Tintin´s Adventure with Frank Gardner - A great documentation and journey

[@mattpaine2558]

Tintin inspired me to leave my small town and travel the world. I lived in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Tokyo for 22 years. Thanks, Tintin!

[@KokkiePiet]

As a kid growing up (was born in 1965) I loved comics of Tintin and Asterix. I heard of The land of the Sovjets, but didn't get my hands on a re-print until the '90s The early ones (in the Congo, in America) are not what we would call PC now, however, Herge did learn, and in the later ones Tintin is always on the right side. A true hero. Nice anecdote, in the blue lotus, all the Chinese texts make fun of the Japanese as they where occupying china at the time. A lot of people didn't like how the SU is portrayed in Tintin, however, the truth is, in reality it was even worse

[@arpanbhattacharyya8151]

I remember reading TinTin in Bengali as a kid. My father issued those from his office’s library for me to read. Just an irreplaceable piece of childhood memory

[@PM2022]

sad

[@033biswa]

Heartiest congratulations Mr Gardner. It was awesome, mind blowing, perfectly researched, mesmerizing. I am a dead fan of Mr Tintin and all the characters Mr Herge created. Thank you so very much for your outstanding effort to showcase this brilliant documentary. Thank you, again and again. - Dr Biswanath Kundu, Calcutta, India

[@anthonywalker6276]

Great documentary. Seeing Leslie Lonsdale Cooper is such a treat. I have all the Tintin books, including 1960s red spine editions, which were the companions of my childhood, and still are, and will always be cherished. Explorers on the Moon was the first Tintin book I saw, when I was six, and The Red Sea Sharks the first I had, age seven, and whic 22:41 h is still for me the one of greatest nostalgia.

[@francispaulmarottikal1839]

As a child, my mother bought me a first copy of Tintin and then I was hooked and read every book of Tintin that I could have. A very special series with so much excitement and thrills with out any vulgarity. A totally lovely character with a lovable doggy snowy. I remember all the other characters too. Good God bless🙏

[@julianwaugh968]

If I was sick in bed with the flu ,I would have a pile of TINTIN books to pass the time. The presenter speaks English and flawless French and German. Great insight into Herge

[@gordygibson8776]

This programme is an absolute delight - captures the spirit of Tin Tin perfectly and Herges child like enthusiasm for adventure.

[@JanetCaterina]

I love that the narrator is shown also in action, using one interesting contrivance after another. Wheelchair, speedcar, and hand-pumped bicycle all lend to the theme of Tintin's active persona which he is trying to portray

[@edwardburek1717]

What a fascinating documentary. How in the hell did I manage to miss that first time round? That episode when Frank has to go through service and maintenance tunnels to get to the platform at the Brussels train station is worthy of a Tintin adventure in itself.

[@ASelbo]

Oh yes! I read my first Tintin book in 1968 at the age of 11. The Swedish edition of Le étoile mystérieuse on a shelf along 5 others at the school library. I read those multiple times and it was love from page one. The very kind librarian saw how much i loved them and managed to find what was available of Tintin albums at the time. Still have the collection at the age of 67, still pick one up once in a while and dive in to re-live fond memories. One of the saddest in life the day Tintin (Hergé) died. Tintin started my life long passion for reading, mostly "serious litterature" nowadays. Thank you Georges Remi❤

[@SDPerimal]

I loved every minute of this documentary....and am even more fascinated by Tintin and his creator Hergé!

[@liyarafeekh4327]

Wow. This documentary deserves millions of views. Wondeful!

[@vivek_menon]

Thank you for this documentary! What a great homage to one of the best work of fiction..

[@mark_beastpriest5539]

I started reading the adventures of Tintin at the age of 9. I'm in my 50's now, and still read them. I own the whole series.

[@juliemix3373]

I very much enjoyed this. Loved seeing all the lovely old cars. Such beauties. Watching this in 2021. I hope things are going well for you. Cheers.

[@lavodnas9000]

Great adventure. I had a chance to read the seven crystal balls in 1964. Since then, every week I take a look in some adventure of tintin. I loved the Herge museum.

[@v.dargain1678]

Great report . In my 60's now and still re-reading the Tintin books. Thanks for sharing .

[@shankarbalan3813]

Brilliant documentary. As an amateur tintinologist I can only take my hat off to Frank! Michael Farrs book is definitive! I remember meeting Michael’s Daughter around a decade ago in the Tintin Shop on Floral Street Covent Garden London....

