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Tintin on the Moon


Tintin on the Moon is a video game loosely based on the "Destination Moon" and "Explorers on the Moon" comic books from "The Adventures of Tintin", the series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. It is a first person shoot 'em up/side scroller and the first "Tintin" video game. This video game was originally made by Infogrames for various home platforms in 1987 and was converted to MS-DOS by Probe Entertainment in 1989. The game's storyline is based loosely on the plot of the "
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the type of space suit that would be used in future Moon exploration, although his portrayal of the type of rocket that was actually used was a long way off the mark". The moon rocket is based on the German V-2 rockets. In his youth, Hergé admired and suggested that a number of images within "Tintin in the Land of the Soviets" reflected this influence, particularly the pictures of animals. , the Art Deco designer, also affected early Tintin adventures: "His influence can be detected at the beginning
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issued by Belgian Post on 31 December 2001: Tintin in a pith helmet and a souvenir sheet with a single stamp in the center. The stamps were jointly issued in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In 2004, Belgian Post celebrated its own seventy-fifth anniversary, as well as the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of "Explorers on the Moon", and the thirty-fifth anniversary of the moon landings with a souvenir sheet of five stamps based upon the "Explorers on the Moon" adventure. To celebrate the
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complex is last seen at the end of "Explorers on the Moon" and is never again seen in the Tintin series. In "Destination Moon", the Sprodj Atomic Research Centre invites Professor Calculus to head its space division, and later Tintin and Captain Haddock to be part of the moon mission. In "The Calculus Affair", Syldavia's secret agents compete with archrival Bordurian agents to kidnap Professor Calculus and obtain the secrets to develop sound-based weapons. The Blushtika, meaning "Goat Dance Twisting", as
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he briefly becoming a satellite of the asteroid Adonis (at which point, Professor Calculus humorously says he will tell Earth that Adonis has a new satellite by the name of Haddock) but Tintin is able to rescue him. The rocket lands in the Hipparchus Crater, with Tintin being the first human to step on the Moon. Next day, Calculus and Wolff set up optical instruments to begin observational work on the Moon while Tintin and Haddock build the Moon tank. Two days later, Haddock, Wolff and Tintin take the Moon
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second to be adapted in the second animated series; it was directed by Ray Goossens and written by Greg, a well-known cartoonist who was to become editor-in-chief of "Tintin" magazine. In 1991, a second animated series based upon "The Adventures of Tintin" was produced, this time as a collaboration between the French studio Ellipse and the Canadian animation company Nelvana. "Explorers on the Moon" was the fifteenth story to be adapted and was divided into two twenty-minute episodes. Directed
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model of the moon rocket (Destination Moon and Explorers on the Moon) was released on 15 October. In 200, a one-off stamp of Tintin moving a puppet of Hergé was released in 2000. In February 2004, the Belgian post office released a set of five stamps to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Tintin, the 50th anniversary of the book "Explorers on the Moon" and the 35th anniversary of Neil Armstrong's moon landing. In 2007, to celebrate the centenary of Hergé, the Belgian post office released
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; it was directed by Ray Goossens and written by Greg, a well-known cartoonist who was to become editor-in-chief of "Tintin" magazine. In 1991, a second animated series based upon "The Adventures of Tintin" was produced, this time as a collaboration between the French studio Ellipse and the Canadian animation company Nelvana. "Destination Moon" was the fourteenth story to be adapted and was divided into two twenty-minute episodes. Directed by Stéphane Bernasconi, the series has been praised for being
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fact, Jorgen is one of a number of Syldavian conspirators seeking to overthrow the king, in collaboration with the neighbouring republic of Borduria. As such, the colonel is in direct contact with the Central Committee of the revolutionary Iron Guard movement. Tintin delivers a humiliating knockout punch to him shortly before the Bordurian plot is foiled. Colonel Jorgen returns in "Destination Moon" and confronts Tintin again in "Explorers on the Moon", having stowed away on the moon rocket that Tintin and his friends are piloting. Frank Wolff was
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tape recorder. He was imprisoned along with Castafiore and Irma in "Tintin and the Picaros", before being freed by Tintin. His name is made up of a humorous reference to two well-known composers: Igor Stravinsky and Richard Wagner. Frank Wolff is the rocket engineer who assists Professor Calculus during the Syldavian expedition to the moon ("Destination Moon" and "Explorers on the Moon"). In an interview, Hergé described him as clever, stating he had a PhD in Mathematics with Mechanics and a BEng
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Explorers on the Moon


Explorers on the Moon () is the seventeenth volume of "The Adventures of Tintin", the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The story was serialised weekly in Belgium's "Tintin" magazine from October 1952 to December 1953 before being published in a collected volume by Casterman in 1954. Completing a story arc begun in the preceding volume, "Destination Moon" (1953), the narrative tells of the young reporter Tintin, his dog Snowy, and friends Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus, and Thomson and Thompson who
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told he would be a journalist; Jorgen reveals his true plan to steal the rocket when on the moon. When most of the group leaves on the moon-tank, Jorgen knocks Tintin out from behind, ties him up, and leaves him on a lower deck. He forces Wolff to help him maroon the others on the moon, but is prevented from doing so by Tintin, who severs the wires to the engine and holds Jorgen at gunpoint. Jorgen escapes custody during the return flight and attempts to kill the rocket
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who are initially believed to be the intruders. Tintin sets out to locate the spies, telling Haddock to follow from the base, as he suspects a mole is on the inside. Wolff follows Haddock out of suspicion. Tintin catches one of the paratroopers during an exchange at an air vent, but is shot by the other before he is able to do anything. Simultaneously, the base experiences a temporary power outage, and confusion ensues, with neither Haddock nor Wolff capable of explaining clearly what happened. This incident confirms the
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September 1941 lunar eclipse


A partial lunar eclipse took place on Friday, September 5, 1941. It was a shallow partial lunar eclipse, with less than 10% of the Moon covered in Earth's shadow. Aug 31, 1941 = Sunday Sep 1, 1941 = Monday Sep 2, 1941 = Tuesday Sep 3, 1941 = Wednesday Sep 4, 1941 = Thursday Sep 5, 1941 = Friday Sep 6, 1941 = Saturday Sep 7, 1941 = Sunday Sep 8, 1941 = Monday Sep 9, 1941 = Tuesday Sep 10, 1941
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influenced by the play he adapted for Hergé in the 1940s, ("Mr. Boullock's Disappearance"). Bernard Heuvelmans, a cryptozoologist who had helped Hergé envision lunar exploration for the two-part "Destination Moon" and "Explorers on the Moon", had given him a copy of his book ("On the Trail of Unknown Animals") in 1955, inscribing on the inside the suggestion that one day Tintin should meet the Yeti. By 1958, Hergé decided that Tibet would be the setting of Tintin
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Moon", while the series itself became a defining part of the Franco-Belgian comics tradition. Critics have praised the illustrative detail of the book, but have expressed mixed views of the narrative. The story was adapted for both the 1957 Belvision animated series, "Hergé's Adventures of Tintin", and for the 1991 animated series "The Adventures of Tintin" by Ellipse and Nelvana. Tintin, Snowy, and Captain Haddock travel to join Professor Calculus, who has been commissioned by the Syldavian government to secretly build a
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Belgian comics tradition. Critics have praised the illustrative detail of the book, but have expressed mixed views of the story. The volume was adapted for both the 1957 Belvision animated series, "Hergé's Adventures of Tintin", and for the 1991 animated series "The Adventures of Tintin" by Ellipse and Nelvana. Professor Calculus, Tintin, Snowy, Captain Haddock, and Calculus' assistant Frank Wolff are aboard an atomic rocket-powered spacecraft leaving the Earth bound for the Moon. Soon after takeoff they discover that the detectives
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him on his way with fresh supplies. His servant shows Tintin an "Adventures of Tintin" book that Pasha owns. The book title shown to Tintin has changed over the years; it was originally "Tintin in America", it became "Tintin in the Congo" at one point, and eventually settled on "Destination Moon"—the most recently published title at the time but, confusingly, takes place after the events in "Cigars of the Pharaoh". In "The Red Sea Sharks", when Emir Ben Kalish Ezab
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Destination Moon (comics)


Destination Moon () is the sixteenth volume of "The Adventures of Tintin", the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The story was initially serialised weekly in Belgium's "Tintin" magazine from March to September 1950 before being published in a collected volume by Casterman in 1953. The plot tells of young reporter Tintin and his friend Captain Haddock who receive an invitation from Professor Calculus to come to Syldavia, where Calculus is working on a top-secret project in a secure government facility to plan a manned mission to the
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. Sometimes the redrawings introduced problems with the chronological order, one example is when Sheik Patrash Pasha presents a copy of "Destination Moon" in "Cigars of the Fat Pharaoh"—"Destination Moon" was published almost 20 years after "Cigars of the Fat Pharaoh". The BBC produced two series of Tintin radio dramatisations by Simon Eastwood. They were first broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in 1992 and 1993. The cast featured Richard Pearce as Tintin, Andrew Sachs as Snowy, Leo McKern as Captain Haddock (Lionel Jeffries in series 2)
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40 of "Destination Moon", a nod to Jacobs' inclusion of a reference to Hergé in one of his "Blake and Mortimer" mysteries, "The Mystery of the Great Pyramid" (1954). Hergé announced the upcoming story with two consecutive covers of "Tintin" magazine each depicting the Moon. The story began serialisation in the Belgian "Tintin" magazine from 30 March 1950, in the French language. It then began serialisation over the border in France, in that country's edition of the magazine,
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Mr. Bohlwinkel, is the head of a major banking organisation who uses unethical methods to delay the progress of Tintin and Haddock's ship. These include sabotage with dynamite and fake distress messages. Controversially, in his original version, Hergé gave the man a Jewish-sounding name and had him based in New York. These were changed in later editions. In his stories produced after World War II, Hergé paused his attacks on big business as he focussed more on espionage (the Moon adventures and "The Calculus Affair")
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the 50th anniversary of the publication of Tintin's first adventure on 29 September 1979, featuring Tintin and Snowy looking through a magnifying glass at several stamps. In 1999, a nine-stamp block celebrating ten years of the Belgian Comic Strip Center was issued, with the center stamp a photo of Tintin's famous moon rocket that dominates the Comic Strip Center's entry hall. To mark the end of the Belgian Franc and to celebrate the seventieth anniversary of the publication of "Tintin in the Congo", two more stamps were
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Hergé


