I've really come to appreciate OG Angelina as I've gotten older because I like when main protagonists are allowed to be flawed characters expressing a variety of emotions as opposed to being the "child idol", Angelina in her original incarnation feels like a real person, she can be feisty, overbearing, and even selfish, but her heart is usually in the right place and all she wants to put on a good show. Plus, she's a queen, a literal queen, I stan this ballerina.
This is wild to watch because as an American, you don't get the cultural subtext around the Britishness or history implied in it (which is fine! Why would you, I would miss loads of US references!). So Ms Lily is heavily implied to be a refugee from newly-communist Russia after the Tsarist regime: many top prima ballerinas came here to teach ballet in the 1920s and 30s, and were forced to live in relative poverty and isolation. So she's not just someone who randomly 'really likes kids'. Angelina isn't 'really posh': she lives in a little rural cottage with her lower-middle class dad (local reporter) and mum, and attends what is clearly a rural state (not private) school. And a lot of what you could read as annoying or arrogant about her is really her anxiety around her class and ability to 'keep up' with what she considers 'elite' people in the industry she loves (the right clothes, the right food, the right activities). So yeah: it's a dumb little mouse show superficially to Americans. But it has some deeper themes for us about belonging and what really matters!x
Oh interesting! The show has multiple mentions of charity for “poor Dacovian orphans” that felt like it was alluding to Russian history. And I thought Angelina’s accent sounded posh compared to Alice and Sammy Watts and Mrs Hodgepodge. But I am very American and wasn’t thinking about class aspect (except for the pinkpaw twins being obviously rich). Fascinating, thank you, I love og Angelina it’s so well done and detailed
@@sarah_serif the reason angelina sounds “posh” is because she has a generic southern english accent which many typically associate with poshness. this is due to the north-south class divide that england had during the industrial era (poorer in the north & richer in the south). nowadays we have all kinds of people everywhere so even if you’re poor you may have a “posh” accent because of the area you grew up in. the other angelina ballerina characters, although they all live in the same area, have accents from all over england. mrs hodgepodge has a west country accent (western england), sammy watts has a cockney accent (east london), and alice has a generic northern accent. i think the idea for this was more about having representation for different accents in england rather than any class connotations. of course if you’re not english it’s harder to pick up on that and not associate certain accents with poshness/class which is understandable!
You’re so arrogant to think no American got that. American and I knew about all of this not all of us are uneducated about other countries histories. This woman not knowing that stuff is her problem but don’t stereotype us as if we’re all too stupid and uneducated to know about the Russian history with ballet and yes we get Angelina isn’t posh by how she lives. Maybe OP didn’t but that’s her problem don’t stereotype us all I’m sick of being talked down to like this because I’m American. “To you Americans it may just be a silly little mouse show” like f**** off
THE MEMORIES!!! i've been randomly thinking of this show off and on for the past few years because i kept being confused that i just so happened to watch TWO ballerina mice shows as a kid; turns out one of them was just the 3d show lmao
I think this show is responsible for why I love bows and “coquette” aesthetics so much. Also, the episode where Angelina gets her paw kissed by the celebrity man dancer and she says she will never wash it again lives rent free in my head TO THIS DAY.
In preschool, I dressed up for Halloween as “Angelina Ballerina, Fairy Princess on Stage” and had a mouse tail and ears, a ballerina outfit, a princess tiara, and a magic wand.
We only had one kids channel when I was young and I can 100% confirm that my parents *despised* this show. They were so annoyed that the main character was crying in almost every episode, "Angelina Bawlerina" is still a family meme to this day.
As a little boy, one of my favorite stuffed animals was an Angelina doll! I'm so unbelievably lucky that my parents and especially grandmother encouraged my love of the books and the original cartoon. I think I still have her somewhere, actually. The dress was removable, so I'd dress her up in other large doll clothes and just do that for hours.
Alice and Henry eating candy unlocked a deep seeded memory that I didn't know existed. I can remember like really wanting to eat the candy or being hyper focused on the candy as a child
i distinctly remember being in a commercial for the angelina reboot with my old dance studio when i was in kindergarten and it was such a core memory for me. 😭 i still have the mouse ear headband and the little tutu i wore. i remember turning on the tv to watch Angelina Ballerina and that ad would almost always be right before the episode 😭 edit: i gotta get through more than half the video before commenting... i'm literally in this video omfg
Wow ! I rarely view Angelina Ballerina when I was a kid but despite that is serene and unique :) 와! 나는 어렸을 때 안젤리나 발레리나를 거의 보지 못했지만, 그럼에도 불구하고 조용하고 독특해 :)
1:05:30 fun fact about this actually- this is pretty much only a thing with childrens media! its so that they dont pick up the "wrong" accent, which does happen since thats when accents are still being solidified (ex- some american kids adopt a british accent if they watch a lot of peppa pig)
My sister and i (australian) would put on american accents to play pretend since so many of our shows and movies were American and our mum would hate it and tell us off. I don't think dubbing things to the Australian accent was ever a thing 😂
Half of the media I consumed as a kid was british so I have a very odd accent. Sometimes I'll rewatch something and not notice that they were british this whole time.
