A history of Tintin on screen

The recent Steven Spielberg-Peter Jackson film isn't the first on-screen venture for Hergé's boy reporter. He's been featured in a variety of animated and live-action films over the years.

Recently, the great U.S. music and video label Shout! Factory has issued compilations of the 1990s "'Adventures of Tintin" animated adventures on disk. They also are available to download via Amazon and iTunes.

Here's a trailer:





There also was an animated series titled "Hergé's Adventures of Tintin" that ran from 1959 to 1963, featuring 104 five-minute episodes, which seem to all be available on YouTube, but not yet on DVD. Several VHS editions have been released in French and English. Here's a peek:


Other Tintin productions include:

"The Crab with the Golden Claws" in 1947, a black-and-white, stop-motion puppet production.



"Tintin and the Golden Fleece" in 1961,  French live-action films:


"Tintin and the Blue Oranges" in 1964, a live-action follow-up to "Tintin and the Golden Fleece":


"Tintin and the the Temple of the Sun," a 1969 animated adventure:



"Tintin and the Land of Sharks," a 1972 animated film:



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