served a prison sentence for working at "Le Nouveau Journal" during the occupation. Hergé had developed the idea of setting an "Adventure of Tintin" on the moon while producing "Prisoners of the Sun". He began serialisation of "Destination Moon", the first of a two part arc followed by "Explorers on the Moon", in "Tintin" magazine in March 1950. In September 1950, Hergé broke off the story, feeling the need for a break from work, having fallen back into clinical depression
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attempted annexation appearing in "King Ottokar's Sceptre". This situation parallels the Italian conquest of Albania, and that of Czechoslovakia and Austria by expansionist Nazi Germany prior to World War II. Hergé's use of research would include months of preparation for Tintin's voyage to the moon in the two-part storyline spread across "Destination Moon" and "Explorers on the Moon". His research for the storyline was noted in "New Scientist": "The considerable research undertaken by Hergé enabled him to come very close to
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"Destination Moon" and "Explorers on the Moon". He was the man who offered to help Frank Wolff out of his gambling debts in exchange for information on the rocket programme: Miller is shown in one panel checking a list of personnel at the Centre and finds Wolff's name among them. Miller is first seen on the plane to Syldavia in "Destination Moon". He was seated in the row ahead of Tintin and Captain Haddock and was astonished to hear the Captain mention the name "Calculus", showing
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Ridgewell lives with them. Despite a reputation for ferocity, the Arumbayas prove to be relatively civil when Tintin encounters them. They casually explain that their bad reputation may be due to the actions of their neighbours, the Rumbabas, who behead anyone who passes their way. Mr. Baxter is the Director General of the Sprodj Atomic Research Centre, appearing in "Destination Moon" and "Explorers on the Moon". He is humble, refusing to go to the Moon in Captain Haddock's place when it is offered it to him
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Tintin (character)


Ear") or too angry when informing Captain Haddock that he nearly cost them their lives (in "Explorers on the Moon"). However, as Michael Farr observed, Tintin has "tremendous spirit" and, in "Tintin in Tibet", was appropriately given the name Great Heart. By turns, Tintin is innocent, politically crusading, escapist, and finally cynical. If he had perhaps too much of the goody-goody about him, at least he was not priggish; Hergé admitting as much, saying
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of 5000. A silver medallion was minted in 2004 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Tintin book "Explorers on the Moon", again in a limited run, this time of 10,000. It quickly sold out. In 2004, Belgium minted a limited edition commemorative euro coin featuring Tintin and Snowy celebrating the 75th anniversary of Tintin's first adventure in January 2004. Although it has a face value of €10, it is, as with other commemorative euro coins, legal tender only in the country in which it was
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Tintin – Le Temple du Soleil – Le Spectacle Musical


little boat that Tintin had made for him. Tintin reads the newspaper and finds their salvation. He tells the Incan guard that they wish to die in eighteen days' time. When the day comes, they are bound to the stake on the funeral pyre whilst a ceremony takes place. Thomson and Thompson arrive, having finally found Calculus; they are also tied up. As they are about to be sacrificed, Tintin "commands" the Sun; everything goes dark as the Moon moves in front of the Sun's face
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Syldavia


Syldavia is a fictional country in "The Adventures of Tintin", the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. It is located in the Balkans and has a rivalry with the fictional neighbouring country of Borduria. Syldavia is depicted in "King Ottokar's Sceptre", "Destination Moon", "Tintin and the Lake of Sharks", and "The Calculus Affair", and is mentioned in "Tintin and the Picaros". Syldavia is a monarchy, ruled at the time of "King Ottokar's Sceptre" by King
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Tintin (character)


permanent house guest in the stately Marlinspike Hall with retired mariner Captain Haddock and the scientist Professor Calculus. Tintin occupies all of his time with his friends, exploring the bottom of the sea, the tops of the mountains, and the surface of the Moon (sixteen years before astronaut Neil Armstrong). Through it all, Tintin finds himself cast in the role of international social crusader, sticking up for the underdog and looking after those less fortunate than himself. From the first volume onward, Hergé depicted Tintin as being adept at
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King Ottokar's Sceptre


Ottokar's Sceptre" introduced the recurring character of Bianca Castafiore to the series, who appears alongside her pianist Igor Wagner. It also witnessed the introduction of antagonist Colonel Jorgen, who reappears in the later Tintin adventures "Destination Moon" and its sequel "Explorers on the Moon". The Alembick brothers' inclusion echoes the Balthazar brothers' inclusion in "The Broken Ear". After the conclusion of "King Ottokar's Sceptre", Hergé continued "The Adventures of Tintin" with "Land of Black Gold" until Germany
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Centre's suspicions that the paratroopers were agents of a foreign power, but Tintin fears that efforts to trace any leaked information would be futile. The rocket is successfully launched and orbits the Moon as planned, but on its return it is intercepted by the aforementioned foreign power, who have used the leaked information concerning the rocket's radio control. However, Tintin had anticipated this and asked Calculus to rig a self-destruct mechanism for the rocket, and the Centre destroys the rocket to prevent it from falling into enemy hands.
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List of Tintin home video releases


