The Adventures of Tintin conjunction with Casterman, Tintin's publishers, and starts by describing Tintin as "a French boy". Snowy was called by his French name "Milou". The process of translating Tintin into British English was then commissioned in 1958 by Methuen, Hergé's British publishers. It was a joint operation, headed by Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper and Michael Turner, working closely with Hergé to attain an accurate translation as true as possible to the original work. Due in part to the large amount of language-specific word play (such as punning) in the series, especially the jokes which played on Professor Calculus' partial deafness, it was always the
Tintin and the Golden Fleece written text with stills from the film, some in colour, others in black and white. Today, the English translation is highly sought after by collectors. Tintin and the Golden Fleece Tintin and the Golden Fleece (in the original French, "Tintin et le Mystère de La Toison d'or", meaning "Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece") is a film first released in France on 6 December 1961. Featuring characters from "The Adventures of Tintin" comic book series written and drawn by the Belgian writer-artist Hergé, it was a live-action film with actors made-up to look like the characters and featured