Teletubbies mass media phenomenon

The Teletubbies are at the center of a transmission created by the BBC for children age produced between 1997 and 2001 by Ragdoll Productions. Created by Anne Wood creative director of Ragdoll and Andrew Davenport, who wrote all 365 episodes.

The transmission became a critical success and in the UK and abroad.

The protagonists are 4 teletubbie: Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa and Po, who live in TeletubbyLandia, in a futuristic located in a hilly, the weather is almost exclusively spring. The surroundings are dotted with flowers and the unique fauna consists of several rabbits in freedom, while suggesting the presence of birds which you hear the chirping. Often, during the course of the episodes, appear from the ground speaker shaped periscope from which leave sounds or voices. A constant presence of each episode is the sun, which appears at the beginning and end of the stake and which contains within it the face of a baby.

The teletubbies are impersonated by actors with costumes and large round shape. At the heart trebuha there is a rectangle of metal color used to show short movies of everyday life oriented to children under school age.

I have teletubbies proportions, behavior and language similar to those of a child under school age. The design and the pace of transmission were defined by a cognitive psychologist, Andrew Davenport, who structured bets adequately brief the ability to concentrate typical of children of that age.

The language of teletubbies is extremely simplified, slow and repetitive. Among the phrases applicants, and many Cuddles Hello Hello.

The diet consists exclusively of teletubbies of tubbiepappa (a kind of cream that comes sorbita through a straw) and tubbietoast (of circular toast with a smiling face). When tend to eat very dirty, but fortunately living with Noo-Noo (pronounced nu nu), an autonomous vacuum cleaner that cleans thoroughly.

Among the objects used by teletubbies, there are also tubbiespugne that are used by the four characters to ripulirsi after they were contaminated.

Starring

Tinky-Winky: male (?), Purple, triangular antenna. Subject preferred: a red handbag

Dipsy: male, green, straight antenna. Favorite Subject: hat cylinder spotted black and white. In the early episodes Dipsy was considerably darker face of the other Teletubbies

Laa-Laa: female, yellow antenna cornet. Favorite Subject: orange ball.

Po: female, red, circular antenna. Favorite Subject: scooter.

Of all the Teletubbies Po usually is the most benvoluta.

The narrator: voice-over narration that describes or anticipates actions of the protagonists

Noo noo: a mechanical vacuum cleaner that cleans the house of Teletubbies

Trivia

The set of teletubbies and the same teletubbies are much larger than it appears: Tinky Winky is about three metres high, Po, the smallest, about two and a half meters. Noo Noo (vacuum cleaner) contains a person that the pilot using a television screen. The house of the Teletubbies is about five metres high. The rabbits are flemish race and can weigh up to 15 kg.

Translation

In the Italian version of teletubbies the voice-over narration uses verbal times in a simplified Skupne and avoiding using the imperfect as a time of narration. Examples:

Tinky Winky thought that the lamb was sad.

One day teletubbilandia came to a butterfly.

Dialogue

According Ewa Sowinska, head of ' "national agency for the protection of children" in Poland, the carton could promote homosexuality to children, in fact these are the words of parliamentary dell'ultracattolica League of Polish families: "This is a species cardboard beautiful and harmless. however, I had not noticed that the main character Tinky Winky, always brings with it a red handbag despite being a male. "At first I thought that the bag could be a characteristic of this character, I realized that after could have a hidden message homosexual. Risk of sending the wrong message to children. "With these reasons the Sowinska wanted to entrust a team of psychologists childhood investigation on the four characters of the BBC television series, except publicly recant and then back on its decision

The Polish parlamentary was not the only one to tacciare homosexuality Tinky Winky, in fact in 1999 the Reverend Falwell, Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, famous for positions as extremist, has pointed out in an article that the character " purple, as the color of gay pride, and that its antenna is a triangle as a symbol of gay pride "(" he is purple - the gay pride color; and his antenna is shaped like a triangle - the gay-pride Symbol ").

Carryover following press release of BBC Television on 10 years of Teletubbies, Anglosasson popular program for children with puppets passed in Italy on RaiDue and RaiSat which reached record numbers even merchandising connected with teddy 50 million, 33 million DVD, 3 million books and more than 1 billion dollars in sales.

Even Hollywood has warmly welcomed these kind characters - from Britney Spears, on the cover of American magazine known Rolling Stone covers a sympathetic Teletubby, Angelina Jolie that when you shop not forget some of the Teletubbies to bring his children up to Johnny Depp , with the whole family expressed their great fans.

The Teletubbies are now real pop cultural icons, celebrities all over the world.