box sets (with all discs individually available), with French and English language tracks with subtitles. Each DVD contains two episodes, arranged in two boxed sets of ten episodes each. "Tintin in America" is not planned for release. Except for the episodes which, joined together, form story arcs ("The Secret of the Unicorn"/"Red Rackham's Treasure", "The Seven Crystal Balls"/"Prisoners of the Sun" and "Destination Moon"/"Explorers on the Moon"), the episodes have no specific order on the discs. It
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to this, thinking that predicting the end of mankind would make him famous. Initially disappointed that the meteor has missed the Earth, Phostle consoles himself by naming an unknown metal fallen from the meteor after himself: "phostlite". He then leads an expedition of scientists to follow Tintin and Captain Haddock to attempt to retrieve the fallen phostlite from the sea. Phostle was to return in "Destination Moon" and "Explorers on the Moon" as a villain, but that early draft by Bernard Heuvelmans was abandoned by Hergé.
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; instead, Tintin travels to Borduria to rescue Calculus, "not to fight or expose totalitarianism". Calculus became "a genius compromised", with his role being a "counter-position to, or flip-side of, the one he represented in the moon books". When Tintin and Haddock arrive in Borduria, they are ""treated" as honoured guests but are in fact prisoners of the police state", a reversal of the situation in "The Blue Lotus" in which Tintin believes himself a
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7-03 22/Sep/88 Benny Bin (10 min) 82 7-04 29/Sep/88 Little Bottle Floats Away (10 min) 83 7-05 06/Oct/88 Button Moon Talent Show (10 min) 84 7-06 13/Oct/88 Mr and Mrs Spoon's Anniversary (10min) 85 7-07 20/Oct/88 Mice Play On Button Moon (10 min) 86 7-08 27/Oct/88 Dotty Teapot (10 min) 87 7-09 03/Nov/88 Rag Doll Moves House (10
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driving or fixing any mechanical vehicle that he comes across, including cars, motorcycles, aeroplanes, and tanks. Given the opportunity, Tintin is at ease driving any automobile, has driven a moon tank, and is comfortable with every aspect of aviation. He is also a skilled radio operator with knowledge of Morse code. He packs a solid punch to a villain's jaw when necessary, demonstrates impressive swimming skills, and is a crack shot. He proves himself a capable engineer and scientist during his adventure to the Moon.
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war stories set in Syldavia: he does not appear at the launching of the moon rocket in "Destination Moon" and Tintin does not call on him for help when his friend Professor Calculus is kidnapped by Bordurian and later Syldavian agents in "The Calculus Affair". The post-war Syldavia may no longer be a monarchy; the latter "Adventures" set after World War II came at a time when various Balkan models for the fictional Syldavia had now been overthrown and their rulers exiled. Ramó Nash is an artist and
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to other earlier stories through Tintin reminiscing. It mentions "Tintin in the Congo", "The Crab with the Golden Claws" and "The Red Sea Sharks". Season 1: "Objective Moon" (22 episodes) Season 2: "The Crab with the Golden Claws" (17 episodes) Season 3: "The Secret of the Unicorn" (10 episodes) Season 4: "Red Rackham's Treasure" (17 episodes) Season 5: "The Star of Mystery" (11 episodes) Season
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the Moon" in 1989. The same company released a platformer video game titled "Tintin in Tibet" in 1995 for the Super NES and Mega Drive/Genesis. Another platformer from Infogrames titled "Prisoners of the Sun" was released the following year for the Super NES, PC, and Game Boy Color. As computer graphics technology improved, video game experiences improved. In 2001, Tintin became 3D in a game called "", released by Infogrames for the PC and PlayStation. Then in 2011, an action-
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territory. However, Tintin and Calculus had expected this and destroyed the rocket before it could land. Miller threatened to have Wolff killed, as he suspected him of double-crossing him, but refrained when it was announced that a manned rocket was to go to the moon. Miller arranged for Colonel Jorgen, an old enemy of Tintin's, to be smuggled aboard. Ultimately though, his attempt to control the rocket failed—his agents Jorgen and Wolff both perishing in the process. Miller is last seen cursing the rocket
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Land of Black Gold


took a three-month break. At this point, Hergé was depressed and suffering from a range of physical ailments, including boils and eczema on his hands. Although fed up with "The Adventures of Tintin", he felt great pressure on him to continue producing the series for "Tintin" magazine. Hergé was planning on creating a story in which Tintin travels to the moon, but his wife Germaine and close friend Marcel Dehaye both advised him to revive "Land of Black Gold" instead, recognising that it would
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tank to explore some stalactite caves in the direction of the Ptolemaeus Crater; inside a cave Snowy slips into an ice-covered chasm, but Tintin rescues him. Later aboard the ship, Tintin is overwhelmed by a third stowaway, Colonel Jorgen, a spy who had been smuggled aboard by Wolff, who has been blackmailed by a foreign power for which Jorgen works. With Wolff's help, Jorgen seeks to hijack the ship and return it to Earth, but is foiled by Tintin through emergency sabotage that cuts power to the
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Tintin and I


Tintin and I (French: Tintin et moi, also known as Tintin and Me) is a 2003 documentary by Anders Høgsbro Østergaard, about Belgian writer-artist Georges Remi, better known as Hergé, and his creation Tintin. The film is a co-production of Denmark, Belgium, France, and Switzerland. The film is based on Numa Sadoul's revealing interviews with Hergé from the 1970s, and goes into detail about Hergé's life and how the success of Tintin affected it. The film is based strongly around
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Button Moon


