Alfred J. Kwak Filmstripboek Deel 1

Alfred J. Kwak Filmstripboek
"De Eieren",
"Het Verjaardagsfeestje",
"Het Kroonjuweel"
Alfred J. Kwak Filmstripboek; "De Eieren",; "Het Verjaardagsfeestje",; "Het Kroonjuweel"
Deel 1 →
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Written by	Herman van Veen
Artwork by	Harald Siepermann; Hans Bacher
Typesetting and layout	Ton de Jong jr.
Publisher	PrimaMedia bv (Ton de Jong)
Language	Dutch
Release date	2006
Number of pages	50
Binding method	Hardcover
ISBN	978 90 77217 12 2

The first part of the filmstrip book series contains faithful filmstrips of the first three episode of the animated series, "De Eieren" (lit. 'The Eggs'), "Het Verjaardagsfeestje" (lit. 'The Birthday Party') and "Het Kroonjuweel" (lit. 'The Crown Jewels'). This book uses screengrabs from a Standard Definition quality source, likely the Disky DVD release from the same year.

Story

Summary

This book faithfully retells the story of Episode 1, Episode 2 and Episode 3 of the animated series. Please check the relevant pages for a more elaborate summary.

De Eieren

When Henk de Mol and Johan Sebastiaan Kwak meet at the start of spring, Henk introduces Johan to Anna van de Polder. While Johan was originally skeptical of marrying, it is not long before the two fall in love and get married. Anna and Johan make 7 eggs and Johan is tasked to watch them as they are threatened by the cynical Schor de Kraai and his wife, the egg-thief Rap de Kiekendief and Snel de Snoek. Luckily Johan makes sure the egg that was stolen returns. As he does it hatches. Henk, Anna and Johan name the child Alfred Jodocus Kwak after Henk's grandfather. The other six eggs hatch as well, giving Alfred 3 brothers and 3 sisters.

Just as the family is reunited after Alfred had wandered off and Henk had returned him, the ground is torn apart by construction workers. Based on plans by Olaf Nijlpaard, funded by A. Rokodil, the Beton Maatschappij, led by Bart 'Beton' Bever is transforming their once peaceful pasture into a theme park called Groot Speelgoedland. Henk tries to convince Johan to move his family from Breed Rietland to Groot Waterland to a mine house that was once owned by Henk's grandfather. Alfred sneaks out in the middle of the night to visit the theme park, but gets scared by an Animatronic Gorilla.

Het Verjaardagsfeestje

Continuity

This book retells the story of Episode 1, Episode 2 and Episode 3 of the animated series. Please check the relevant pages for more info.

Stip does not speak in the original episode, but they get voice lines here anyway.

Errata

While the next book improves on the quality of the screengrabs used, this book uses nearest-neighbor interpolation image scaling making it possible to see the individual pixels each picture is comprised of. In some cases frame blending can even be seen, resulting in a doubling effect in the image. Another quality comparison can be made with colors. While part 1 uses bright colors and high contrast, part 2's color pallet is more muted.

Cast

Character gallery

The characters in order of appearance.

Main staff list

© 2006 Herman van Veen Studios BV, Soest
© 1989 Harlekijn/Van Veen Siepermann, Bacher & JFA productions BV
Exclusive license given by Herman van Veen Studios BV, Soest, Stephan Dunweg

Illustrations: Hans Bacher, Harald Siepermann^{[note 2]}
Text: Herman van Veen
Typesetting and layout': Ton de Jong jr.
Distribution': Joosten & De Haas
Special thanks': Hans Huijsing, Maan Jansen, Manon Kotvis and Letja Verstijnen

ISBN: 978 90 77217 12 2
CIP
NUR 361

Production notes

The book opens with a foreword from Herman van Veen, co-signed tongue-in-cheek by Alfred Jodocus Kwak.

Original Dutch
Voor u ligt het eerste filmstripboek uit een serie van 17 Alfred Jodocus Kwak boeken. Hiermee is een lang gekoesterde wens in vervulling gegaan, om van de 52 filmafleveringen van Alfred en zijn vrienden boeken uit te geven. Het bleek geen eenvoudige klus om van bewegende beelden, drukbare plaatjes te knippen. De charme waarin de films zijn gemaakt, met zijn mooie kleurrijke omgeving, is in de boeken gelukkig nog helemaal aanwezig. Om een voorbeeld te geven van de technische hoogstandjes; een aflevering van een tv-serie duurt circa 25 minuten en bevat ongeveer 36000 filmframes. Hieruit moeten per aflevering 100 plaatjes geknipt worden. Vervolgens moet een tekst-scenario worden gemaakt en de teksten met tekstballon bij de plaatjes worden geplaatst. Het geheel komt overeen met het verhaal van de tv-serie.
Veel lees- en kijkplezier,
Herman van Veen én Alfred Jodocus Kwak.
Translation
Before you lies the first filmstrip book in a series of 17 Alfred Jodocus Kwak books. With this, a long-held wish has come true to publish books based on the 52 film episodes of Alfred and his friends. It turned out to be no simple task to cut printable images from moving pictures. Fortunately, the charm with which the films were made, along with their beautiful, colorful setting, are still entirely present in the books. To give an example of the technical feats involved: an episode of a TV series lasts about 25 minutes and contains approximately 36,000^{[note 3]} film frames. From these, 100 images must be selected for each episode. Then a script must be created, and the texts need to be placed in speech bubbles alongside the images. The result matches the story of the TV series.
Enjoy reading and viewing,
Herman van Veen and Alfred Jodocus Kwak

Changes from the original

Changes from the episodes

The following lists all the changes between the Episode 1, Episode 2 and Episode 3 of the animated series and this book.

The book remains largely faithful to the original episodes, though it includes additional dialogue in scenes where none was present. In some instances, dialogue is condensed to improve flow. Additionally, the sequence of certain frames has been rearranged.

De Eieren

Notes

↑ Likely Siepermann and Bacher are credited for character designs and background designs for the animated series, but it is unlikely they were involved in the creation of this book.
↑ Likely Siepermann and Bacher are credited for character designs and background designs for the animated series, but it is unlikely they were involved in the creation of this book.
↑ This calculation is based on 25 minutes multiplied by 60 seconds and 24 frames per second. Alfred J. Kwak was originally rendered as 24 frames per second, as per the standard of animation in Japan, however the 24 frames per second, would be translated using frame blending to 29.97fps, a format more suitable for Japanese television, upping the amount of frames in total to 45,000. This is not to be confused with other claims from Harlekijn Holland employees saying that there were 36,000 individual drawn frames for the animated series as the series was animated on a variation of 1s, 2s, 3s and beyond.

References

[1] Likely Siepermann and Bacher are credited for character designs and background designs for the animated series, but it is unlikely they were involved in the creation of this book.

[2] Likely Siepermann and Bacher are credited for character designs and background designs for the animated series, but it is unlikely they were involved in the creation of this book.

[3] This calculation is based on 25 minutes multiplied by 60 seconds and 24 frames per second. Alfred J. Kwak was originally rendered as 24 frames per second, as per the standard of animation in Japan, however the 24 frames per second, would be translated using frame blending to 29.97fps, a format more suitable for Japanese television, upping the amount of frames in total to 45,000. This is not to be confused with other claims from Harlekijn Holland employees saying that there were 36,000 individual drawn frames for the animated series as the series was animated on a variation of 1s, 2s, 3s and beyond.

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