North_Ranger
Staff member
I don't know how this happened, but somehow I found myself on YouTube, listening to old themes from animated series I used to watch as a kid. Thought I'd share a few with you (and give you the English-language versions when available 
):
The French Il Était Une Fois (Once Upon A Time) series, ranging from 1970s to the early 2000s: a kind of "edutainment" for children, that at least for me sparked a life-long love for history, inventions and the like. The older series are a bit dated and sometimes loony, but I have all save Il Était Une Fois... La vie on DVD. The last of the series, Il Était Une Fois... notre Terre (2008) suffered heavily from preachiness, unfortunately. But luckily there's still the good ol' series:
History:
Space:
The Human Body:
History of the Americas (came out in 1991, in expectation of the discovery's 500th anniversary):
Inventors:
Explorers:
Alfred J. Kwak (Hello, Bubble! ^_^): a very mature children's series, as it touched on various 'adult' themes of the time, from South African Apartheid to overpopulation, immigration, populist politics - heck, even the Iran-Iraq war:
Around the World with Willy Fog:
And in English:
):The French Il Était Une Fois (Once Upon A Time) series, ranging from 1970s to the early 2000s: a kind of "edutainment" for children, that at least for me sparked a life-long love for history, inventions and the like. The older series are a bit dated and sometimes loony, but I have all save Il Était Une Fois... La vie on DVD. The last of the series, Il Était Une Fois... notre Terre (2008) suffered heavily from preachiness, unfortunately. But luckily there's still the good ol' series:
History:
Space:
The Human Body:
History of the Americas (came out in 1991, in expectation of the discovery's 500th anniversary):
Inventors:
Explorers:
Alfred J. Kwak (Hello, Bubble! ^_^): a very mature children's series, as it touched on various 'adult' themes of the time, from South African Apartheid to overpopulation, immigration, populist politics - heck, even the Iran-Iraq war:
Around the World with Willy Fog:
And in English:
