'Oiseau (lyrics: http://www.paroles.net/chansons/11493.htm). He continued to act in further films made by his mother and others, and later went on to become president of the pharmaceutical firm Wyeth-Lederlé.
[edit] Anime Staff
Source: The Anime Encyclopedia by Jonathan Clements and Helen McCarthy, Anime News Network
- Director: Keiji Hayakawa, Shinji Okada, Kazuyoshi Yokota, Fumio Ikeno, Seiji Endo
- Script: Toshiyuki Kashiwakura, Soji Yoshikawa, Kunio Nakatani, Mitsuru Majima
- Character Design: Shuichi Seki
- Animation Director: Nobuyuki Kitajima, Shinichi Tsuji, Takashi Saijo, Tsunenaka Nozaki, Yoshishige Kosako, Yoshiyuki Momose, others
- Music: Akihiro Komori, TT Nescebance
- Production: Toho, Visual 80, NHK (air date: 07 April 1981 to 22 June 1982)
- Theme Song Performance: Mitsuko Horie (ending)
- Voice Cast:
- Sebastian: Tohru Furuya (Japanese), Adrian Knight (English)
- Narrator (Japanese): Hiroko Suzuki
- Cesar (Japanese): Ichiro Nagai
- Angelina (Japanese): Keiko Yokozawa
[edit] External links
- Belle et Sébastien at the Internet Movie Database
- Belle and Sebastian at the Internet Movie Database
- Little Gems: TV screenshots, MP3, plot outline, etc.
| Formerly Broadcast Animated Nickelodeon Shows of the 1980s |
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| Channels on the Nickelodeon Network: TV Land | Nick Too | Nick GAS | Nicktoons Network | Noggin / The N |
| Premiered between 1983-1989:
Bananaman | DangerMouse | Belle and Sebastian | Star Trek: The Animated Series | The Little Prince | The Smurfs | Mysterious Cities of Gold | Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea | Adventures of the Little Koala | Heathcliff | Jim Henson's Muppet Babies | Inspector Gadget | Maple Town | Count Duckula | The Alvin Show on Nickelodeon | Beetlejuice | Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics | Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon | Noozles | The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! | The World of David the Gnome fr:Belle et Sébastien he:בל וסבסטיאן (אנימה) ja:名犬ジョリィ |
