Once upon a time ... explorer and inventor
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Once upon a time ... explorers and inventors change the world |
| Original title | Il était une fois… les Découvreurs |
| Country of production |
 France
|
| original language | French |
| year | 1994 |
| length | 25 minutes |
| Episodes | 26 ( list ) |
| genre | documentary |
| idea | Albert Barillé |
| First broadcast | 1994 on FR3 , Canal + |
| German-language first broadcast |
July 8, 1995 on Das Erste |
Once upon a time… Discoverers and inventors change the world ( French Il était une fois… les Découvreurs ) is a French animated series that was created in 1994 and is one of a series of series entitled Once Upon a Time… .
The DVD version, on the other hand, was released under the name Once Upon a Time ... Researchers & Inventors .
Production and publication
The series was produced by the French studio Procidis under the direction of Albert Barillé . The music was composed by Michel Legrand . The broadcasts happened as follows.
| country | Channel |
|---|---|
|
France
|
France 3 , Canal + |
 Canada
|
CBC Television , Télévision de Radio-Canada |
 Spain
|
Televisión Española (TVE) |
 Germany
|
WDR , SWF , KiKa , arte |
 Austria
|
ORF |
 Italy
|
Italia 1 |
 Indonesia
|
Spacetoon |
 Switzerland
|
TSR (French), RTSI (Italian) |
 Belgium
|
RTBF |
 Poland
|
Telewizja Polska (TVP), TV Puls |
 Portugal
|
RTP |
 Sweden
|
Sveriges Television (SVT) |
 Finland
|
Yleisradio (YLE) |
 Hungary
|
Magyar Televízió , Minimax |
 Ireland
|
RTÉ |
 United Kingdom
|
Channel 4 |
 Iceland
|
Sjónvarpið (RÚV) |
Episode list
The series is about important inventors and discoverers in human history.
| No. | German title | theme | French title |
|---|---|---|---|
|
1
|
The Chinese | The first inventors | Nos ancêtres les Chinois |
|
2
|
Archimedes | Greece in lift | Archimède et les Grecs |
|
3
|
Ptolemy and Heron | Two geniuses from Alexandria | Héron d'Alexandrie |
|
4th
|
The time measurement | The long way to a quartz watch | Les mesures du temps |
|
5
|
Henry the Navigator | In search of the end of the world | Henri le navigateur - et la cartographie |
|
6th
|
Gutenberg | The invention of printing | Gutenberg - et l'écriture |
|
7th
|
Leonardo | The all-rounder from Italy | De Vinci - le touche à tout |
|
8th
|
The medicine | The fathers of the healing arts | Les médecins - Paracelse, Vésale, Paré, etc. |
|
9
|
Galileo | "... and it turns" | Galilé |
|
10
|
Newton | The law of gravity | Newton |
|
11
|
Buffon | The history of nature | Buffon, la découverte du passé |
|
12
|
Lavoisier | The wonder world of chemistry | Lavoisier et la chimie |
|
13
|
Stephenson | Full steam ahead | Stephenson - à toute vapeur |
|
14th
|
Faraday | The discovery of electromagnetism | Faraday et l'électricité |
|
15th
|
Darwin | The Origin of Species | Darwin et l'evolution |
|
16
|
Mendel | The rules of inheritance | Mendel et les petits pois |
|
17th
|
Pasteur | The world of microorganisms | Pasteur and the micro-organismes |
|
18th
|
Edison | A light goes on | Thomas Edison et la science appliquée |
|
19th
|
Marconi | A new medium is born | Marconi et les ondes |
|
20th
|
ford | Automobile off the production line | Ford et l'aventure automobile |
|
21st
|
From Ikarus to Lindbergh | The dream of flying | L'aviation |
|
22nd
|
Madame Curie | The secret of radioactivity | Marie Curie |
|
23
|
Einstein | Everything is relative | Einstein |
|
24
|
Lorenz | The father of the geese | Lorenz, le père l'oie |
|
25th
|
Armstrong | The first man on the moon | Armstrong, la lune et l'espace |
|
26th
|
The future | The departure into the 21st century | Demain est déjà là |
synchronization
The synchronization was carried out by Legard Synchron Berlin. Michael Richter directed the dialogue ; the dialogue book is by Eberhard Weiß .
| role | French speaker | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| maestro | Roger Carel | |
| teller | Josef Meinrad | |
| Pierrot | Olivier Destrez | Frank Schröder |
Web links
- Official website (German, English, French)
- Once Upon a Time ... The Discoverers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Once upon a time ... discoverer and inventor in the online film database
- Once upon a time ... discoverer and inventor at Fernsehserien.de
- Once upon a time ... discoverer and inventor at Animated Series.de