I would like to see that. I remember Pogles Wood, some episodes of
which were not shown because they were considered too scary. The
episodes that were shown were still fairly scary.
Roger
On 12/7/05, Knut Mork Skagen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Dec 6, 2005, at 12:55, David Bircumshaw wrote:
>
> > I can elaborate:
>
> Not quite so bad, but a summary of what my own kids (5 and 3) watched a
> couple of days ago, an episode in a series running up till Christmas. A
> "nisse" is a Nordic variant of an elf:
>
> Moon Peak, featuring Girl Nisse, Mother & Father Nisse, and Cousin Nisse
>
> Scene 1:
>
> Father Nisse speaks to his family. "The mountain is calling me again."
> Girl Nisse implores him not to leave, but he has decided. "I'll be back
> in a few days." Exit Father.
>
> Scene 2:
>
> Mother wants Girl Nisse to pilfer some oats from the local farm, so she
> makes up a story: "When your father comes home he'll be hungry. And if
> we don't have any oatmeal for him to eat, he might just eat up all the
> blueberry potion." Girl, wide-eyed and frightened: "And then he'll
> become a giant!!" Girl consents to fetch oats.
>
> Scene 3:
>
> Father Nisse stands alone with his horse on the snowy peaks of Blue
> Mountain. "Why do you keep calling me?" Silence. "What is the answer?"
> Silence. "What happened that night so long ago??"
>
> Scene 4:
>
> Girl, fetching oats, meets her Cousin. Cousin teases girl over her
> father always being out travelling.
>
> Girl: "But he's a travelling nisse! He can't help it!"
> Cousin: "I know why he goes to the Blue Mountain. He's looking for your
> twin baby brother who fell out of the sleigh that night you were born
> many years ago."
> Girl: "?!"
>
> Scene 5:
>
> Father Nisse fetches water on Blue Mountain. His boots sink too deep in
> the snow for him to reach the stream, so he uses snowshoes. Long
> closeup on snowshoes trudging through snow.
>
> Scene 6:
>
> Girl: "Is it true? Did I have a baby brother who fell out of the sleigh
> on Blue Mountain?"
> Mother, weeping: "I don't want to talk about it. Ask your father."
>
> Girl leaves to search for Father on the snowy peaks of Blue Mountain.
>
> Scene 7:
>
> Girl finds snowshoe tracks and is convinced her father has eaten all
> the blueberry potion and has become a giant. She hides in his sleigh in
> despair.
>
> Eventually, father finds girl and comforts her. "It's true. You did
> have a twin baby brother. Blue Mountain took him. We don't know what's
> become of him now. But we love you very much."
>
> End of episode.
>
>
> Not exactly "Sesame Street,"
>
> --Knut
>
>
>
> >
> > The Sveigersons, featuring Erik and Erika.
> >
> > Opening shot: a long delayed sunset, that never seems to end.
> >
> > Switch to: Erik (age 7) holding his head in his hands in gloom,
> > sitting on a
> > bare rock.
> >
> > ERIK (to Erika): "I'm depressed"
> >
> > Pan to, after quick shot of Erika (age 5) waking to alertness on her
> > slightly smaller bare rock, wide sweep of denuded landscape
> > occasionally
> > peppered by deserted crumbling villages, starving goats, postcards from
> > Grimsby or Skegness saying 'Glad you're not here', upside-down American
> > flags, overhead distant Russian clouds of Slavic gloom threatening.
> >
> > 20 minutes later:
> >
> > ERIKA: "The world is too much with us"
> >
> > ERIK nods his head, slowly, ruefully.
> >
> > In the distance DEATH is seen flapping his wings on a hill.
> >
> > 10 minutes pause. Slow fade. End of programme.
> >
> > Best
> >
> > Dave
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "David Bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 11:29 AM
> > Subject: Re: Sex and the Artist
> >
> >
> >> Knut, I like this! I have this vision of kids tv produced by Ingmar
> > Bergman
> >> .....
> >>
> >> brilliant
> >>
> >> Best
> >>
> >> Dave
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Knut Mork Skagen" <[log in to unmask]>
> >> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 11:07 AM
> >> Subject: Re: Sex and the Artist
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Dec 6, 2005, at 03:34, George Hunka wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I can't speak for Europeans, but I think we Americans are a little
> >>>> afraid of silences and empty spaces; we want to put something there,
> >>>> make some noise, have a presence.
> >>>
> >>> Scandinavians, at least, live almost exclusively off silences and
> >>> empty
> >>> spaces. Its influence reaches as far as children's television, which
> >>> is
> >>> full of anxious facial expressions, eery music, and dramatic pause.
> >>>
> >>> --Knut
> >
>
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