Dance (10 min) 75 6-10 10/Mar/87 Bobbing Bottle (10 min) 76 6-11 17/Mar/87 Cows On Button Moon (10 min) 77 6-12 24/Mar/87 Cinders And The Magic Beans (10 min) 78 6-13 31/Mar/87 Queenie Jelly Loses Her Cherries (10 min) Series 7 (1988) 79 7-01 08/Sep/88 Button boat Race (10 min) 80 7-02 15/Sep/88 Vacuum Cleaner For Sale (10 min) 81
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completed its television series based upon the Tintin stories; it was directed by Eddie Lateste and featured a musical score by the critically acclaimed composer François Rauber. The adaptation is mostly faithful, although the "Seven Crystal Balls" portion of the story was heavily condensed. "Tintin and the Lake of Sharks" () (1972), the second traditional animation "Tintin" film and the last Tintin release for nearly 40 years, it was based on an original script by Greg and directed by Raymond Leblanc. Belvision's second
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main villain in "Tintin in the Congo" and "Tintin in America". In "Tintin in the Congo", he runs a criminal diamond smuggling operation, trying to gain control of African diamond production. He orders thugs to face Tintin in "Tintin in America". Capone's main rival in Chicago is Bobby Smiles. Tintin arrests 355 members of Capone's Central Syndicate of Chicago Gangsters. Capone himself is tied up by Tintin and arrested, but he escapes. The character Al Capone is based on the real
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on the Moon), the trip to the moon was all about rescuing Snowy, who was trapped in the (now white) test rocket. Captain Haddock's whiskey is replaced with coffee, and when he is pulled into orbit, he is not drunk, but his feet are hurting, so he takes his metal boots off. The tank is replaced with a hovering car called "the moon mobile". Professor Calculus, Haddock, and Thomson and Thompson explore the dark side of the moon in it but get trapped
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Tintin in the Land of the Soviets", the island from "The Black Island" and the rocket from "Destination Moon". Also visible are "Tintin in Tibet", "The Shooting Star", "The Crab with the Golden Claws" and "Cigars of the Pharaoh". Marge's gym, Shapes, is a parody of Curves, although there is an actual fitness chain in the Tampa, Florida, area known as Shapes. Art Spiegelman's mask, which he wears when attacking the Comic Book
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as he often did in the original books. Most of the time he is just a passing figure in the street, such as when he is checking his watch in "The Blue Lotus" or a reporter ("The Broken Ear") or a technician ("Explorers on the Moon"). These brief appearances, however, are not sporadic as he is featured in all of the TV episodes. His letter box can even be seen next to Tintin's in "The Crab with the Golden Claws".
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and often deal with traveling through the galaxy, "delivered in a robotic deadpan vocals." Tracks such as "A Darkness In My Soul" (inspired by the Dean Koontz novel of the same name), "Destination Moon" (based on "The Adventures of Tintin" novel of the same name), and "Tenth Planet" were also considered as "dark, atmospheric and atypical", because they feature guitar along with synthesizers and drum machines. The album was named number 2 on Fact magazine's list
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Tintin: Destination Adventure


Tintin: Destination Adventure is a video game loosely based on the series "The Adventures of Tintin", the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. It was released for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation in Europe in late 2001. The gameplay is similar to the previous two Tintin games ("Prisoners of the Sun" and "Tintin in Tibet"), with the exception in some parts where the player can operate vehicles. Aside from this the only other enhancement is the use of full 3D for the game. "Tintin:
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The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (video game)


The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (known as The Adventures of Tintin: The Game in North America) is an action-adventure, platforming video game based on the film "", which is based on the series "The Adventures of Tintin", the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The game was released for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation 3, Wii and Xbox 360 on 21 October 2011 in Europe, on 1 December in Australia and on 6 December in North America. The
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would be too old to go, he angrily declares his participation. The crew finally board the rocket, and later lose consciousness as the rocket successfully takes off due to the sudden g-force. Despite attempting to make contact, the ground crew are unable to get through, and the book ends with the rocket flying towards the Moon while the ground crew repeatedly calls, "Moon Rocket, are you receiving me?". Hergé first devised the idea of sending Tintin on a mission to the Moon while he was working
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Destination Moon (comics)


a message stating that "Your help, your knowledge, has been invaluable, enabling me to get my little characters to the Moon... and to bring them back safe and sound." An English-language translation of the book was published in 1959. Marking the Apollo 11 Moon landings in 1969, Hergé produced an illustration in which NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong has just arrived on the Moon, only to be greeted by Tintin, Snowy, Haddock, and Calculus carrying roses and a sign welcoming him. That same year,
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Syldavia


Work at the centre, carried out by a large team of international physicists recruited by the Syldavian government, involves research into protection from the effects of nuclear weapons and is the base for the Syldavian space program. The facility, which seems to be entirely self-sufficient, is administered by the Director, Mr. Baxter. The Sprodj Centre has its own atomic pile for processing uranium into plutonium and has vast facilities for the research and construction of the rocket-ship which carries Tintin and his colleagues to the moon. The gargantuan
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Tintin coins


This is a list of commemorative coins, released in Belgium, honoring "The Adventures of Tintin", the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Released on 4 January. A 10 euro silver coin that commemorates his 75th anniversary. It was a limited run of 50,000 and they were initially sold for 31 euros each. They are legal tender only in Belgium. Released in late June. A 10 euro coin that commemorates the 50th anniversary of the book "Explorers on the Moon". Limited run of 10,000. Commemorates the
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believed that the two-part story "belongs" to Calculus as his "cosmic vision moves the story forward". They further expressed the opinion that Wolff was a unique character in the "Adventures of Tintin", suggesting that he is akin to a character from a John le Carré novel. Referring specifically to "Explorers on the Moon", they opined that it was "a true epic of the human imagination", believing that its depiction of the Moon has "withstood the test of time" more than other
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, in the 1955 version this was changed to the earlier "Tintin in the Congo", and Hergé would change it again for subsequent printings, this time to "Destination Moon" (1953), an "Adventure" set chronologically after "Cigars". Benoît Peeters exclaimed that with this scene, the reader can imagine Tintin's surprise at encountering an adventure he had not yet had and which included the characters of Captain Haddock and Cuthbert Calculus whom he had not yet met. Another anachronism in this version appears when Snowy
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. Other fictional lands include Khemed on the Arabian Peninsula and San Theodoros, São Rico, and Nuevo Rico in South America, as well as the kingdom of Gaipajama in India. Apart from these fictitious locations, Tintin also visits real places such as Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, Belgian Congo, Peru, India, Egypt, Indonesia, Nepal, Tibet, and China. Other actual locales used were the Sahara Desert, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Moon. Hergé's extensive research
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Professor Calculus


