Topic: OT: La Linea photographer

[Francois]

I don't know if anybody in the English speaking world remembers seeing a cartoon called La Linea in the early 80's?

The cartoon was often presented as an interlude between TV shows on National TV.
Yes, it was a time before ads and infomercials... ahh!

Well, I found them again.
Here is the link to "the Photographer"
http://www.tv5.org/TV5Site/webtv/player1.php?id_video=2985

No knowledge of any language required (its a mix of sound effects English French and Italian )

[Marcello]

La Linea was created by Osvaldo Cavandoli in 1969 and was adopted by Lagostina, an Italian maker of stewpots, to advertise their products. La Linea speaks Italian with a Lombard accent.

Ciao Marcello

[Francois]

I didn't know La Linea did cooking pot ads! Quite funny in a way.
I also didn't know they spoke like that in Lombardy...
As far as I can tell, it's a few words of French to start with (une ligne ici), then some mumbling (I don't speak much Italian but can hardly make out any words)...

Still, the fun thing about it is that it's so universal!
They have 56 shows on the TV5 world site. I ripped them all at the public library and made them into a DVD!

[Marcello]

I didn't know La Linea did cooking pot ads! Quite funny in a way.
I also didn't know they spoke like that in Lombardy...
As far as I can tell, it's a few words of French to start with (une ligne ici), then some mumbling (I don't speak much Italian but can hardly make out any words)...

Still, the fun thing about it is that it's so universal!
They have 56 shows on the TV5 world site. I ripped them all at the public library and made them into a DVD!

Well, at least in the italian version. I don't what happens when dubbed.