Drawing history

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The character story or "television story" is an animated television genre that - unlike the animated film - where many captured as screenshots drawings the viewer as a coherent movement appeared - with the look of a picture book is comparable and gets by with a much smaller number of different drawings.

As a rule, images are filmed without the use of trick technology, either with a fixed setting or with a camera movement over the image, in which certain details may also be zoomed in. The latter happens in coordination with the spoken text, which is another essential element of the television count. The often artistic images often enter into a special symbiosis with the spoken word .

The spoken text is mostly limited to a narrative text; Verbatim speech is sometimes read with assigned roles. A pure form of dialogue, as is usually the case in film, only occurs in exceptional cases in the history of characters genre .

Often, the images and text of a character story, in addition to music accompanied.

The history of characters is a genre from the early days of television . In Germany it is inextricably linked with the programs of the artist Reiner Zimnik , in which Joachim Fuchsberger appeared as the narrator. The first character story "Jonas the Angler" was followed by many other programs from the pen of Zimnik, which are popular with both children and adults. A whole series of broadcast episodes was even created around the figure of " Lektro " , a "weird and subtle glasses man".

In the 1970s , interest in drawing stories on German television decreased in favor of animated films. The programs of the artist Janosch , which still frequently used the genre in the 1980s , were also switched to animation. As a rule, from the 1980s on, character stories were only briefly represented as contributions to children's programs, such as B. Sesame Street or Dandelion .

Recently, however, there has been an increase in the appearance of audio book DVDs which seem to revive the "history of characters" genre by illustrating the spoken text.