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 Temple of the Sun Tintin and the Temple of the Sun Tintin and the Temple of the Sun (original title Tintin et le temple du soleil) is a 1969 animated film produced by Belvision Studios. A co-production between Belgium, France and Switzerland, it is an adaptation of Hergé's two-part Tintin adventure "The Seven Crystal Balls" and "Prisoners of the Sun". Coming after the success of the Belvision cartoon series, "Hergé's Adventures of Tintin", there was a lot of publicity for the movie (which was the first of two animated films, the second being 1972's "Tintin and the Lake of Sharks"). Tintin travels to Peru