Once Upon a Time... The Americas
Once Upon a Time... The Americas (French: Il était une fois... les Amériques) is an educational animated television series created and directed by Albert Barillé. It is the fourth series in the Once Upon a Time... franchise. It explains the history of the Americas in a format adapted for children, with the action focused around one group of characters which appear in every episode dealing with the problems of the period depicted. The series was produced by French studio Procidis in co-production with FR3 and Canal+ (France), Televisión Española (TVE, Spain), Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Südwestrundfunk (WDR and SWR, Germany), Reteitalia (Italy), Société Radio-Canada (Canada), Radio Télévision Suisse Romande and Radiotelevisione della Svizzera Italiana (Switzerland), Oy. Yleisradio Ab. (Yle, Finland), Radio-télévision belge de la Communauté française and Belgische Radio en Televisie Nederlandse Uitzendingen (RTBF and BRT, Belgium), and the French Centre national de la cinématographie. The series premiered in France on Canal+, beginning on 28 October 1991, and it was subsequently broadcast on the channels of the rest of the broadcasters that participated in the production dubbed into their own language. The show aired in the United States on the History Channel in January–March 1995.
| Once Upon a Time... The Americas | |
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| French | Il était une fois... les Amériques |
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| Created by | Albert Barillé |
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| Countries of origin | List
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| Original language | French |
| No. of episodes | 26 |
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| Running time | 26 minutes |
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| Network | Canal+ |
| Release | 28 October 1991 – 24 March 1993 |
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Once Upon a Time... The Americas (French: Il était une fois... les Amériques) is an educational animated television series created and directed by Albert Barillé. It is the fourth series in the Once Upon a Time... franchise. It explains the history of the Americas in a format adapted for children, with the action focused around one group of characters which appear in every episode dealing with the problems of the period depicted.
The series was produced by French studio Procidis in co-production with FR3 and Canal+ (France), Televisión Española (TVE, Spain), Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Südwestrundfunk (WDR and SWR, Germany), Reteitalia (Italy), Société Radio-Canada (Canada), Radio Télévision Suisse Romande and Radiotelevisione della Svizzera Italiana (Switzerland), Oy. Yleisradio Ab. (Yle, Finland), Radio-télévision belge de la Communauté française and Belgische Radio en Televisie Nederlandse Uitzendingen (RTBF and BRT, Belgium), and the French Centre national de la cinématographie. The series premiered in France on Canal+, beginning on 28 October 1991, and it was subsequently broadcast on the channels of the rest of the broadcasters that participated in the production dubbed into their own language.
The show aired in the United States on the History Channel in January–March 1995.[1]
Synopsis
[edit]The series, aimed at children, tell the history of the Americas through all their settlements (Eskimos, Aztecs, Incas, etc.) and their historical events (conquest of the West, American Revolutionary War, etc.).
Episodes
[edit]- The First Americans
- The Hunters
- The Conquerors of the Great North
- The Promised Land
- The Tumulus Builders
- The Aztecs before the Conquest
- Christopher Columbus' Dream
- America!
- Cortes and the Aztecs
- Que viva Mexico!
- Pizarro and the Inca Empire
- Jacques Cartier
- The Age of the Conquistadores
- Champlain
- England and the Thirteen Colonies
- The Indians in the 17th Century
- The Indians in the 18th Century
- The End of the French Dream
- The 13 Colonies Towards Independence
- The War of Independence
- Ebony Wood (slavery)
- The Pioneers
- Simón Bolívar
- The Gold Rush
- The End of the Indian People
- Towards the 20th Century
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. p. 596. ISBN 978-1476665993.
External links
[edit]- Official website Archived 2018-04-26 at the Wayback Machine for Procidis, the series' producer
- Once Upon a Time... The Americas at IMDb
- Hello Mastero at YouTube