I’ve written a couple of times about the 500 minute-and-a-half-long Peanuts shorts being produced in France, but now I can finally show some of them to you, thanks to a site that AAUGH Blog reader Guillaume pointed me to. Surf on over to the production company’s website, scroll down a bit, and you” find a video display for 5 clips (mysteriously labeled “EXTRAIT 01″,”EXTRAIT 03”, “EXTRAIT 04”, “EXTRAIT 05”, and “EXTRAIT 06”; what happened to EXTRAIT 02, we may never know!) totaling about half an hour. The visual choices are very interesting; they aggressively try to invoke reading a comic strip, using panels at time, and using dotted color areas meant to invoke the printing process used in the Sunday comics. While they’re adapting strips from a variety of eras, the characters designs are from late in the run. Watching them in French – a language I don’t know – is interesting, and the voices fit the characters in my mind to varying degrees (Molly Volley works quite well.) These are being translated for various markets, so with luck we will someday get to watch this material in English!

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