The Crab with the Golden Claws (film)

Infobox Film
name = The Crab with the Golden Claws

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director = Claude Misonne
producer = Wilfried Bouchery
writer = João B. Michiels
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music = G. Bethune, A. Ducat
cinematography = B. Michel, A. Dunil, E. Bernstein
editing = A. Leduc
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released = January 11, 1947 (Belgium)
runtime = 60 min
country = Belgium
language = French
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"The Crab with the Golden Claws" is a Belgian stop motion-animated feature film made in 1947, produced by Wilfried Bouchery for Films Claude Misonne and based on the comic book "The Crab with the Golden Claws", a part of "The Adventures of Tintin" series by Herge. This was the first Tintin story to be made into a movie and copies the story of the original comic almost exactly. There were originally only two threatrical screenings of the film; the first happened at the ABC Cinema on January 11 in 1947 for a group of special invited guests, while the other one was shown in public on December 21 of that year, before Bouchery declared bankruptcy and fled to Argentina. All of the equipment was seized and a copy of the film is currently stored at Belgium's Cinémathèque Royale. The copy is available to watch for paying members of the Tintin club.

References

* Battrick, Oliver. (March 21, 2004). [http://www.tintinologist.org/guides/screen/crab1947.html "The Crab With the Golden Claws (1947) - the first Tintin movie"] . "Tintinologist.org".

ee also

*List of animated feature-length films
*List of stop-motion films
*List of films based on French-language comics