Elephant cartoon on RTE in the 80s.

darkdubh

There was this cartoon about a musical elephant that they were always showing in the 80s.I cant remember what it was called,but it always ended with him playing avariety of instruments with his trunk.Anyone else remember it?

seanybiker

hmm i can barely remember yesterday although that does sound familiar

AKK

Was it 'Nelly the Elephant'?? Can't remember the show but remember da tune.

peanuthead

"Nelly the Elephant packed her trunk
And said good-bye to the circus,
Off she went with a trumpety trump,
Trump, trump, trump!

The head of the heard was calling,
from far, far away...

...Okay thats all I can remember off hand, anyone wanna help me out?

starn

I think it was Babar. Give me a minute and Ill find some video of it for you


Edit:

After Babar witnesses the slaughter of his beloved mother, he flees from the jungle and finds his way to Paris where he is befriended by the Old Lady. Babar eventually returns to the Elephant realm following the death of the previous King, who had eaten some poisonous mushrooms. Babar is crowned king, marries his cousin Celeste, and founds the city of Celesteville. Babar, who likes to wear a bright green suit, introduces a very French form of Western civilization to the elephants, and causes them to dress in Western attire.

Among Babar's other associates are the monkey Zephir, the old elephant counsellors Cornelius and Pompadour (Pompadour was created for the Babar TV series), his cousin Arthur, and his children, Pom, Flora and Alexander. Later, a second daughter, Isabelle, was introduced. The Old Lady comes to live in the Kingdom as an honoured guest. Despite the presence of these counsellors, Babar's rule seems to be totally independent of any elected body, and completely autocratic.

Besides his Westernizing policies, Babar engages in warfare with the warlike rhinoceroses, who are led by Lord Rataxes.

peanuthead

starn wrote: »

I think it was Babar. Give me a minute and Ill find some video of it for you

Babar was a prince or something, he lived in a castle. Oh I loved that

lostexpectation

that a hilarious synopsis starn, thats from wikipedia, hahaha

Some writers, notably Herbert R. Kohl and Vivian Paley [1] have argued that, although superficially delightful, the stories are politically and morally offensive and can be seen as a justification for colonialism.


Some writers, notably Herbert R. Kohl and Vivian Paley [1] have argued that, although superficially delightful, the stories are politically and morally offensive and can be seen as a justification for colonialism. Others argue that the French civilisation described in the early books had already been destroyed by the Great War and the books were originally an exercise in nostalgia for pre 1914 France. Ariel Dorfman’s The Empire’s Old Clothes [2] is another highly critical view, in which he concludes, "In imagining the independence of the land of the elephants, Jean de Brunhoff anticipates, more than a decade before history forced Europe to put it into practice, the theory of neocolonialism." Author Adam Gopnik has a different point of view. In Freeing the Elephants [3] he writes that it "is not an unconscious expression of the French colonial imagination; it is a self-conscious comedy about the French colonial imagination and its close relation to the French domestic imagination. The gist ... is explicit and intelligent: the lure of the city, of civilization, of style and order and bourgeois living is real, for elephants as for humans." He concludes that the satisfaction derived from Babar is based on the knowledge that "while it is a very good thing to be an elephant, still, the life of an elephant is dangerous, wild, and painful. It is therefore a safer thing to be an elephant in a house near a park."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babar_the_Elephant

i reckon its satire

mikom

It's Hamilton the musical elephant.
Trust me on this.

starn

I knew there was a reason I never liked Babar, aside from the cartoomn being boring as Fvuck. Cultural bloody imperialism. Now lets have a look at those Tin Tin books

byte

I was gonna say Moomins, but the more I think about it, I don't think they were elephants!

Ann22

Don't know what that was. The earliest elephant cartoon I remember was 'Little Blue'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxXSUyc3BAU

darkdubh

mikom wrote: »

It's Hamilton the musical elephant.
Trust me on this.

Thats the one,thanks.

feelio

Help, does anyone have the link of that tv advert of the sheepdog turning evil at night with them red eyes joining a pack of dogs killing sheep at night?

Owen

Here's a clip on Youtube of Hamilton. I'd totally forgotten all about this great cartoon until this thread came along, thanks OP :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZnYhnEGO_4

John Player

Babar was stupid, elephants reading papers and putting on dressing gowns and none of them even had fingers

Tif

PaintDoctor wrote: »

Here's a clip on Youtube of Hamilton. I'd totally forgotten all about this great cartoon until this thread came along, thanks OP :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZnYhnEGO_4

I had forgotten about this too - I was full sure OP was on about 'Nelly the Elephant' as well

Dudess

Oh I bloody love these threads about the cheap-ass cartoons RTE used to show in the 80s!

Yep, I remember Hamilton. He was a product of the Halas & Batchelor animation company, which seemed to be where most of those cartoons on RTE came from: http://www.halasandbatchelor.co.uk/Films.asp

Barnaby was another one - the kid who hung out with an "Oirish" flying fairy godfather. Autobahn - the one featuring that alien guy going through a wind tunnel (questions about that crop up quite often here). And The Butterfly Ball, which featured animation from the Beatles guy, I think.

feelio, that dog/sheep public info ad was discussed on this thread I started a while back (an actual retro thread on All Things Retro :eek:) http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055081271

PrettyBoy

John Player wrote: »

Babar was stupid, elephants reading papers and putting on dressing gowns and none of them even had fingers

They were talking elephants that lived in a castle, wore expensive jewellery and read the paper and the fact that they don't have fingers is what's bothering you?

Babar was quality, I forgot all about it.

Dudess

But they couldn't pick up all those things without fingers!

byte

Dudess wrote: »

But they couldn't pick up all those things without fingers!

They probably had human servants do it for them

darkdubh

feelio wrote: »

Help, does anyone have the link of that tv advert of the sheepdog turning evil at night with them red eyes joining a pack of dogs killing sheep at night?

Better late than never.

https://www.facebook.com/ballinrobetidytowns