[@robertlevasseur6843]

As a baby boomer growing up in French Canada Tintin was a huge part of my life. I was with him for every one of his adventures.

[@The_Space_Born]

I eat French toast for dinner.

[@rgw4393]

Those are some gorgeous old cars 😍

[@thogameskanaal]

It's an extremely rare form of art to be able to accurately depict locations and scenarios that you've never been in person before. Hergé knew his subjects like the inside of his jacket's pocket and researched the nitty-gritty details that outsiders would pick up, making his work just that bit more real and human.

[@PM2022]

in your dreams

[@stuart8663]

I have just smiled continuously for 59 minutes and 41 seconds. It hurts, but I'm happy. Thanks sincerely, Frank.

[@abhikdey3633]

Smiling hurts !

[@colintosh5210]

Absolutely fantastic.

[@troygaspard6732]

Thank you for this journey.

[@brettsimpson1505]

Absolutely wonderful. Thank you for posting.

[@jeanmarc5303]

Thanks for sharing this amazing documentary !

[@chrisgerber6281]

Brilliantly done. I have been a Tin Tin fan for decades. Also recently started collecting some of the very old books. Never really understood why this story was in black and white. Really enjoyed your journey and the insights. Thank you.

[@karlfurrutter14]

They were all in black and white as originally published in newsprint. Later he redrew and rewrote most of them into the book form, but never the Soviets one. There was a reason but I cant remember it

[@ulfskei]

Wonderful!

[@anthonywalker6276]

Superb. Thank you.

[@faraxio]

I love tintin.. thank you for sharing your efforts for this amazing journey. Regards and respect from Pakistan.

[@lillychevalierfox]

oh my!! this is a fantastic adventure. I am so sincerely glad I followed you. I am waiting for more.

[@DonaldDork]

That was an amazing docu. Thank you so much for the invaluable insights.

[@isaacneuteboom8105]

Weldone, goed gedaan, genoten. 🤗👏👍👍👍

[@smithpm81]

Fantastic

[@SouthPark333Gaming]

This bloke speaks every language ever

[@reuterromain1054]

You somehow also look like Tintin. I devoured these Tintins when i was a boy. Even now as an adult i love to read a Tintin in french from time to time. I have read them all except the "Tintin au pays des Soviets".

[@davidwhittington7638]

Excellent... Tin Tin, continues to be an inspiration to children..

[@brianevolved2849]

excellent well done

[@Pete4Flags]

This was brilliant. Thank very much.

[@pyronitro]

i wish i can give a thousand thousand likes to Mr Gardner. Love Love Love Tintin!

[@therealzilch]

What a wonderfully engaging report.

[@swkaushik]

Excellent documentary

[@MarloweDash]

Wonderful! Thank you!! -usa

[@swkaushik]

Thank You Sir

[@fernandofernandes6133]

Excelente!!!

[@MrMojoRisin71]

Nice one Frank. Top Man.

[@jonjim1952]

great. learned so much about Herge, 1920's Tintin, and the early Soviets.

[@bulletbeats604]

Beautifull show whatta jurney

[@michnygaard]

This is very good!

[@juanguillermonaranjoecheve2376]

Excelente documental!! gracias!!

[@paulclalchungnunga2052]

I fell into a deep slumber an Autoplay brought me here . Sweet Nostalgia indeed tbh

[@lindsaybrambles9678]

I think one of the reasons Tintin remains such a success is not just the quality of the writing and art (particularly in the books starting with LE LOTUS BLEU onward) but the fact that the central character is something of a blank slate. The reader is told little about Tintin the individual (beyond the scope of his adventures): He has no parents, no romantic interest, the details of his job are nebulous other than that he's a reporter, his place of birth is never stated, we know nothing of his childhood, and even his age is a vague parameter that could be anywhere from teens to early twenties. In a novel that might be considered a serious failing, but in Herge's adventures it allows the reader to become the character, to enter the story and become more a part of it than is the case with so much other literature. Thus instead of being passive observers, we become active participants. It's probably why the character and the books remain timeless, even when visual aspects of the tales clearly mark the eras in which they were created. My own discovery of Tintin was back in the late sixties, in a bookstore in the bazaar in Karachi, during the start of my own worldly adventures. Back then I was nine and my father was an electrical engineer working on a CIDA project in Sukkur, and I gravitated toward the character because Tintin's romps around the world were easily relatable to a young boy experiencing new worlds of his own for the first time. I didn't get to own my own copy of a Tintin book until we moved to Isfahan, Iran a couple of years later. There I found a bookstore that displayed the Metheun editions prominently, and thereafter I haunted that store until I'd bought all the available titles (including some French Casterman ones and one in Farsi). My passion for the series has never left me. When we moved to Tanzania in the mid-seventies those Tintin books were one of the few things I took with me. Over the years I've re-read them several times; and as a writer and artist I continue to marvel at the near perfection of many of the books. I've read a lot of bande dessinee, but Herge's Tintin remains at the summit of them all, arguably the first and the best of what today we would call graphic novels. Their place in comic history and in literature is well deserved.

