Professor Balthazar

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Television series
German title Professor Balthazar
Original title Professor Baltazar
Professor Baltazar, maketa u Zagrebu.jpg
Country of production Yugoslavia
Year (s) 1967/68 (season 1)
1971 (season 2)
1977 (season 3 + 4)
length 5-10 minutes
Episodes 59
idea Zlatko Grgić
Ante Zaninović
Pavao Štalter
Boris Kolar
Milan Blažeković
Zlatko Bourek
music Tomica Simović
T. Brunsmid (Supervisor)
camera I. Hercigonja
German-language
first broadcast		 January 13, 1973 ARD
Professor Balthazar

Professor Balthazar ( Croatian Profesor Baltazar ) was a 59-part Yugoslav cartoon series by Zlatko Grgić , which was produced by Zagreb Film from 1967 to 1977 and first broadcast on German television on January 13, 1973.

action

The series is about the scientist Professor Balthazar , who solves the problems of his fellow men with the help of his curious invention machine. If he was confronted with a problem, he paced up and down, accompanied by "he thought ... and thought ... and thought ... and then he had an idea", a voice from the off . The solution to the respective problem consisted in each time that a drop of a cocktail of different chemicals , mixed in the "professor" colorful machine, collected by him in a test tube and dripped onto the floor - whereupon something suitable for problem solving emerged, mostly another one (other) machine.

Emergence

The series has remained the most successful project of the Zagreb school of animation to this day. The "father" of the character Balthazar is Zlatko Grgić , with less than 20 people working on the production.

From 1968 to 1971 Zlatko Grgić, Boris Kolar and Ante Zaninović worked alternately as directors and writers on the series. The first season of 13 episodes was produced in 1967/68, the second season of also 13 episodes was produced in 1971. In the 3rd season produced in 1977 with the next 13 episodes, Zlatko Grgić was no longer involved. In the same year Boris Kolar and Ante Zaninović produced a fourth season with this time 20 episodes, which were only half as long as the previous ones. Of these 59 episodes produced by Zagreb-Film, episodes # 05 "Maestro Koko", # 31 "Maxol" and # 34 "Pepino Cicerone" were not sold to Germany ( italicized in the season list below ). This meant that only 56 episodes were broadcast here.

The team of draftsmen consisted of just 9 people: Zlatko Grgić, Boris Kolar, Ante Zaninović, Turido Paus, Leopold Fabiani, Neven Petričić, Zlatko Bourek, Branko Varadin and Srđan Matić, with the last 3 responsible for the background.

Broadcast on German television

Professor Balthazar was first broadcast on German television on January 13, 1973. From 1976 to the end of 1978 Professor Balthazar appeared in the regional evening program of the WDR in five-minute episodes as a commercial separator . Towards the end of 1978 Professor Balthazar was replaced in the evening program by the three children Ute, Schnute, Kasimir and their dog Moppel . The 56 purchased episodes were synchronized in the Windrose Studios in Hamburg on behalf of Westdeutscher Werbeffernsehen (WWF) in Cologne, a WDR subsidiary.

Since June 24, 2012, twelve digitally revised and newly set episodes of the series have been running in the show with the mouse with mouse speaker Günter Dybus as the narrator.

Trivia

In 2005 the production of the popular cartoon series should be resumed. According to information from the Zagreb DOP magazine (dated December 1, 2005), the first four of the new episodes were shown in the Zagreb cinema on November 30, 2005. It is not known how many episodes will be produced in total and whether these will also be sold abroad.

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