Professor Cuthbert Calculus ( , meaning "Professor Tryphon Sunflower"), is a fictional character in "The Adventures of Tintin", the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. He is Tintin's friend, an absent-minded professor and half-deaf physicist, who invents many sophisticated devices used in the series, such as a one-person shark-shaped submarine, the Moon rocket, and an ultrasound weapon. Calculus's deafness is a frequent source of humour, as he repeats back what he thinks he has heard
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Artistically, the series chose a constant style, unlike in the books. In the books, the images had been drawn over the course of 47 years, during which Hergé's style developed considerably. However, later televised episodes, such as the "Moon Story" and "Tintin in America," clearly demonstrated the artists' development during the course of the production of the television series. It was filmed with English language narration, but all visuals (road signs, posters, and settings) remained in French. Certain
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whiskey flask in order to set up a scene in which Snowy is tempted to lap up some spilled whiskey and subsequently falls over a cliff. In "Tintin and the Picaros", Haddock is the only person taking wine with dinner, foreshadowing the use of Calculus' tablets to cure the drunken Picaros. Haddock is also seen drinking in "The Calculus Affair" and in "Explorers on the Moon", setting up the scene where he leaves the rocket in a drunken state. However, he keeps the bottle in the
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Tintin postage stamps


a series of 25 stamps, 24 of which depict one of the album covers each in a different language, and one showing a picture of Hergé. A set of two stamps was released in September 1999. Each showed a scene from the book "Explorers on the Moon". A one-off stamp and a minisheet was released on March 11, 2000. In 2007, a set of six stamps, each depicting one of the characters - Tintin and Snowy, Professor Calculus, Captain Haddock, Thomson and Thompson,
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the Unicorn"-"Red Rackham's Treasure", "nor the supernatural quality" of "The Seven Crystal Balls"-"Prisoners of the Sun". In his psychoanalytical study of the "Adventures of Tintin", the literary critic Jean-Marie Apostolidès praised the "Destination Moon"-"Explorers on the Moon" story arc for its "meticulous attention to scientific facts", but added that this had also resulted in the story's "rather pedagogical tone". He added that in these stories, the main division was "no longer Good and Evil" as
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Explorers on the Moon


are aboard humanity's first manned rocket mission to the Moon. Developed in part through the suggestions of Hergé's friends Bernard Heuvelmans and Jacques Van Melkebeke, "Explorers on the Moon" was produced following Hergé's extensive research into the possibility of human space travel – a feat that had yet to be achieved – with the cartoonist seeking for the work to be as realistic as possible. Hergé continued "The Adventures of Tintin" with "The Calculus Affair", while the series itself became a defining part of the Franco-
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that he was already planning to take over the moon programme that Calculus was working on. He discreetly followed Tintin and Haddock through Klow airport but pulled back when he realised that they were being escorted by Zepo, the local secret police. With an associate known as the Baron, he then set about parachuting agents into the area of the Centre and obtaining the plans for the experimental unmanned rocket X-FLR6. When X-FLR6 was launched, Miller's technicians were able to intercept it and divert the rocket to their own
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List of The Adventures of Tintin characters


In 2000, on one episode of the French-language version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?", 73 percent of the voting audience correctly identified Dr. Patella () as the doctor who treated Captain Haddock in "Explorers on the Moon". This led to allegations that the show was rigged: one Tintin fan questioned how such a large portion of the audience could pick from four options the correct answer, especially given Dr. Patella's very minor role in the series. A psychoanalyst postulated that children remember proper
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have been expanded, and Haddock is captured with Calculus in "Darkol Prison". Alfredo Topolino and Colonel Sponsz have been renamed "Professor Bretzel" and "Colonel Brutel". More generally, Tintin's home is located in New York, Captain Haddock does not have a penchant for whiskey (and prefers drinking coffee instead), Professor Calculus does not have hearing problems, Thomson and Thompson are brothers and their moustaches are identical, and Snowy has a red collar. The first episode, "Objective Moon", makes reference
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story features a number of characters based on those from the original series by Hergé, notably Tintin himself and Captain Haddock (referred to only as 'the Captain' and depicted here as being Tintin's uncle), but not the original themes or plot. Snowy is featured on the cover - being especially visible on the first edition's cover - but not in the narrative. The story tracks Tintin's development from a disaffected, shoplifting youth to a revolutionary leader. The comic opens with Tintin arriving at the Captain's flat
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Tintin and the Golden Fleece


Tintin and the Golden Fleece (in the original French, "Tintin et le Mystère de La Toison d'or", meaning "Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece") is a film first released in France on 6 December 1961. Featuring characters from "The Adventures of Tintin" comic book series written and drawn by the Belgian writer-artist Hergé, it was a live-action film with actors made-up to look like the characters and featured an original storyline not based on any of the books. The
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Alcazar and General Tapioca in "Tintin and the Picaros". Apostolidès believed that "Flight 714 to Sydney" exhibited many of the same themes as were present in "Prisoners of the Sun" and the "Destination Moon"/"Explorers on the Moon" story arc. He compares the character of Carreidas with that of Baxter from the moon adventure, yet notes that the former is "craftier, more childish and inhumane, less interested in research itself than in technological applications", working for profit rather than the good of humanity. Turning
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colour scheme". Philippe Goddin praised the depiction of the rocket's landing as "a magnificent spectacle, well worth the double space spread given by Hergé", also highlighting what he perceived as the ending's "unprecedented dramatic tension". In his psychoanalytical study of the "Adventures of Tintin", the literary critic Jean-Marie Apostolidès praised the "Destination Moon"-"Explorers on the Moon" story arc for its "meticulous attention to scientific facts", but added that this had also resulted in the story's "rather pedagogical
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Tintin in America


