Iniminimagimo

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Iniminimagimo was a French language children's television show made in Quebec. It played in the late 1980s. Each episode featured a classic fairy tale played by the same cast. [1]

Script writers for the series included Linda Wilscam, Marie-Francine Hébert, Maryse Pelletier and Claude Roussin. [2] The show itself is made of 40 episodes:

  1. Aladdin & the Magic Lamp
  2. Alibaba & the Forty Thieves
  3. Little Baja the Gypsy
  4. Bluebeard
  5. Snow-white & the Seven Dwarfs
  6. Goldilocks & the Three Bears
  7. Bouki the little hyena
  8. Cinderella
  9. The Fisherman & the Golden Fish
  10. Hansel & Gretel
  11. There Was a Dog
  12. Jack & the Beanstalk
  13. Josée & the Green Mermaid
  14. Katia & the Devil
  15. The Spirit in the Bottle
  16. The Tale of Aoyagi
  17. The Sleeping Beauty
  18. Beauty & the Beast
  19. The Little Matchgirl
  20. The Table, the Ass and the Stick
  21. The Princess & the Pea
  22. The Frog Prince
  23. King Thrushbeard
  24. Puss-in-Boots
  25. The Devil with Three Golden Hairs
  26. The Selfish Giant
  27. The Pied Piper of Hamelin
  28. The Tortoise & the Hare
  29. Little-Red-Riding-Hood
  30. The Nightingale
  31. The Forty Dragons
  32. The Emperor's New Clothes
  33. The King's Rabbits
  34. The Three Little Pigs
  35. The Three Feathers
  36. Donkey-skin
  37. Little Sun & Little Goldenstar
  38. Pinocchio
  39. Riquet of the Tuft
  40. Vassilissa the Beautiful

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References

  1. Zipes, Jack; Greenhill, Pauline; Magnus-Johnston, Kendra (2017). Fairy-Tale Films Beyond Disney: International Perspectives. p. 249. ISBN   978-1134628131.
  2. "Iniminimagimo". Cinémathèque québécoise (in French).