[@spasegeek9214]

Yeah, thats the very theory described by McCloud in "Understanding Comics"

[@mondomacabromajor5731]

great doco ... Tintin was a huge part of my childhood....

[@hurdygurdyguy1]

Imagine Tintin teaming up with that other Belgian of note, Hercule Poirot!

[@rene-claudesenecal5338]

Those animations made in this film from Hergé’s original drawings are simply great. What a nice idea to do a complete Tintin movie like this, may help me forget the last Spielberg incursion in Tintin’s universe.🤔

[@yousefsh7949]

Are those animations from a movie that I can watch ? Or was it specifically made for this video

[@Mescha_]

I had no idea he’s called Tintin in englisch. In german the books are called Tim & Struppi (Struppi is the name of his dog).

[@felixonrails]

It's the original names from french.

[@anthonywalker6276]

Amazing. I believe there is a Tintin café in Lhasa!😮

[@timrob12]

Our Belgian hero who made it to Hollywood...Alongside the Smurfs.

[@idamelin]

Thank you, thank you, thank you! That was very Tintinesque…

[@type2ryder417]

Blubbering bluster, a tale tellers tale.

[@helenkeller78]

I was absolutely stuned with the t shirt,like..why the heck is he wearing a stained shirt? Hhahhaha, until I searched it, and saw they designed like that form the start hahhaha

[@hamishcameron1082]

Tintin is my favourite I’m a tintin fan 🇬🇧

[@guillaumechevalier3368]

Hello, Frank. Russian trains are quite wheelchair accessible. The average track-gauge in Russia is among the broadest in the world. Thank you for this report, let me first congratulate your for your outstanding French and your very good German. Also, although I'd also been researching "Tintin in the Land of the Soviets", I had not heard about Robert Sexé. This is food for thought and maybe also candy for the eyes. I'd be glad to know more about him and his photgraphic reports, just so that I'd publish in Russia a paper with a bad pun, "В СССР Сексе не было". But I digress. A word about Douillé and his book. If you read him, didn't you consider to go a tad further from Russia, in Rostov-on-Don, where was Douillé's residence? According to him, the "elections" at gun-point (and a few other stories of his) happened in Rostov countriside, in the village of Novoleushkovskaya. Also, the episode of the straw in factory smokestacks is related by Douillé in the Donetzk area... But it was already a war zone, as you went into Russia (some evidences indicate July-August 2017). Anyway, the main problem of Hergé's use of Douillet is that, as his anticommunist surroundings, he essentializes the dreaded Foe. Douillé talks about very different places, Moscow, Rostov, Donetzk, and very different times, War Communism, the NEP, as if it was the same communist world, but the Party line was so inconsequent during the whole Soviet History, saying "black" one day and "white" the other, pretty much like "Oceania is at war with Eastasia." or "Oceania is at war with Eurasia"... And then, when Tintin is published, 1929, Stalin is already writing a new page of History, forcibly industrializing Soviet Union. About the kulaks, already in the beginning of 1930, when Tintin was still running through the Soviet steppe, Stalin would first try to blame the violence of collectivization on local powers "dizzy with success", beginning to soften the definition of "kulak", and during the subsequent years gradually decreasing peasants' deportation. The ancestors of your Dmitrov peasant had it relatively easy, if you compare their fate to the violence of collectivisation in Ukrain and Southern "Black-soil" Russia, and the subsequent famine there. Again, something that Douillet didn't wait enough to see around Rostov-on-Don, because he got arrested and deported beforehand. By the way, if you want to see "Tintin in the Land of the Soviets" made by the Soviets, watch "The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks", a 1924 comedy of the famous Lev "effect" Kuleshov. You'll see chase scenes with a cowboy in the center of Moscow (hello, Cathedral of the Christ Saviour!), fake comissars and fake miserable Soviet Russia who could have been drawn by Hergé: (with English subtitles) kzbin.info/www/bejne/iKLdZmZ5o7yNgKM

[@dodovomitory3496]

Amazing. I also feel the same way about Tintin and would like to go on adventures without giving it much thought.