suggested that strongman Arthur Saxon, who died a decade prior to serialization of "Tintin in America", may have influenced the character Billy Bolivar. One of the individuals that Hergé could have learned about through Blanchard's article was the Chicago-based American gangster Al Capone. In the preceding story, "Tintin in the Congo", Capone had been introduced as a character within the series. There, he was responsible for running a diamond smuggling racket that Tintin exposed, setting up for further confrontation in "Tintin in America
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it was Salaad who wired the initial order to have Tintin thrown overboard, but Tintin's escape prevented it. Later, Tintin discovers the base where the opium is stored is in Salaad's cellar, with an entrance behind a bookcase. Salaad tries to shoot Tintin but is knocked out when Snowy bites him, causing him to shoot a chandelier onto himself, and is arrested. It is later revealed that his activities went all the way to the Far East. Omar Ben Salaad's city Bagghar sounds like "bagarre",
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Tintin and the Blue Oranges


Tintin and the Blue Oranges (originally "Tintin et les Oranges bleues") is a 1964 French film directed by Philippe Condroyer and starring Jean-Pierre Talbot as Tintin. It was the second live-action movie, with an original story based on characters from the comic book series "The Adventures of Tintin", written and drawn by the Belgian artist Hergé. The accompanying book version is in photos and text rather than the usual comic-book style. The term "blue orange" is a moderately popular image among
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and "Tintin and the Black Island", based on "The Black Island" (1980–81); this second play later toured. A musical based on "The Seven Crystal Balls" and "Prisoners of the Sun" premièred on 15 September 2001 at the (City Theatre) in Antwerp, Belgium. It was entitled (""Tintin – Temple of the Sun (The Musical)"") and was broadcast on Canal Plus, before moving on to Charleroi in 2002 as . The Young Vic theatre company in
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started drawing with pencil at three or four. Living in a port town, he developed a strong interest for drawing sailing ships which carried into his professional career with his Cori, de Scheepsjongen series and other work. Following studies at the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts, De Moor started his career at the Afim animations studios. His first album was written in 1944 for "De Kleine Zondagsvriend". Beginning in March 1951, starting with "Destination Moon", he began a collaboration with Hergé on Tintin albums and Tintin-
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in Chemical Engineering, but also described him as feeble and quiet. Wolff is ultimately exposed as a spy who was coerced into helping an unnamed foreign power hijack the moon rockets he had helped build, after they learnt of his former compulsive gambling and heavy debt. After refusing to allow the enemy agent Colonel Jorgen to shoot the rest of the rocket crew, his struggle for Jorgen's gun resulted in the agent's accidental death. As the rocket ship is returning to Earth without enough oxygen for Tintin and his friends, Wolff
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Destination Moon (comics)


Tintin reasons that there must have been an inside spy who leaked information to the paratroopers, but no suspects are found. Preparations are made for the manned expedition to the moon, but after an argument with Haddock, in which Haddock accuses Calculus of "acting the goat" through the ear trumpet, Calculus becomes irate and angrily gives Haddock a forced tour of the Moon rocket. However, in doing so, Calculus forgets to look where he is going, falls down a ladder and suffers amnesia. When Calculus' memory fails
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series used traditional animation techniques and adhered closely to the original books, going so far as to transpose some frames from the original books directly to screen. In the episodes "Destination Moon" and "Explorers on the Moon", 3D animation was used for the moon rocket—an unusual step in 1989. Each frame of the animation was then printed and recopied onto celluloid, hand painted in gouache, and then laid onto a painted background. The rocket seen in the title sequence is animated using the same 3D techniques.
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between Professor Calculus and Captain Haddock over returning to the Moon, with the latter character arguing that "Man's proper place... is on dear old earth." Hergé first devised the idea of sending Tintin on a mission to the Moon while he was working on "Prisoners of the Sun" (1949). His decision to move into the field of science fiction might have been influenced by his friendly rivalry with his colleague Edgar P. Jacobs, who had recently had success with his own science fiction comic, "The Secret
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based on the city of Belo Horizonte in Brazil. His depiction of a public sculpture in the city was inspired by the work of sculptor Marcel Arnould, while the paintings that he designed for the Tapiocapolis hotel in which Tintin and Haddock stay are based on the work of Serge Poliakoff. Hergé incorporated many characters from previous "Adventures" into "Tintin and the Picaros"; these include Pablo, Ridgewell, and the Arumbaya tribe from "The Broken Ear", as well as Colonel Sponz from "The Calculus Affair".
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The Adventures of Tintin (TV series)


The Adventures of Tintin is a French/Belgian/Canadian/American animated television series based on "The Adventures of Tintin". It is based on a series of books written by Belgian cartoonist Georges Prosper Remi, known by the pen name Hergé (). It debuted in 1991; 39 half-hour episodes were produced over the course of its three seasons. The television series was directed by French director Stephen Bernasconi (with Peter Hudecki as the Canadian unit director. Hudecki was the primary director, but could not be
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hidden treasure. "Tintin and the Blue Oranges" () (1964), the second live action "Tintin" film, was released due to the success of the first. Again based upon an original script, once more by André Barret, it was directed by Philippe Condroyer and starred Talbot as Tintin and Jean Bouise as Haddock. The plot reveals a new invention, the blue orange, that can grow in the desert and solve world famines, devised by Calculus' friend, the Spanish Professor Zalamea. An emir
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The Lover (2016 film)


