Carland Cross (TV series)
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Carland Cross was an 1996 hardboiled
animated television series developed with the collaboration of Belgium, France and the Canada broadcasts, the 26 episodes for 26 minutes series, based most of the comics The Adventures of Carland Cross by two Belgians, Olivier Grenson and Michel Oleffe, tell the stories of an fictional British private investigator specialized in curious and inexplicable case. The series aired late 1996 under the French-language title Carland Coss and in other markets such as Spanish as Las aventuras de Carland Cross.
In this series, only 3 comics stories of the 26 episodes were used: The Golem, The Monster Under Sea (The Tunnel) and The Mysteries of The Loch Ness.
Although the aired series remains unknown in international television, the animated television series was a success in the late 1990s to early 2000s in European countries such as Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and South America, especially in Argentina. Nowadays the series is no longer aired, except in Belgium and Swiss broadcasts.
, a typical British private detective, investigations move the viewer to the most curious and spectacular scenery: enigmatic ancient civilizations with its ruins and graphics, forbidden regions, strange inexplicable murders, criminal Satanic cursed places, mysterious plots, cities deserted and most diverse monsters against those who will be fighting a smart combination of adventure, information and development with high doses of fantasy. It's universe of choice is the United Kingdom
especially in London
where the mysterious drowned city of fog, crime is everywhere and with it, dread and horror, it is including some other countries in Europe and the World of the '30s.
: He is a very cold and methodical British private investigator from Baker Street in London
, working alongside the police official. He shares its investigations with his pupil, Andy White, the aristocrat fervent admirer Medwenna Simpson and often helped by the Superintendent Marmaduke Wingfield.
created in 1990 is inspired such as Agatha Christie
, Arthur Conan Doyle
, William Hope Hodgson
and Jean Ray novels. In 1994 Olivier Grenson had the idea to take a computer animation of Carland Cross. With a friend, owner of the studio ASAP
, he begins to select a series of images in albums and edit them into a short sequence in which he adds some effects and a soundtrack to a text by Michel Oleffe. After contacting is with the Belgian animation professional studio ODEC-Kid Cartoons, it races to the project. They quickly decided to produce an animation pilot. Michel Oleffe provides a scenario from the Mystery of Loch Ness, Olivier Grenson schematic characters and the pilot was presented at a congress of animation, the Azores
, in 1995. Given the interest generated by the pilot, a financial arrangement is concluded quickly and Odec-Kid Cartoons with French and Canadian partners get into production.
Olivier Grenson and Michel Oleffe, the creator and the publisher later release their comics in an cold, humourless, sinister rare 3D animated series for kids and adult that contain some crypt themes, fantasy, crimes, horror and suspense.
The series, which has 26 episodes of 26 minutes, will be completed in 1997. A dozen television except Belgium, France and Canada have already committed to the broadcast.
Hardboiled
Hardboiled crime fiction is a literary style, most commonly associated with detective stories, distinguished by the unsentimental portrayal of violence and sex. The style was pioneered by Carroll John Daly in the mid-1920s, popularized by Dashiell Hammett over the course of the decade, and refined...
animated television series developed with the collaboration of Belgium, France and the Canada broadcasts, the 26 episodes for 26 minutes series, based most of the comics The Adventures of Carland Cross by two Belgians, Olivier Grenson and Michel Oleffe, tell the stories of an fictional British private investigator specialized in curious and inexplicable case. The series aired late 1996 under the French-language title Carland Coss and in other markets such as Spanish as Las aventuras de Carland Cross.
In this series, only 3 comics stories of the 26 episodes were used: The Golem, The Monster Under Sea (The Tunnel) and The Mysteries of The Loch Ness.
Although the aired series remains unknown in international television, the animated television series was a success in the late 1990s to early 2000s in European countries such as Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and South America, especially in Argentina. Nowadays the series is no longer aired, except in Belgium and Swiss broadcasts.
Plot
Carland CrossCarland Cross (Character)
Carland Cross is a fictional character and the main protagonist in the series. Created by Belgian author and drawer Michel Oleffe and Olivier Grenson....
, a typical British private detective, investigations move the viewer to the most curious and spectacular scenery: enigmatic ancient civilizations with its ruins and graphics, forbidden regions, strange inexplicable murders, criminal Satanic cursed places, mysterious plots, cities deserted and most diverse monsters against those who will be fighting a smart combination of adventure, information and development with high doses of fantasy. It's universe of choice is the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
especially in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
where the mysterious drowned city of fog, crime is everywhere and with it, dread and horror, it is including some other countries in Europe and the World of the '30s.
Protagonist
Carland CrossCarland Cross (Character)
Carland Cross is a fictional character and the main protagonist in the series. Created by Belgian author and drawer Michel Oleffe and Olivier Grenson....
: He is a very cold and methodical British private investigator from Baker Street in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, working alongside the police official. He shares its investigations with his pupil, Andy White, the aristocrat fervent admirer Medwenna Simpson and often helped by the Superintendent Marmaduke Wingfield.
Heroes
- Andy White: Born in WhitechapelWhitechapelWhitechapel is a built-up inner city district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, London, England. It is located east of Charing Cross and roughly bounded by the Bishopsgate thoroughfare on the west, Fashion Street on the north, Brady Street and Cavell Street on the east and The Highway on the...
in 1916, Andrew White is Cross's hothead pupil. Although the teenager is an angry, feisty, go-getter, physically athletic, he is wity and has great difficulty in composing a capacity, but unlike his mentor, his heart is gold and a promising young amateur detective. Its essential function in the series is to seek explanations, undertook and forcing to write the memoirs of his master Carland Cross, who is a loner to the point for readers. It also happens, by his clumsiness, bouncing action where we least expect it. His humble origins also enable it to maintain close ties with the disadvantaged that detectives meet regularly during their investigations.
