The Little Polar Bear (original) (raw)
The Little Polar Bear (in Dutch: Lars de kleine ijsbeer) is a franchise about a polar bear cub named Lars who first starred in a number of books written by Dutch author, . The first of several animated adaptations of the books is a Japanese original video animation, released on April 28, 1990, with animation production by I.G Tatsunoko (now known as Production I.G). It later became an animated TV series for BBC TV and WDR Lars, der kleine Eisbär, in the 1990s. The show proved to be popular in Germany.
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| dbo:abstract | The Little Polar Bear (in Dutch: Lars de kleine ijsbeer) is a franchise about a polar bear cub named Lars who first starred in a number of books written by Dutch author, . The first of several animated adaptations of the books is a Japanese original video animation, released on April 28, 1990, with animation production by I.G Tatsunoko (now known as Production I.G). It later became an animated TV series for BBC TV and WDR Lars, der kleine Eisbär, in the 1990s. The show proved to be popular in Germany. The show was later revived between 2001 and 2003. For , Warner Bros. and animation studio bought the rights to adapt the children's books into a feature-length film, released in 2001. Following the success of the feature, several direct-to-video features were released, one of the new characters included was a tiger cub. In 2005, another film, The Little Polar Bear 2: The Mysterious Island (German: Der kleine Eisbär 2: Die geheimnisvolle Insel) was released and also proved successful. The score to The Little Polar Bear (1) was composed by Nigel Clarke & Michael Csanyi-Wills and recorded by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London and was nominated for several awards. (en) The Little Polar Bear (em neerlandês: Lars de kleine ijsbeer; em português: Lars, O Ursinho Polar) é uma franquia sobre um filhote de urso polar chamado Lars que primeiro estrelou em vários livros escritos por um autor holandês, . A primeira de várias adaptações animadas dos livros é uma animação japonesa em Original Video Animation, lançada em 28 de abril de 1990, com produção de animação da I.G Tatsunoko (agora conhecida como Production I.G). Mais tarde, tornou-se uma série de TV animada para a TV BBC, Lars, der kleine Eisbär, na década de 1990. A animação provou ser popular na Alemanha, mas sua versão dublada em inglês (intitulado The Little Polar Bear) também ganhou um bom número de seguidores ingleses. A animação foi revivida mais tarde entre 2001 e 2003. Para seu primeiro filme, o subtitulado Der Kinofilm, Warner Bros. e o estúdio de animação compraram os direitos para adaptar os livros infantis em um longa-metragem, lançada em 2001. Após o sucesso do recurso, vários recursos diretos para vídeo foram lançados, um dos novos personagens incluídos foi um filhote de tigre. Em 2005, um outro filme, (em alemão: Der kleine Eisbär 2: Die geheimnisvolle Insel) foi lançado e também provou ser bem sucedido. (pt) |
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| dbp:company | Rothkirch/Kringel Cartoon Films (en) |
| dbp:country | Germany (en) Germany, United Kingdom (en) |
| dbp:creator | Hans de Beer (en) |
| dbp:director | Piet De Rycker (en) Theo Kerp (en) |
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| dbp:editing | Bettina Behrens (en) Nadia Hennrich (en) |
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| dbp:music | Nigel Clarke (en) Michael Csányi-Wills (en) |
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| dbp:originalairdate | 1994-02-08 (xsd:date) |
| dbp:producer | Willi Geike (en) Theresa Plummer Andrews (en) |
| dbp:released | 2001-10-04 (xsd:date) |
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| dbp:shortsummary | Lars stumbles across a rare flower and patiently waits for it to grow. Lena and Peeps help Lars protect the flower. (en) When Lena and Peeps visit Lars to play, they discover him lying in his secret playing den, groaning. After Lars tells them he has stomach ache, Lena and Peeps try to cure and distract him. However, later Lena starts to suspect that Lars is simply pretending to be sick in order to get his friends' attention. (en) Lars ventures into the Polar Station. Lena is almost caught by a man, but Lena and Lars make their escape back to the safety of their home. (en) While exploring, Lars, Lena and Peeps plunge deep into an ice grotto. They make a hasty exit as the cave collapses and Orca takes them to safety. (en) While swimming, Lars is caught in a fish net and loaded onto a fishing freighter. He is met by the ship's cat Nemo, who helps him off the ship. (en) Lars, Lena and Peeps find a Treasure Chest hidden beneath a thick layer of snow. Inside the chest they see a scrapbook which contains various pictures of themselves! Lars and Lena start fighting over who the treasure belongs to, but eventually manage to share the contains with each other, then bury them once again. (en) Lars tells his friends about an old legend in which a very rare ray of sunlight would shine down upon an old igloo. Lars, Lena and Peeps follow him to the igloo, and after scaring away a large group of noisy birds, the discover the igloo, where the ray of sunlight shines down on them through a hole in the igloo remains. (en) Lars awakens his friends at midnight to pull various pranks on the seagulls, who are sleeping on top of the floating