[@junebhattacharjee9669]

When l was a child I used to enjoy reading the adventures of Tintin his dog Pluto and the Captain .l still read them now if l get one in hand it's fun 👌🌹🐩😍

[@phmwu7368]

George Remi's 1953 Moon story was based on the 1950 Technicolor science fiction movie "Destination Moon" , a movie using paintings by Chesley Bonestell and astronauts laying in couches !

[@davidbourdon8967]

I love all french comic like Tintin, Lucky luck and Asterix and Obélix.

[@kurtgodel5236]

TinTin and Lucky Luke are Belgian ...

[@RSEFX]

I wonder if anyone ever asked Carl Barks if the Tint Tin books had an influence on his Uncle Scrooge epic stories? They seem to have a lot of similarities. (I think Tin Tin really started to make an appearance in the US (meaning being available enough that the average person going to a local store might see copies for sale) in the very late 1950's. I think I saw my first copies of his books (Herge's books that is) in/around 1961 at a Kresge's store that carried books like the Hardy Boys, Tom Swift, Nancy Drew and such. Had never heard of TinTin before that. But, I can imagine a comic artist like Barks may have been very aware of those books and their influence and popularity around the world from way back.

[@charliedrosario999]

This ended very hurriedly.

[@warmflash]

Fantastic • What a story • What time Tintin lived in •

[@sunscapes21]

Tintin documentary with gypsy jazz in background.. ❤️

[@marymoor935]

I loved Snowy the dog, what a dog!!

[@Blandina11]

I think we all love the dog, it's original name is "Milou" (In Denmark it was named Terry, after all it's a white Wire Fox Terrier) Cheers

[@SpaceCattttt]

The only "problem" I have with this book is that its pace seems rather off. Too much happens all the time, and because it was originally published on a weekly basis, it's seems somewhat disjointed in places as well, as if Herge forgot where he was half the time (or didn't know where he was going with it). But it is entertaining. As is this documentary. There are far too few Tintin documentaries out there, so thanks for making it! 😊

[@gezi5927]

Yeah, the early ones weren’t amazing. The later ones are awesome. Especially the Calculus Affair, that one captures everything I love about Tintin

[@Inkling777]

The Tarzan tales are much the same. The pace never lets up because each article in the serial has to leave you wanting to read the next.

[@Yngvarfo]

I would say that the shift comes with The Blue Lotus. From then on, the stories look much more coherent.

[@SpaceCattttt]

@@Yngvarfo I agree with that. I'm not sure if it's because Herge had more time and/or money to make that one, but the step up in quality is significant.

[@Yngvarfo]

@@SpaceCattttt - Well, one thing was that that story was very personal to him, having befriended a Chinese student named Chang Chong-Yen whom he wrote in as a character in the story.

[@phmwu7368]

BBC missed the huge logo of Tintin & Milou on the roof of the former Lombard editions building near Brussels South station (gare du Midi) at the Avenue Paul-Henri Spaak, renewed in 2009.

[@jimpaapway3468]

one of the best Journalist in the World of my Generation !!!!

[@walterszewczyk9024]

Just thinking, if Tintin did exist, being a very old man telling his grandchildren, great grandchildren about his adventures, life & times, probably recognized as a national treasure or knighted by the Queen of England, living icon to people everywhere.

[@urh8523]

Tintin in the land of soviet did explain very well wat happened in the 1927 Rusia. What may the rusians say about that Tintin album?

[@anthonywalker6276]

The "death" of Tintin from the explosion transfers nicely over in spite of its unreality, like the "death" of Sherlock Holmes at the Reichenbach Falls and his subsequent reappearance.

[@namitasarkar3501]

The comic "Tintin in the Land of the Soviets" inspired you to go to the same places that Tintin and Snowy visited on their first adventure! I can tell you are one of the luckiest tintinologists in the world.

[@RAWDernison1]

16:34 ... a picture and a 1000 words.

[@jita14]

i named my white dog Snowy after Tintin’s dog & later when we adopted an orphan cat we called him Tintin

[@aninditakm7856]

Blue car smells like adventure😍

[@lemat8558]

Great story. I love TinTin. So many political flaws, but the stories! Adventures ahead!

