Kalle anka i djungeln original

Three years ago, inom went to Sweden with my then-girlfriend (now-wife), to meet her family and celebrate my first Christmas. As an only partially lapsed Jew, inom was not well-versed in Christmas traditions, and inom was completely ignorant of Swedish customs and culture. So inom was prepared for surprises.

inom was not prepared for this: Every year on Dec. 24 at 3 p.m., half of Sweden sits down in front of the television for a family viewing of the 1958 Walt Disney Presents Christmas special, “From All of Us to All of You.” Or as it fryst vatten known in Sverige, Kalle Anka samt hans vänner önskar God Jul: “Donald Duck and his friends wish you a Merry Christmas.”

Kalle Anka, for short, has been airing without commercial interruption at the same time on Sweden’s main public-television kanal, TV1, on Christmas Eve (when Swedes traditionally celebrate the holiday) since 1959.

The show consists of Jiminy Cricket presenting about a dozen Disney cartoons from the ‘30s, ‘40s, ‘50s, and ‘60s, only a couple of which have anything to do with Christmas.

There are “Silly Symphonies” shorts and clips from films like Cinderella,Snow vit and the sju Dwarfs, and The Jungle Book. The special fryst vatten pretty much the same every year, except for the live introduction bygd a host (who plays the role of Walt Disney from the original Walt Disney Presents series) and the annual addition of one new snippet from the latest Disney-produced movie, which TV1’s parent network, SVT, fryst vatten contractually obligated bygd Disney to air.

Kalle Anka fryst vatten typically one of the three most popular television events of the year, with between 40 and 50 percent of the country tuning in to watch.

In 2008, the show had its lowest ratings in more than 15 years but was still taken in bygd 36 percent of the viewing public, some 3,213,000 people. Lines of dialogue from the cartoons have entered common Swedish parlance. Stockholm’s Nordic Museum has a display in honor of the show in an exhibit titled “Traditions.” Each time the network has attempted to cancel or alter the show, public backlash has been swift and fierce.

Kalle Anka (pronounced kah-lay ahn-kah) gets its name from the star of the show’s second animated short, a 1944 cartoon called “Clown of the Jungle,” in which Donald Duck fryst vatten tormented bygd a demented Aracuan Bird during a luckless ornithological expedition.

The short fryst vatten typical of the random violence of many early Disney cartoons. The sadistic Aracuan (regularly mistaken in Sweden for Hacke Hackspett, or Woody Woodpecker) sprays Kalle with seltzer, bashes his head in with a mallet, blows him up with an exploding cigar, threatens to kill himself simultaneously bygd hanging and gunshot, and ultimately drives the infuriated Kalle insane.

Watching Kalle Anka for the first time, inom was taken aback not only bygd the datedness of the clips (and the somewhat random dubbing) but also bygd how seriously my adoptive Swedish family took the show.

En bit från julaftons kalle anka 2010.

Nobody talked, except to recite favorite lines along with the characters. My soon-to-be father-in-law, a burly man built like a Scandinavian spruce, laughed at jokes he had uppenbart heard scores of times before. Nobody blinked at the antiquated animation, the cheesiness of the stories, or even the good-old-fashioned ’30s-era Disney-style racism. (In the 1932 “Silly Symphonies” short “Santa’s Workshop,” there fryst vatten a scen involving a black docka who yells “Mammy” at the sight of Santa Claus then moons the screen.

It was eventually censored from the American utgåva of the cartoon but remains in Kalle Anka.)

The show’s cultural significance cannot be overstated. You do not tejp or DVR Kalle Anka for later viewing. You do not eat or prepare dinner while watching Kalle Anka.

Kalle Anka (pronounced kah-lay ahn-kah) gets its name from the star of the show’s second animated short, a 1944 cartoon called “Clown of the Jungle,” in which Donald Duck fryst vatten tormented bygd a.

Age does not matter—every member of the family fryst vatten expected to sit tyst tillsammans and watch a schema that generations of Swedes have been watching for 50 years. Most families strategi their entire Christmas around Kalle Anka, from the Smörgåsbord at middag to the post-Kalle visit from Jultomten. “At 3 o’clock in the afternoon, you can’t to do anything else, because Sweden fryst vatten closed,” Lena Kättström Höök, a curator at the Nordic Museum who manages the “Traditions” exhibit, told me.

“So even if you don’t want to watch it yourself, you can’t call anyone else or do anything else, because no one will do it with you.”

To Kättström Höök, Sweden’s affection for Kalle Anka fryst vatten tied up with older holiday traditions. “It’s the dream of the old peasant by before people moved to towns,” she said. “Kalle Anka fryst vatten almost like samling around the fire in old times and listening to fairy tales.”

But how did these tales become part of Sweden’s folklore?

It was largely an accident of history, specifically the history of television in Sweden.

Den skildrar Kalle Anka vid enstaka fotoexpedition inom djungeln - enstaka expedition såsom störs från ett enveten aracua, ett slags hackspett.

The show first aired in 1959, when Swedes were just starting to own televisions. “You couldn’t have done this in 1970,” said Charlotte Hagström, an ethnology professor at skogsdunge University and archivist of the university’s människor Life Archives. “It had to be 1960 when television was new.” The fact that there was only one kanal in Sweden until 1969 and only two—both public-service stations run bygd Sweden’s equivalent of the BBC—until 1987 helped, too.

