When searching for some pictures of my grandparents.. i found these gems..
My old room, when living in Deinze.
At the back it says (developed) in dec. 2002.
So i was 17.
Always on my best.. with the whole collection by my side.. (even the bedcovers I still have!)
Also the furniture of that time.. i still use the bedside lamp and black table in my class now. And have all the plushies still close nearby.. (have donated a few to my daughter)
See the subtle love for *Angel*.. yes..
And my robotic cat I once received from Sinterklaas.. (maybe it was that year too) it still lives in my closet and it still meowing)
And all of the self made portraits of killerwhales i used to paint for hours.. hoping i had a little talent for it, like my granddad.
Great find, great find
I Also have a vid of my playing a piece of the fur elise in my keyboard.. so you see a little more of it too.
This post is about Free willy (yet again) but this time.. more or less something lesser known about the free willy franchise.. I didn't had a clue, but somewhere in the '10s I found some old VHS tapes about something free willy like, the animated series!! :O
I was baffled (yet again) but managed to get 3 copies of this show with even dutch titles on the tapes AND the tapes being subtitled in dutch! YAY.. some treasures you can find on yard sales.. :O
Here is more info about it.. (just for me, because no-one reads this blog - ahwel - it IS interesting!)
Too know this animated series just came out in 1994, thus jumping on the free willy wave of that time!
note: the first Free willy came out 16th of July 1993!
The show continues the adventures of the orca Willy and Jesse, the boy who freed him from captivity as shown in the film.[2] In retrospect, the series also anticipates multiple plot elements of the film sequel, Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home, released the following summer. The overarching conflict is reminiscent of Moby-Dick: a powerful oil baron, known to the main characters only as a cyborg called "The Machine" until the final episodes, loses his arm and part of his face to Willy while committing an environmental atrocity and wants revenge upon "that rotten whale... and his boy". The show aired on ABC from September 24, 1994 to December 16, 1995.
Plot
Jesse has been adopted by his foster parents, the Greenwoods, and they have moved from Seattle to the Pacific coast. He is given a job at the Misty Island Oceanic Reserve, a local wildlife rescue and research institute where Randolph, his Native American mentor from the film, now works. In the first episode, Jesse discovers he has the ability to talk to animals and understand their speech; Randolph, a Haida, explains that he is a Truth Talker. This revelation allows for Willy and the other sea creatures featured in the show to have full personalities and more prominent roles in key plot events. Jesse and Randolph work with Mr. Naugle, the head biologist, and Marlene, a research assistant, who are studying Einstein, a dolphin, and Lucille, a sea lion, teaching them behavioral communication with normal humans. In the animated series the sea animals can talk including Willy. Jesse is the only one who can talk to Willy and the sea animals.
Whaaaat?? It aired on september the 24th?? =P like.. it was my 9th birthday!! coincidence? I think not =P.. wat a cool anekdote.
And now the funny part... somewhere in 1995 somebody screwed up (or has it?) some of the episodes on this particular vhs tapes.. because the 3 VHS are in absolutely the wrong order.
on the first VHS (tape 1) it has episodes 4 and 5 on it..
on the second VHS (tape 2) it has episodes 1 and 2 on it..
and on the third tape (tape 3) it has episodes 6 and 9 on it...
????? strange.
unfortunatly i cannot find other examples of VHS from the animated series.. (even wiki doesn't know about these) so it will remain a mystery for just ever.
After a quick resarch it looks like every copy of VHS (also in other languages) are these with the same episodes on! Strange.
The animated series looks nothing like the movies and have no link to them too whatsoever - no original voices - the voice of Jesse sounds a little bit like the real Jason James Richter. but that's it! It also introduces the fact (SPOILER ALERT) that Jesse can talk to the animals (and the animals as wel!) . And it's def. a kids show.. (do not try to watch this as an adult =P) It has a little bit of Captain planet thrown in, but on a sea level =).. if you can remember captain planet.. it also focuses a lot on environment and pollution and stuff.. thus trying to be a little educational here! It ran for 2 seasons and has 21 episodes.
BUT THANK GOD for YOUTUBE.. yet again!
Here are the episodes 1 and 2 from the VHS tapes =) YAY!
so.. should I toss the VHS away? Or not? That's the question! =)
I finished a book just yesterday about the adventures of Huck Finn.. Also a book from my moms closet.
No it's not the original book with Huck and Jim, (from 1884 -1885) but more or less some kind of more 'younger childrens audience appropriatie' spin off on his adventures. This book is mostly based on the 'new adventures of Huck Finn'.. an animated series from Hanna-Barbara from the 1960's.
When looking for the episodes it's only series had only 20 episodes and ran from 1968 till 1969. When looking up those particular episodes (as written down in the book - mind you DUTCH ) the text do not match any of the prescribed tv episodes. And have other outcomes storiewise then on the tv show (as if this makes any sense?)
Maybe, just maybe.. the story in this book is somewhat loosely based on the episodes 4 'the little people' and 5. 'Pirate Island'. Mostly with the characters in it that are also repicted in the book.
Well - I guess H and B have taken ideas from Disney cos the whole adventures are in the animated world. There are pictures from 3 young teens everywhere in the book. It was recently i discovered this was from a tv show.
The live actors' scenes were filmed in front of a royal blue backdrop (an early forerunner to the modern-day CGI green screen) and the cartoon background and characters were animated in later.[10] Working with a technology still in its infancy, the young cast was required to master the art of engaging in conversational exchanges without having their animated co-stars to interact with. Shea recalled, "Injun Joe, for instance, was a cartoon character, so when I had to talk to him, I'd run my eyes slowly up the blue screen until the director told me to stop. Then I'd just try to remember where that point on the screen was."[10] Since the voice actors would not record their audio tracks until after principal filming was completed, character actor Bruce Watson, whom Shea described as "the greatest dialogue coach in the world", would perform the lines of all the animated characters during filming for the live-action stars to interact with.[15][10] Each episode reportedly took approximately 4 hours to film and six months to animate.[6][10]
CAST:
Ted Cassidy as Injun Joe (famously known for being LURCH on the original 'Adams FAMLIY!
Michael Shea as Huckleberry Finn (acted till 1984 - where are they now? Retired from being in the Police Force/LAPD for years!
LuAnn Haslam as Becky Thatcher -no acting credits after tvshow - (Retired from begin a math teacher - film teacher)
Kevin Schultz as Tom Sawyer (acted till 1986 - went into photography)
