door Henrieke » wo jan 10, 2007 11:03 am
Een Italiaanse vriendin heeft voor mij de hele lap tekst naar het Engels vertaald. (waarvoor heel veel dank!)
Nu is het ook wel ongeveer duidelijk waar de show over ging:
Title: Disney walking (or presentation or Disney happy brigade)
Year: 1982
Theme, script, animation, direction: Romano Scarpa
Produced by: Mondadori
Length: 5’20”
Color, 35 mm
Topolino Show – vai col verde opening theme
In 1982 on channel 4, on Saturday afternoon, a show called ‘topolino show – vai col verde’ was broadcasted. It was a programme with games for children and usually included a Disney movie, a drawer/artist (Marco Rota) who drew ‘live’ characters to identify, and a meeting with that time’s director of Topolino, Gaudenzio Capelli.
What was probably the strong point was the theme of this show: the Disney walking; a parade with Disney characters that go from Duckburg to a tv station office (in the middle of the woods) and get ready to go on air… this opening had something different from the usual disney cartoons, the characters looked more… familiar. Obviously at that time it wasn’t known, but the reason was simple: the author was Romano Scarpa, so those characters were all drawn in his own style. There were also characters created by him, like Brigitta, Paperetta and Gancetto, a debut in the world of animation for them (unluckily with no followers). It was also Paperinik’s first time in animation (even if not a character by Scarpa).
The main character though is a new character, a ranger that tries any way to block the other characters (maybe because too loud) in their march towards the big sequoia where the tv station is set. After many tries the poor ranger gives up and joins them. Then arrived at the sequoia there are Mickey and Gancetto waiting for them that set the videotape with a Disney movie to be broadcasted. Here the opening theme ends (and the Topolino show started with the Disney movie)
In Scarpa’s original idea every character had a little gag, butthey were cut for obvious time problems. The only remaining gag is Huey, Dewey and Louie scaring the ranger with fake weapons. The ideas for other gags can be seen in the storyboard on the right.
The music, coming from Paperetta Yé-Yé’s radio, is the classic Heigh-Ho from the seven dwarves (written by larry morey and frank Churchill), in a more modern version.
Fun fact: Brigitta follows Uncle Scrooge who, unlike the other characters who have picnic baskets, carries a money bag… this gag could have its ideal sequel in the image on the back of the ‘comic art’ books and the cover of ‘sognando la calidonia’, both inspired by the same theme (that after all was the same of the first even panel containing Brigitta).
In the book series ‘comic art’ dedicated to the great stories of Romano Scarpa, the initial background for the opening, with Duckburg and the deposit, is recycled. This time though Scarpa added a whole lot of characters, including all the ones he created.