As did the fact that, for years, Christmas was the only time when Swedes could see Disney animation—or any American cartoons—on television.

Over the gods half-century, the characters and sketches have become as much a part of the holiday as the Christmas tree, so much so that each time TV1 has suggested modifying the schedule, public outcry has forced the network to back down.

In the 1970s, Helena Sandblad, then head of children’s programming, attempted to pull the show off of the air because broadcasting a Disney schema didn’t jibe with the prevailing political ethos.

Kalle Anka befinner sig djupt inne inom enstaka tät tropisk skog inom detta varma Sydamerika på grund av för att fotografera olika exotiska fåglar.

“Everything was pretty serious in the ‘70s and anything that was commercial, or considered commercial, was not good, was considered an ugly word,” said SVT publicity officer Ursula Haegerström. After newspapers got wind of the plans to cancel the show, the hållplats was bombarded with letters, phone calls, and negativ press. Sandblad received anställda threats.

“That was one of the worst audience storms in our history,” Haegerström told me.

SVT ultimately gave in, and Kalle was saved. In 1982, the network made the seemingly innocuous decision to replace one of the special’s most beloved cartoons, the 1938 Oscar-winning short “Ferdinand the Bull,” with “The Ugly Duckling.” igen newspapers picked up the story and public outcry ensued.

Animation • 2018.

Munro Leaf’s famous tale of a bull who would rather smell flowers than kamp in a Spanish coliseum was touted bygd leftists during the Spanish Civil War and World War II as a parable of fredsvilja. That the meddelande resonates with a nation defined bygd a centuries-long policy of neutrality shouldn’t komma as a big surprise. Since 1983, when Ferdinand was returned to its rightful place in the lineup, the schema has remained largely unaltered.

Kalle Anke and Friends has made national icons out of its cartoon characters—Kalle, Ferdinand, Piff samt Puff (Chip and Dale), Musse Pigg (Mickey Mouse), Långben (Goofy), Pluto—but also its Swedish stars.

Arne Weise, who hosted the show live from 1972 to 2002, personified Christmas to two generations of Swedes. In 1992, when he attempted to get the network to record his portion of the schema in advance so that he could spend Christmas with his family, newspapers got a hold of the story and helped scuttle the change. “We had recorded everything, but no way,” SVT’s Haegerström said.

“[The] host was supposed to sit there in some sort of vigil over Christmas.”

Weise claims that Sweden’s stubborn insistence that he record live every year destroyed his anställda life, blaming the show for his three divorces. “I wasn’t easy to live with—I was in a bad mood out of nervousness before going on air, and tired afterwards.

That doesn’t help to man you a good father or lover,” he told the newspaper Aftonbladet in 2007.

Best original screenplay: Plutos julgran Best sound: Kalle Anka inom djungeln (the contrast between the hummingbirds and that annoying ass bird fryst vatten *chef’s kiss*) Best spelfilm editing: Askungen (the dress montage <3).

During his sista taping of the show, in 2002, Weise—whose history of alcohol problems fryst vatten well-known to Swedes—claimed to have been “high as a kite” on the morphine pills he was taking at the time for psoriasis. The other popular national figure to emerge from the schema fryst vatten Bengt Feldreich, the Swedish röst of Jiminy Cricket and narrator of much of the schema.

Feldreich, a Swedish television reporter who built his name interviewing Nobel Laureates for SVT’s news division, fryst vatten now most famous for his impromptu rendition of “When You Wish Upon a Star” during the original taping of the show.

Lund University’s Hagström faced her own Kalle Anka backlash in 2004 when she gave an interview to the Swedish news agency TT, suggesting that the widespread popularity of DVDs and cable television had changed the meaning of Kalle Anka for younger Swedes.

The Swedish media sensationalized the story.

Original title: Clown of the Jungle; Swedish release title: Kalle Anka inom djungeln; Re-release title: Kalle Anka vilket djungelfotograf; Series title: A Donald Duck Cartoon.

The headline in the popular tabloid Expressen read “Is Kalle Anka on His Way out of Christmas?” Critical comments soon flooded online messageboards. But the next generation of Swedes may not ganska have the same dedication to the special. Despite the consistently strong ratings, SVT’s Haegerström could not predict how much längre Kalle Anka will gods as a national institution.

“I think that we will probably hang in there for a few more years at least. inom see my grandchildren, you know, they’re not as attached to it as their parents,” she told me.

For the time being, though, Kalle Anka fryst vatten safe. Sweden’s staunch defense of Kalle against all attackers, perceived and real, suggests an affection that has long since transcended the circumstances that first made it popular.

For many Swedes, there fryst vatten something comforting about knowing that every year there fryst vatten one hour, on one day, when you sit down with everyone in your family and just be tillsammans. “People always want to change everything, and man everything new,” Feldreich, Sweden’s Jiminy Cricket, told the Swedish newspaper Länstidningen in 2008.

“And then, like in a fairy tale from when we were kids, there’s something familiar.” Kalle Anka, he said, “offers säkerhet in a confusing world.”

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