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Mafalda stopped being published in newspapers in 1973, but immediately
found new life in a series of animated shorts
that began to be broadcast that same year on Channel 11 (which two decades later would be Telefe).
These short films, produced by Daniel Mallo, showed Quino's characters talking and moving, and would be the origin of Mafalda's film.
Made in 1979 and released in thirty theaters on December 3, 1981
, the feature film was called
Mafalda, the movie
.
According to the slogan of the
Todo Comics
site
, it was again produced by Daniel Mallo, it was animated by Jorge Martín (Catú), with a script by Alberto Cabado, directed by Carlos Márquez and music by Riz Ortolani.
It featured the voices of Susana Klein (as Mafalda), Cecilia Gispert (Guille and Felipe), Nelly Hering (Mafalda's mother), Oscar Silva (Mafalda's father), Paqui Balaguer (Manolito), Susana Sisto (Susanita), María del Pilar Lebrón, Marta Olivan and Haydeé Lesker.
The dubbing coordinator was Adolfo Duncan, and the recording technicians, Nito Gonzáles and Mario Lavillotti.
"Mafalda, the movie".
It was released in December '81, which is why many consider it from 1982.
It showed the life of Mafalda, her family and her friends for a year, from the beginning of classes until Christmas.
But strictly speaking, it was a succession of television shorts made for television, so that the different stories had practically no connection to each other.
It lasted 82 minutes, and in 1982 it arrived in Spain, where it premiered under the name of
El mundo de Mafalda
.
It had more international travel: in 1985, those same cartoons were dubbed into French, and they were shown on television in French-speaking countries such as France, Belgium, Luxembourg or Canada.
The truth is that
Quino was never very satisfied with that first cinematographic adventure of his creature
.
"I was not convinced to see her come to life in that way, perhaps because I was used to imagining her voice and movements in a different way," he said in interviews.
"Mafalda, the movie" was a succession of animated shorts for television.
But the cartoonist would have revenge.
In 1992, an exhibition called El Mundo de Mafalda was held in Madrid, where an animated short made by the Cuban cartoonist Juan Padrón was presented, in which
Christopher Columbus met Mafalda when he arrived in America
.
This short film was a success and he befriended Quino with the idea of bringing his character's adventures to the screen.
This is how three years later, TVE (Spanish Television), the Autonomous TV of Catalonia and two other Spanish broadcasters came together to
produce no less than 104 new animated shorts of Mafalda
, lasting about one minute each.
This time Quino himself was involved in the making
, while Padrón was in charge of the direction, who had already made the Quinoscopes, shorts based on graphic jokes by the Mendoza author.
The scripts for these short films were taken directly from the comics, with a selection made by Quino.
An image of "Mafalda, the movie", with the unforgettable characters of the unforgettable Quino.
The creator of Mafalda was very aware of the distaste of the film, that is why in the shorts the characters did not have a voice, so that each viewer could continue to imagine the voice of the child gang and their parents.
The jokes were visual, accompanied by music by Cuban José María Vitter, and sound effects.
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