In French

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" Who never wished to see the sovereign sun guiding his steps in the heart of the Inca country towards the richness and the history of the Mysterious Cities of Gold ? Child of the sun, you course ground sky... " Narrator " Remember Esteban, the son of the sun, Tao, Zia with the research of the legendary cities entirely built out of gold. They was every Wednesday after midday of this year 1982. A whole universe created thanks to a beautiful collaboration between French and of Japanese who knew each other already well at the time. " Deyriès " We were in Tokyo manufacturing Ulysses 31 and Jean Chalopin sought also another production and Japanese of NHK proposed the Mysterious Cities of Gold. " Narrator " The artist of the two countries thus could put himself at work, French on the side of the ideas, Japanese with the scenario and the drawing. However, when one looks at the characters of the Mysterious Cities of Gold, the Japanese style is far from being obvious. Moreover, it is not a chance. " Deyriès " NHK intended to do something of prestige, therefore had taken a very good studio for that and the designers left with a will not to make like the other Japanese productions, to dissociate this commercial production of the time. " Narrator " It is true that when one looks at the graphics of a manga like Candy for example, one immediately notices his large eyes filled of light / END OF PART 1 / what is absolutely not the case of Zia for example of which the eyes are summarized with a feature, a pupil with a small light, and that applies to the whole of the characters of the series. But this graphic charter with European was not done in one day and the draughtsmen have to grope a long time before finding the final aspect of the characters, as you can see it on these first sketches of Esteban. And among all the characters whom Esteban, Tao and Zia meet, there is particularly attractive: the navigator Mendoza. " Deyriès " It is nevertheless a bad character at the beginning, very interested, which gradually, becoming acquainted with the children, learns how to like them, to appreciate them and after will devote itself even until saving them. It was a concept, me which worked at the beginning with the United States, which was absolutely not acceptable in the United States. In the United States, the cartoons for children are worlds Manicheans thus Mendoza could not exist. And us, that impassions us: it is a very rich character, I believe that it fascinated the witnesses much. There are people, young people whom I met, who said to me that Mendoza was their favorite character. " Narrator " To the characters, the mechanical apparatuses also form integral part of the Mysterious Cities of Gold, like the fabulous Solaris vessels. At the beginning, this ship was to have mechanisms out of wooden, middle-aged standards, but French subtly insisted to center the technology of the vessel on solar energy. " Deyriès " Solar energy, it is something which one knows today, therefore will be well for our witness of today to find references of today; the wink which makes that our hero of animated drawing does not understand what occurs by what saw him at the 15 th century, 16 th century, / END OF PART 2 / and us, to the 20 th, we understand, we know that the sun provides energy to advance the machines or steal the machines. " Narrator " Technology animating the wings of the sun it was also more related to the sun, under the impulse of French... Today, when one reconsiders in the Mysterious Cities of Gold, one remembers also impossible to circumvent the small documentary ones which concluded the episodes. They were carried out by the Japanese TV NHK which wanted, hold well, to make profitable its teams of reporters which it had with the four corners of the world. Famous and appreciated all over the world, the Mysterious Cities of Gold even were the subject of a film adaptation to Canada. Unfortunately, for the moment, the film remains in the drawers. Here nevertheless of the photographs of Esteban, Tao, Pizarro and Gaspard. The future of the Mysterious gold east Cities can be to see elsewhere: remember, at the end of the 39 episodes, Esteban and his friends discover finally one of legendary gold city. Knowing that it is a question that there is 6 different all over the world, one has the right to expect a continuation. " Deyriès " It was question 2 years ago, very strongly, and since anybody any more does not speak about it. The continuation occurred about a week after the end from the first series. The children took the great condor and thanks to him went to North America where there they discovered a trace of another Gold City, and crossing the Pacific, they were found in Japan, to discover a second gold city in Japan. " / END OF PART 3 / Narrator " Wanting to know some more about this continuation, which never was born, one succeeded in crossing the road of the famous Jean Chalopin at the time of Japan Expo. It accepted to say some to us a little bit more about one new character whom Esteban and its companions during their new tour would meet. " class="titre1">Chalopin " Me, I imagined a character, whom they meet, which is an English adventurer, who has an encyclopaedia: the famous book of Mû if you want. It has an encyclopaedia with him (at the time the encyclopaedia does not exist, we are at the 16 th century), and they find him as they are on California, captive of Indians and they will be burned and carried out. And him, he leaves in a village of some people, adventurers. He has flees England because it was going to be carried out like wizard: this book makes known to him and people treat it of wizard. He recover them and leaves with them, with the condor. But in the final analysis, it is a very ambiguous character and very mysterious and it is a dangerous character for them. " Narrator " Let us hope that one day, they will find gold necessary to continue the adventures of Esteban, Tao and Zia. Goodbye and with soon."

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