Festival, LA, USA., Aug 2016 7 - Feel the Reel International Film Festival, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Sep 2016 6 - 17th Woodstock Museum International Film Festival, in Woodstock, NY, USA, Sep 2016 5 - IndieWise Virtual International Film Festival, Miami, Florida, USA, Sept 2016 4 - Indigo Moon International Film Festival, Fayetteville, NC, USA, Oct 7-9, 2016 3 - Davis International Film Festival, Davice, California, USA, October 2016 2 - 10th El Ojo Cojo
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Company beginning in the 1970s, republished the albums based on the British translations. Alterations were made to vocabulary not well known to an American audience (such as gaol, tyre, saloon, and spanner). , Little, Brown and Company (owned by the Hachette Book Group USA) continues to publish Tintin books in the United States. Moulinsart's official Tintin app in Apple's App Store, launched with the release of the online version of "Tintin in the Congo" on 5 June 2015, features brand new English
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the world and back to Brussels again to unmask an impostor trying to lay claim to a missing millionaire's fortune. The plays were performed at the Théâtre Royal des Galeries in Brussels. The scripts of the plays are unfortunately lost. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, two Tintin plays were produced at the Arts Theatre in the West End of London, adapted by Geoffrey Case for the Unicorn Theatre Company. These were "Tintin's Great American Adventure", based on the comic "Tintin in America" (1976–1977)
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concentrating on the more lucrative merchandising" in the wake of a move in the late 1990s to charge them for using relevant images to illustrate their papers on the series. Tintin memorabilia and merchandise has allowed a chain of stores based solely on the character to become viable. The first shop was launched in 1984 in Covent Garden, London. Tintin shops have also opened in both Bruges and Brussels in Belgium, and in Montpellier, France. In 2014, a Tintin shop opened in Taguig, the Philippines, only the second of
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Tintin in Tibet


, in which Richard Pearce voiced Tintin. The book became a video game for the PC and Super Nintendo in 1995. "Tintin and I" (2003), a documentary by Danish director Anders Høgsbro Østergaard based on Numa Sadoul's 1971 interview with Hergé, includes restored portions of the interview that Hergé had heavily edited and rewritten in Sadoul's book. With full access to the audio recordings, the filmmaker explored the personal issues that the author had while he was creating "Tintin in Tibet" and how they drove him
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The Adventures of Tintin (film)


The Adventures of Tintin (also known as The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn) is a 2011 3D motion capture computer-animated action-adventure film based on the comic book series of the same name. Produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, co-produced by Peter Jackson and Kathleen Kennedy and written by Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish, the film is inspired by three of Belgian comics writer Hergé's Tintin series: "The Crab with the Golden Claws" (1941), "The
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successful social satire". They were critical of Syldavia's inclusion as an antagonist in the story, stating that the Syldavian attempts to kidnap Calculus "strains believability" because they had appeared as allies of Calculus and Tintin in both the preceding two-volume story arc, "Destination Moon" (1953) and "Explorers on the Moon" (1954), and in the earlier "King Ottokar's Sceptre" (1939). Ultimately, they felt that "the plot seems somewhat shoe-horned into the familiar universe
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Tintin and Alph-Art


"Tintin and the Forgers") before changing this working title to "Tintin et L'Alph-Art". The story's main antagonist, Endaddine Akass, was based on a real-life art forger, Fernand Legros, whom Hergé had learned about through reading a biography of him. The Akass character was also influenced by an article about the Indian guru Rajneesh which Hergé had read in a December 1982 edition of the "Paris Match". In Hergé's notes, he included the idea of revealing that Akass was Tintin
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at the end of the story, although was unsure how he could have ended the story without it. Hergé wanted the Carreidas 160 in "Flight 714 to Sydney" (1968) to have at least the same detailed attention that he had put into all of his fictional vehicles, from the "Unicorn" ship in "The Secret of the Unicorn" (1943) to the moon rocket in "Explorers on the Moon" (1954). The supersonic jet aircraft called for by the new "Tintin" adventure,
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engine. Due to the strain on the oxygen supplies, the crew decides to abandon the Moon tank and the optical instruments and to cut short the lunar stay. The repair work is completed slightly ahead of schedule, and the rocket is cleared for lift-off. Halfway to Earth, Jorgen escapes his bonds thanks to the detectives' bungling and tries to kill Tintin and the others; Wolff seeks to prevent him, and in their struggle over a gun Jorgen is killed. When it is revealed that there will not be
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List of The Adventures of Tintin characters


Tharkey leads Tintin and Captain Haddock to the crash site of the aircraft. After initially leaving the site to return to his village, he feels guilty for leaving them alone and returns just in time to help Tintin and Haddock out of a dangerous situation. However, he subsequently breaks his arm and must return to the plains after partly convalescing at a Buddhist monastery while Tintin and the Captain continue their search for Chang. Tharkey was based on Ang Tharkay, a Nepalese mountain climber and explorer who acted as sherpa and later sirdar for
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Signal Transfer Point


A Signal Transfer Point (STP) is a router that relays SS7 messages between "signaling end-points" (SEPs) and other signaling transfer points (STPs). Typical SEPs include "service switching points" (SSPs) and "service control points" (SCPs). The STP is connected to adjacent SEPs and STPs via signaling links. Based on the address fields of the SS7 messages, the STP routes the messages to the appropriate outgoing signaling link. Edge STPs can also route based upon message body content using
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, and he works well with Professor Calculus, whom he supports completely. He misses most of the excitement of the Moon journey, having to stay and man the Centre, but acquires some of it when the returning Moon rocket nearly lands on his car. Bill, a ship's cook, is the cook on board the "Aurora" during "The Shooting Star". He then returned as cook on board the "Sirius" during "Red Rackham's Treasure" and was the first character seen in that adventure,
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