Do you know the company Dingo Pictures, which massacres your favorite cartoons both in terms of graphics and dubbing?
5- What is Dingo Pictures?
Dingo Pictures is a company specializing in the publishing of children’s books and animated films: short, medium and (more rarely) feature films. Its catalog includes 29 titles inspired by tales or true stories adapted for children (Aladdin, Pocahontas, Balto) which have often fallen into the public domain and without paying the slightest donation to Disney, while several Goofy films follow the same plot. as certain successful feature films from the big-eared firm.
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“Toys”, Toy Story Goofy version
Goofy Pictures also released some video games like The Detective MouseJungle Football and Dinosaur Adventure for Playstation 2, among others.
4- Who is behind Dingo Pictures?
Ludwig Ickert is a music composer, former member of a German rock’n’roll group which had its small success in the early 1960s including a cover of Black is Black (which will give the famous Black is black of Johnny). It was with his wife Roswitha Haas, author of children’s stories, that he founded Media Concept, aka “Dingo Productions Haas und Ickert Partnerschaft, Filmemacher”, better known as Dingo Pictures.
Roswitha Haas died in 2015 and Ludwig Ickert in 2019, aged 75. Friends of the family inherited Dingo Pictures and today manage this legacy of nearly 30 animated films.
3- How it all started
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Excerpt from Perseus (only the background scenery moves)
At the beginning of the 90s, Dingo Pictures signed an agreement with the company “LUI.TV” and produced three films: a version of the myth of Perseus, Siegfried – taken from the Nibelungen – and an investigation of Easter bunnies going in search of their most beautiful egg, which was stolen from them. Subsequently, Dingo Pictures took sole control and launched its recipe.
2- The Goofy “paw”
The studio’s technique is simple: adapt children’s books written by Roswitha Haas into short and medium-length films. The characters are very poorly animated on often simplistic painted settings. Many of the animals and their animations are recycled from film to film, and the dubbing is completely random.
You just have to watch one of the company’s films to realize that the dubbing actors are amateurs. We sometimes hear the sheets of the text being turned and the hesitations of the “actors” over the directions. If the French dubbing is sometimes catastrophic (see Aladin below), the original version is often not better.
Worse still, in VF as in VO, there is a sound/image lag in most feature films, adding difficulty to something that was already difficult enough to follow.
Most of the stories brought to the screen by Disney will be entitled to their Goofy version, with slightly different titles, whether: In Search of the Dalmatians, The Aristos, Notre Dame, Pocahontas: the Indian Legend, The King of Lions or even The Lord of the Jungle.
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Adult Nala, Pan-Pan, Tic et Tac… They are in “Les Foot du stadium”
If the stories are sometimes new, the aesthetic and the names of the characters are taken from their successful animated films, whether from Disney or Dreamworks.
Some titles even add failed drawings of real actors to serve as narrators, as in The Sword of Camelot:
Their latest animated film, Little Hexe Arischawas released in 2005. It has some digital effects going beyond the amateurism of the studio’s beginnings.
1- Posterity
The firm and its productions have experienced renewed interest in France, notably thanks to the famous videographer Player of the Attic, which devoted a program to Aladdin and the magic lamp. Faced with the public’s fascination with these naughty people (his video has 2.6 million views to date), the creator regularly watches Goofy films and comments on them, to the great pleasure of his community.
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Player from the Grenier in front of the Bremen Musicians
Particularly thanks to these videos, a whole new audience has discovered the company and enjoys watching these babes with relish, as fans of the channel had done before them. Epic Teaching of Historywho also watched or reviewed certain films.
A documentary provisionally titled: “Dingo Pictures: The Story of a Mockbuster Legend” or “Yee: Behind the Meme of Goofy Pictures” seems to have been financing on Kickstarter for quite a while. For the moment, it has not yet been actually produced. To be continued…