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Babar: King of the Elephants (1999)

There was another show before the animated "Babar."

[10/10 · 4 September 2005]

On TVO, a public TV network I subscribe to, there used to be a series called BABAR, which was in French and aired on Sunday evenings. This was based on the stories of BABAR, which I read as a child, at my beloved grandmother's house. The series was in live-action and was set in Paris; it was done by actors who were in costume and masked to look like the main characters. Possibly, the speech was dubbed as well. The series was authentic to the look of the original books right down to the clothing worn by the main characters, especially Babar's green suit. The show opened with a full face shot of Babar opening a disk with a drawing of himself on it with his (puppeteered) trunk.