- Mrs. Stone: Apparently aged about sixty years, the sympathetic Mildred Stone is the governess and a fabulous cooker. It also ensures that the Cross and White are properly fed, which oversees the detective although she complains all the time of its delicious cuisine. Mrs. Stone disagrees occupation exercised his two proteges.
- Medwenna Simpson: Partially inspired Medwenna McGuire, heroin comics album of "The Mystery of Loch Ness" was created for the series. This beautiful aristocrat with green eyes and red mane is a novelist. Since her unexpected encounter with Carland Cross in the Epsom DerbyEpsom DerbyThe Derby Stakes, popularly known as The Derby, internationally as the Epsom Derby, and under its present sponsor as the Investec Derby, is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies...
, Miss Simpson got the idea to write the biography of the great detective. To do this, it investigates constantly on the following activities and even in some of his expeditions. They became close collaborators. Even if it does not say, she is in love with Cross, who is not impervious to the charm and elegance of this sublime woman.
- Marmaduke Wingfield: One of London Superintendent of Police, Wingfield has a good sense of bulletproof. Gruff, grumpy, and nervous, he knows he is overwhelmed by the complexities and sometimes grudgingly admit the intellectual superiority of Carland Cross, which is sensitive to boundaries and the susceptibility of his old friend, also admires deeply. He does not believe in ghosts, and yield to Carland Cross to that evidence. In the series, Marmaduke Wingfield embodies the authority and force only the rank of Superintendent can mobilize when the circumstances and necessities of the investigation so require. His relations with Carland Cross are complex. Often complicit, they may also be competitors.
Villains
- Murdock: The main antagonist in most series and Carland Cross sinister arch-enemy. Murdock is an prussian great international adventurer, mercenaryMercenaryA mercenary, is a person who takes part in an armed conflict based on the promise of material compensation rather than having a direct interest in, or a legal obligation to, the conflict itself. A non-conscript professional member of a regular army is not considered to be a mercenary although he...
, smuggler and spySPYSPY is a three-letter acronym that may refer to:* SPY , ticker symbol for Standard & Poor's Depositary Receipts* SPY , a satirical monthly, trademarked all-caps* SPY , airport code for San Pédro, Côte d'Ivoire...
, wounded in the left hand by Carland Cross in 1914 as fighting for the Kaizer. He has long silver hair, wears one of the most beautiful effect; a metal prosthesis, a monocle, cigarette holder and deadly dangerous weapon, it is specific to the animated series. He is an cruel, ruthless, stateless, venal, cynical and diabolical psychopath. His field is the great conspiracy of power, the megalomaniacal project. Opposed to any form of discipline, breaking with all the rulers, thirsting for power, conspiracy and revenge. Murdock has a score to settle with England because of Carland Cross. The main similarity from its sworn enemy, women do not interest him, if only he uses them as instruments of its projects. Murdock hates Carland Cross but that hatred in the closer. He viscerally need an enemy and it can only be Carland Cross, why he happens to show him a touch of humanity.
- Snoops: Murdock's ruthless henchman, Bardolph Snoops is physically a sort of big oaf in thick skull, long black hair. He is somewhat intelligent, a bit naïve, coward and has limited conversation.
Conception and History
Carland Cross's crime comicsCrime comics
Crime comics is a genre of American comic books and format of crime fiction. The genre was originally popular in the 1940s and 1950s and is marked by a moralistic editorial tone and graphic depictions of violence and criminal activity. Crime comics began in 1942 with the publication of Crime Does...
created in 1990 is inspired such as Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Christie DBE was a British crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best remembered for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections , and her successful West End plays.According to...
, Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle DL was a Scottish physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, generally considered a milestone in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger...
, William Hope Hodgson
William Hope Hodgson
William Hope Hodgson was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consisting of essays, short fiction, and novels, spanning several overlapping genres including horror, fantastic fiction and science fiction. Early in his writing career he dedicated effort to poetry, although few of his...
and Jean Ray novels. In 1994 Olivier Grenson had the idea to take a computer animation of Carland Cross. With a friend, owner of the studio ASAP
ASAP
-Music and television:* ASAP , a hard rock band fronted by Adrian Smith* "ASAP" , a song by Australian girl group Bardot* "ASAP" -Music and television:* ASAP (band), a hard rock band fronted by Adrian Smith* "ASAP" (Bardot song), a song by Australian girl group Bardot* "ASAP" -Music and...
, he begins to select a series of images in albums and edit them into a short sequence in which he adds some effects and a soundtrack to a text by Michel Oleffe. After contacting is with the Belgian animation professional studio ODEC-Kid Cartoons, it races to the project. They quickly decided to produce an animation pilot. Michel Oleffe provides a scenario from the Mystery of Loch Ness, Olivier Grenson schematic characters and the pilot was presented at a congress of animation, the Azores
Azores
The Archipelago of the Azores is composed of nine volcanic islands situated in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, and is located about west from Lisbon and about east from the east coast of North America. The islands, and their economic exclusion zone, form the Autonomous Region of the...
, in 1995. Given the interest generated by the pilot, a financial arrangement is concluded quickly and Odec-Kid Cartoons with French and Canadian partners get into production.
Olivier Grenson and Michel Oleffe, the creator and the publisher later release their comics in an cold, humourless, sinister rare 3D animated series for kids and adult that contain some crypt themes, fantasy, crimes, horror and suspense.
The series, which has 26 episodes of 26 minutes, will be completed in 1997. A dozen television except Belgium, France and Canada have already committed to the broadcast.
Season 1 (1996)
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