buoy. (en) In a game of hide n' seek, Lena and Peeps get caught in a cage trap. Lars manages to release them and take them to safety from the hunting dogs. (en) Lars and Brownie are captured by a hunter. Lars releases himself and Brownie, then they release all the other captured animals, before making their way home. (en) Lena and Peeps are carried off into an ice labyrinth surrounded by thick fog. As Lars finds them, the fog disperses. (en) Lars invites Lena and Peeps to play along with his musical number. (en) Lars is carried across the sea on a drifting sheet of ice, until he reaches an island. There he makes friends with Hippo and is given a lift home by Orca. (en) One day when Lars arrives home, he meets a younger Polar Bear, Björn, who starts bullying him. Daddy Polar Bear interrupts their fighting and starts a competition to see who is stronger. Björn swims down a chasm into a shipwreck to recover an anchor, but gets stuck inside a hole in the wreckage. Lars saves Björn from suffocation and the two become friends. (en) While playing in the snow, Lars meets Lena. They both get trapped in a snow storm, but Lars manages to find his way home. (en) On a journey to find fish, Lars comes across a wooden barrel full of dried herrings. Lena helps Lars to move it, to provide food for Daddy and Mummy Polar Bear. (en) Lars stumbles across a goose egg and warms it, till out hatches a gosling he names Peeps. (en) Lars goes to the forest to get some honey medicine for his ill parents. Daddy Brown Bear provides the medicine and Brownie accompanies Lars back home. (en) Lars, Lena and Peeps discover a big sled dog race, and help out a small Husky when his sled gets stuck in an ice crack. (en) Brownie introduces Lars to his two younger siblings. Though, they aren't nice to Lars and tease him to the point where the poor Lars breaks down in tears. Brownie spanks his two brothers, but then Lars, Brownie and his brothers are being chased by a hunter on a snow mobile. They hide in the snow in order to camouflage themselves. One of the two little Brown Bears comments that being a white bear isn't so bad after all. (en) As Lars examines a weather balloon, Peeps gets carried off in it. The seagulls save Peeps, while Lars recovers the seagull's bell clapper. (en) Lars and Brownie catch some fish in the forest. Brownie shows Lars how to make a campfire, but Lars is a little clumsy with it and hurts his paw. (en) While watching a herd of travelling Polar Bears, Lars meets the love of his life, an adorable Polar Bear girl named Oxana. They play together and fall in love with each other. The next day, Lars is shocked to discover that Oxana is part of the very same travelling herd he watched the day prior, and watches her disappear while she sits on the back of one of the elder bears. Oxana promises Lars she will return once the winter season arrives, but the poor Lars is still saddened by their unexpected divorce. (en) Lena finds a deserted boat and with Lars and Peeps on board, she sails the sea. After fighting over a life belt, Lars jumps overboard with it and then saves Lena and Peeps from being crushed between two icebergs. (en) In the icy land of the North Pole, Lars, Lena and Peeps come across a box, and find a teddy bear. Then they start playing house with it, but Peeps feels left out when trying to join in the fun. (en) Lars' friend the Brown Bear Brownie shows Lars a towering tree where the two friends try to gather honey from inside the comb, then escape as the angry bees chase them down. Lars and Brownie hide in a cave behind a waterfall. (en) |
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| dbp:themeMusicComposer | Manfred Schoof (en) |
| dbp:title | The Book (en) The Mission (en) The Hunter (en) In Love (en) The Trap (en) The Egg (en) The Competition (en) The Labyrinth (en) The Barrel (en) The Boat (en) The Teddy Bear (en) The Net (en) The Flower (en) The Concert (en) The Ice Cave (en) The White Bear (en) Playing Tricks (en) Stomach Ache (en) The Camp Fire (en) The Honeycomb (en) The Ice Floe (en) The Polar Night (en) The Polar Station (en) The Sled Dog (en) The Snow Storm (en) The Weather Balloon (en) |
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| dbp:writer | Piet De Rycker (en) Bert Schrickel (en) Birgit Quastenberg (en) Hans de Beer (en) Josef Schelle (en) Thomas Wittenburg (en) |
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| rdfs:comment | The Little Polar Bear (in Dutch: Lars de kleine ijsbeer) is a franchise about a polar bear cub named Lars who first starred in a number of books written by Dutch author, . The first of several animated adaptations of the books is a Japanese original video animation, released on April 28, 1990, with animation production by I.G Tatsunoko (now known as Production I.G). It later became an animated TV series for BBC TV and WDR Lars, der kleine Eisbär, in the 1990s. The show proved to be popular in Germany. (en) The Little Polar Bear (em neerlandês: Lars de kleine ijsbeer; em português: Lars, O Ursinho Polar) é uma franquia sobre um filhote de urso polar chamado Lars que primeiro estrelou em vários livros escritos por um autor holandês, . A primeira de várias adaptações animadas dos livros é uma animação japonesa em Original Video Animation, lançada em 28 de abril de 1990, com produção de animação da I.G Tatsunoko (agora conhecida como Production I.G). (pt) |
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