петък, 16 март 2012 г.

Uncle Parrot's Tales



                                   
                                  
                                   UNCLE PARROT’S TALES 
A PROJECT FOR AN ANIMATED SERIES (10x4)
                                         
Script, translation and adaptation of the rhymes: Tsvetomira Nikolova


The series is based on traditional folk nursing rhymes and tales from all over the world.
Artist: Anna Haralampieva

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A little boy scribbles on a piece of paper letters, numbers and drawings. He is bored. Out of the blue comes an old parrot and tells him stories and rhymes from all over the world. 

Artist and director: Anna Haralampieva
Script and dialogue: Tsvetomira Nikolova
                                                                                                                                            
1. Pilot episode –released in April,2008. Australia . Song: Kookaburrah.Synopsis.
                                                                        Script: Tsvetomira Nikolova
                                                                                               Artist and director: Tsvetomira Nikolova
                                                                                       Music: Rumen Tsonev
                                                                                         Producer:VizAr production
                                                                      With the support of the National Film Centre, Bulgaria
The bird Kookaburra is the Queen of Australia because she is the noisiest of all animals and likes to perch on the tallest branch of the tallest tree.



 Artist: Tsvetomira Nikolova

2. Pilot episode –released in April,2008. Japan. Song: Kites. Synopsis.
                                                                        Script: Tsvetomira Nikolova
                                                                                              Artist and director: Anna Haralampieva
                                                                                      Music: Rumen Tsonev
                                                                                        Producer:VizAr production
                                                              With the support of the National Film Centre, Bulgaria 
 In the sky, the kites have a party. They dance, jump over each other, their strings entangled. Some of them fall in love while others fight with each .They carry their owners high in the sky – right to the sun. However, the sun and the moon happen to be kites as well. Who holds them? 


  Artist: Anna Haralampieva 

             

3. America. Song: Four Little Ducks.Synopsis.
 Mother Duck is a perfect housewife. She often lets her four ducklings play outside so that she could tidy up the house in peace. Her children go for a walk – each of them finds a friend out there and does not come back home. First, only three of them return from the walk, then only two of them…Mother Duck is so engulfed in tidying up the house that she does not pay attention.
When nobody is back, she gets angry and rushes out to loo for her ducklings. She comes back not only with the ducks but with all their friends. She will have much more housework to do now.     

4. Argentine. Song: Manuelita. Synopsis
Two turtles are in loveе and have blocked the whole traffic in town.  The she turtle is very shy and wouldn’t look in her lover’s eyes. She believes she is too old and ugly. So she goes all the way to Paris on foot to make herself beautiful.
 She comes aback a new turtle, but as she reaches the ocean, she stops – what about her new boots?
Many years after, she returns to her townolder and disheveled from the tripq her shell covered with seaweeds and moss. Her lover cannot recognize her. The whole town waves at him to stop and look at his sweetheart.  Once again the traffic is blocked – everybody strikes a party while the two slow turtle look at each other.         

5. Bulgaria.  Song: Auntie Froggie.Synopsis.
A frog catches a glimpse of her own reflection in a pool. She is enchanted with herself. She starts thinking how she will go to the village dance and everybody will burst out of envy when they see her beauty.  
So, she goes to the dance and everybody burst out laughing. The frog swells with pride and flies up in the sky like a balloon.    

6. Great Britain. Song: Hush, little baby. Synopsis.
 A mother tries to calm down her crying child buying him all kinds of pets. They make him cry even more, because they would not sing, meow, bark, neigh and jump.
 It’s only when mother kisses him when the child calms down. When it stops crying, all   the animals come to themselves and start meowing, jumping, mooing and barking.                              
           
            7. India. Song:Moon. Synopsis.
            A boy worries about the moonit looks thin and weak. That is why he invites him to dinner. The Moon gets so stuffed with food that it can hardly walk out the door and all the animals push him up the hill up to the sky.
                                                
8. Kenia. Song: Nicole's child.Synopsis.
A boy is afraid of even the smallest animal.But the small animals are also afraid of him. Once it starts raining and everybodu – the small animals and the child hide under the giraffe. They get acquainted there end become friends. 
                                                         
9. Russia. Song:Pussy, little kitty. Synopsis.
A grandmother and a grandfather cannot make their grandson sleep. So they go to the market, buy a fat cat and hire her to sing lullabies to the boy. The cat – nanny is more interested in tasting meals. The old people hire another cat – a mischievous tomcat, who is more interested in his salary and in playing tricks to everybody.
Finally the boy finds himself a small kitten. They play together till they get very tired and go to sleep cheek by cheek.

10. Jamaica. Song:Chi-Chi bam bam.Synopsis.
A boy finds a nickel, but is disappointed. The nickel is dirty and is only one. The other people’s nickels are shiny and there are lots of them. The child tries to make out of his nickel a hundred nickels. Pushing his luck, he almost loses his coin.



 


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