Why is Tintin's First Adventure so Controversial?

Politics Can Still Make Hergé's First Story an Uncomfortable Read

Starving children must declare their allegiance to the communist party to be fed, the communists win an election with guns not votes, and English visitors see what appear to be functioning factories which are just puppet shows. In other words, Tintin, who is arrested and taken to a torture chamber, sees exactly what Hergé's editor, a Roman Catholic priest, wanted him to see in the land of the godless communists.

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Tintin's Adventures Have Already Been Filmed

Find Tintin on the Internet Movie Database

These are listed in chronological order, with English titles for consistency.

The Crab with the Golden Claws (1947)
Hergé's Adventures of Tintin (television series; 1958 - 1962)
Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece (1961)
Tintin and the Blue Oranges (1964)
Tintin and the Temple of the Sun (1969)
Tintin et la SGM (1970) - animated promotional short film (not included in IMDB)
Tintin and the Lake of Sharks (1972)
The Adventures of Tintin (television series; 1991)
The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn (2011)

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Parents, Children: Watch Tintin Films Online for Free

Jackson and Spielberg Aren't the First to Film Tintin's Adventures

While film fans and Tintin fans anxiously await Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg's 2011 film, The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn, you can get ahead of the crowd by watching for free online a number of older films and television series based on Hergé's classic stories of Tintin, the ageless reporter, and his droll canine buddy Snowy (or Milou, in the original French), including the best films in the most nearly complete Tintin series ever made.

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Yes, they are free!

Keep Up with Tintin News, Books, and Films

Tintin's Adventures in Books and Film Maintain Internet Popularity

Tintin's adventures began eighty years ago, when he first appeared in a conservative Roman Catholic newspaper in Belgium. Tintin was created by Georges Remi, under the penname Hergé (as his initials, reversed, are pronounced in French).

Through twenty-four books (albums, as they are usually called), Tintin rambles around the globe and through the twentieth century with his canine sidekick Snowy (Milou, in the original French), joined by a variety of characters (from an operatic soprano to an abominable snowman) and legions of readers in some seventy languages.

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Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson Bring Tintin Adventures to the Big Screen

The First of Three High-Budget, High-Tech Tintin Films Premieres in 2011

Steven Spielberg, whose characters range from Indiana Jones to Private Ryan, has dream-teamed with Peter Jackson, who brought the worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings to the screen three times (and will return to Middle Earth as producer of two films of The Hobbit), to lens three adventures of Tintin, the most famous comic book character most Americans have never heard of.

Tintin is about to become as big a celebrity in the US, as he is in many other countries, since these two Hollywood legends are throwing amazing technology (and even more amazing sums of money) into a motion-capture trilogy for which the technology of the trans-Pacific collaboration itself is as complex as that of the film.

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The Twenty-four Tintin Adventures

Georges Prosper Remi (1907-1983), better known by the pen name Hergé, created the character Tintin, who first appeared in 1929. Hergé wrote a total of twenty-four Tintin stories (the last, Tintin and the Alph-Art, was not completed at his death).

He specified that no one else was to write Tintin stories, but due to the popularity of the character, there are quite a few parodies, pornographic versions, and political versions of Tintin, which the Hergé Foundation tries to prohibit.

The following are the English titles of the twenty-four Tintin books by Hergé, with links to articles. The first is available only in black and white; the others are available in color.

Tintin in the Land of the Soviets
Tintin in the Congo
Tintin in America
Cigars of the Pharaoh
The Blue Lotus
The Broken Ear
The Black Island
King Ottokar's Sceptre
The Crab with the Golden Claws
The Shooting Star
The Secret of the Unicorn
Red Rackhams Treasure
The Seven Crystal Balls
Prisoners of the Sun
Land of Black Gold
Destination Moon
Explorers on the Moon
The Calculus Affair
The Red Sea Sharks
Tintin in Tibet
The Castafiore Emerald
Flight 714
Tintin and the Picaros
Tintin and Alph-Art

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Tintin Lives!

With news of a trilogy of Tintin films by Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson, I realized that most of us in the United States have no more appreciation for Tintin than we have of soccer. So, with this blog, I hope to change that - about Tintin (I'll leave soccer to someone else). I'll be writing some articles when I can't find the information already available on the Internet, and I'll be pointing you to some unlike Tintin links.

So, welcome. Think of me as Snowy, Tintin's faithful and rather cynical canine sidekick (whether I share Snowy's taste for strong drink, you don't need to know), tagging along on the adventure.