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Saturday, December 3, 2011

"Il était une fois l'Espace"

Era uma vez o Espaço (figurinas), Maia e Borges, Portugal,
1983
Another cartoon, this one going a little deeper into human condition, future prospects and the creation of the universe. "Il était une fois l'Espace" followed another multi-country success series "Il était une fois l'homme". Even though it was a French cartoon (Procidis company), other countries like Italy, Canada, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Israel participated all in the production.

What made it quite interesting is that it became a multicultural and equalitarian cartoon with "progressist" themes and ideas. For example, Psi, (middle of image) was black - quite unheard of for a cartoon character (and protagonist) of a 80'ies TV serie. Even the president of the republic of planet Omega was a woman, democratically elected...
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousDecember 11, 2011 at 5:00 PM

    Who is the character on the left, i have owned one for about 20 years and have no clue who or what he is...

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  2. Geoffrey PeetersDecember 13, 2011 at 9:48 AM

    The smaller character is called in French "le Nabot" ("the Runt") and is one of the 2 evil guys (together with "Le Teigneux" - "Scabby" just next to him on hte picutre). They both represent all that is bad and evil in the serie.

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