[@coffeehubby]

The fellow who owns the car looks like the famous pick pocket 🤣

[@kathyfugere6085]

Do you mean ARSENE LUPIN

[@Kaffemosterful]

Aristide Filoselle

[@swkaushik]

Great Car

[@ethanskinner1002]

Tintin by Herge is a masterpiece!

[@KironManuelCards]

Good to know

[@bernardkealey6449]

One thing Hergè DID get wrong with the Amilcar which I just twigged on today; he drew it as a left hand drive… I’m also wondering if the crashing if the car was a weird bad taste dig at Isadora Duncan who was a Soviet citizen at the time of her death - out of an Amilcar CGSs

[@8nansky528]

I ADORE READING

[@anthonywalker6276]

I am reminded of another adventurer, Arthur Cravan, who stole the Kaiser's car in Berlin, and I believe crashed it.

[@carolinethompson7173]

Whatever happened to 'milou' and 'professor tournesol'?

[@DeltaStar777]

Not great not terrible :-) More of a classic car program

[@souvikdas5662]

I watched the whole documentary in one go.

[@SusanGeyer-l4k]

Never mind Tintin, you are my guy and I have YOUR books.

[@HROM1908]

Excellent documentary, although I have a difficult time hearing you say TinTin instead of Tan Tan (without pronouncing the n). Thank you.

[@ShafikKhan-zq8kn]

Though most of Tintin adventures were/are political yet the comic made children's mind penetrated. Was it brainwash or else? Kids don't care neither understand politics so what's made them to glued with? Action? Adventure?, Travel or Snoopy the dog? Herge kills two birds with one stone.

[@muir8009]

some were the well informed herges personal reflections of political statements. Soviets definitely, Congo more a statement about European attitudes at the time, black island was king Kong, ottokar: who was aware of the nazi intrigues in Yugoslavia? Crystal balls and especially cigars obviously howard carter etc etc. it's worth observing that Herge had never been abroad, he just was deeply aware of the thrills of derring do in exotic or adventurous locations, and as herge hung out with journos it's pretty safe to say he had a good idea of world affairs.

[@GirishVenkatachalam]

Wow

[@newbegining7046]

If it wasn't for brilliant translation work of leslie and michael, probably Tintin wouldn't have become globally loved character.

[@w.urlitzer1869]

idiot

[@muir8009]

@@w.urlitzer1869 why?

[@louiskoenig1357]

Charles de Gaulle : " je n'ai qu'un rival , Tintin .'' !

[@walterszewczyk9024]

Maybe a good story would be if when in the Batman the animated series episode it is revealed that Jonah Hex was a son of Ra,s Al Ghul, still alive in contemporary times, kept so due to replenishment in the legendary Lazuras Pit. This was a poignant reveal to the dynamic duo and myself as a viewer & fan, perhaps if something as such could also pertain to Tintin that would be something indeed. There being a story where Tintin & Snowy revealed to still be alive, both very very old, though alive due to something like the Lazuras Pit keeping them both alive. What awe & wonder to those who find these heros, rejuvenation bringing them both youth again, only for a short period at a time. Dunno just wondering if in real life someone like Tintin , Snowy existed, still alive after all these years what a tale that would bring, like a paperback novel about a movie about a ghost from a wishing well. The hero would be you.

[@muir8009]

Tintin is always and forever an adventurous, youthful journalist. His world doesn't, and doesn't need to change. Although trading plus fours for trousers on occasion for a more contemporary look, he can still get away with plus fours and a blazer any time he wants to. And stuff like Lazarus pits don't really fit in with the Tintin world, 714 was a little over the top and Herge retrenched after that, bringing Tintin back into solid reality

[@walterszewczyk9024]

@@muir8009 Don,t think sci-fi elements belong in Tintin,really ? I think it would be a good idea to have that in the new comics if possible someday. I like to draw myself, occasionally have drawn covers to books, like to see like Tintin and the Mystery of the Men in Black. Tintin, The Case of the Missing Galaxy. Perhaps Fanzine equivalent made Tintin comics are the way to go in this case. Even Asterix is still around with new comics, not to mention new authors, Tintin should be as well, it,s a travesty it,s not. Tintin and the Fifa World Cup Bombings, dunno something, just more comics, all the Asterix fans are laughing at us. Lol. Tintin and the Case of the World Trade Centre Bombings Conspiracy. Lol.

[@walterszewczyk9024]

Tintin in the Soviet Union is cool, though it needs a colored edition. Hope Tintin got Snowy something to eat in that Soviet corruption reveal scene. Lol.