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When the Norwegian circus performer and owner Arnardo I died backstage during a performance in Oslo in 1995, the circus was only interrupted by a rendition of “The Show Must Go On” before things continued as usual. In that spirit, I must declare that the fact that my computer is currently shitting itself on several fronts doesn’t mean we can’t blorp.
What’s the chef cookin’ tonight?
Once Upon a Time… The Discoverers is the fifth of Albert Barillé’s Once Upon a Time… cartoons, centered on the big-bearded Maestro. I have previously shown Once Upon a Time… Man from '78 (world history, albeit Eurocentric), Space from '82 (not actually educational; it’s sci-fi set in the future), Life from '87 (human physiology), and The Americas from '91 (history of Abya Yala, surprisingly good). This time, in The Discoverers, Maestro will be telling us about famous inventors and scientists from antiquity to the present day.
As before, the episodes have a runtime of ~24 minutes each; the number of episodes is 26; and we’ll be watching five episodes a week until the end when we watch the last six episodes and start half an hour earlier.
We’ll be watching the following episodes tonight:
- Ep 16: Gregor Mendel and Peas
- Ep 17: Louis Pasteur and Micro-Organisms
- Ep 18: Thomas Edison and Applied Science
- Ep 19: Guglielmo Marconi and Sound Waves
- Ep 20: Henry Ford and the Adventure of Motorcar
Content warnings and accessibility
Audio description: Not available.
Sign language: Not available.
Language of audio: Spanish (Pasteur) English (otherwise)
Captions: English hardsub, dialog only (Pasteur) Not available (otherwise)
Content warnings:
These are content warnings for Albert Barillé’s Once Upon a Time… in general:
- Death incl. murder
- Sexual assault
- Nudity
- Animal gore
- Racist caricatures
- Religion presented as fact
- Eurocentrism
- Children getting serious diseases
- Vanishing Indian myth
- Problematic depictions of cops, slavery, and settler-colonialism
- Problematic depictions of race and class issues in general
- Inaccuracies that drive some of our viewers up the wall
♫ Uniting nations at the speeeed of liiiiight ♫
[epic sax solo]
♫ Station of the '20s — TV☆3SIS! ♫