@@georgecooper9766 Same here. I think to a lot of Australian kids, American becomes the "fiction" accent. Actually resulted in a really weird feeling the first time I visited the US.
I love that the original books/ tv show feel respectful to their audience. they're a product of love and effort and don't try to dumb themselves down to be palatable
All I've ever known from this franchise was the 2009 cartoon, and I KNEW I was missing out on context but it was always so confusing because they never *really* explained what the deal was, the feeling you described with Legally Blondes is exactly how I felt with this show
When I was a kid, because I was named Angelina, I for some reason thought I also HAD to become a ballerina. I thought I had to be exactly like her, and I saw how annoying she could be and felt personally offended and thought it was not an accurate portrayal of Angelina (me, I thought me and this mouse were one and the same, as if those with the people name have the same life/personality. I had yet to meet anyone with my name) anyways, I signed up for dance class and unfortunately I was not gifted and clearly NOT destined to be a famous dancer, and did not fulfill the ballerina prophecy … anyways, since then my life has been pointless. who is Angelina if not ballerina?
don't let a cartoon mouse in a tutu dictate your life. you carve your own destiny and you forge your path in life. there are so many other girls named Angelina and they too probably dream of becoming ballerinas because of this show. be original.
My parents let my siblings do basketball, martial arts, and ballet, but I wasn't allowed to do them. I wasn't even allowed to stay after school for club activities, so I'd sit and watch Angelina Ballernia for hours and hours. I love this little mouse show.
I had this Angelina ballerina magazine subscription when I was a kid. I remember the first two weeks you got an Angelina and an Alice (i always preferred Alice because of her colour combo), and then every week there would be a different fairytale story, and you got a costume, and i used to make them dance the ballet of the story. One of the best toys I had as a kid because i wanted to be a “prima ballerina” 😅 I also had the foldout stage with the figurines so that was so nostalgic to see in this video ❤ love what you do xx
I did not take ballet BECAUSE of Angelina, but I did train in dance for 18 years and Angelina was a great comfort and support to me during my early years. The old style drawing is still so close and dear to my heart, making me feel safe. Thank you for this great deep dive, i enjoyed listening to it!
I grew up with the 3D show and all I can remember other than Angelina being a villain was that as a kid I'd try to immitate the way Angelina ran (toe to heel) and it HURT so bad since I ended up just putting all my weight on my toes.
Angelina Ballerina and Olivia are my two favorite childhood Ballerina shows! Such a random genre but i can truly appreciate the shows looking back on them
As someone who owned a wiggles DVD and has only ever seen Angelina Ballerina in the context of the friends forever trailer, I clicked on this video immediately and was SO EXCITED when you actually brought up the trailers 😁
My two year old loves Angelina Ballerina! I just happened to find a DVD set at my local grocery store for $5, bought it for her and she wants to watch it all the time. It's a very cozy, calm show.
i’m from the uk and i watched the original angelina ballerina stage performance by the english national ballet! it was the first production i’d ever seen as a child so it was very memorable. i had quite a few of the books, including the stage pop-up book you showed (i wish i still had it!), and watched both of the tv series. i was super into angelina ballerina because i started ballet at age 3, which was about the time when the first tv series aired, and am still doing it as a hobby to this day at age 22. i really appreciated this video!
1:05:19 One thing that she didn't mention is that in the original show, Polly was a brown mouse like her mother, but in the 2009 show, she is a grey mouse.
I loved this show as a kid! I was five years old when I first watched Angelina Ballerina. Because of the show I went through a ballerina phase; and I even begged my parents for ballet lessons. Sadly, my family couldn't afford ballet lessons. A few years ago I got my little cousin a copy of the first Angelina Ballerina book along with an Angelina plushy for Christmas one year. My little cousin loved the book and the doll.
When I was little, and attending ballet classes, I had this light-up Angelina Ballerina conjoined top and tutu set which would play the theme to the original show and had Angelina’s face (in the old art style) on it. I used to go into my classes and show everyone what it could do, proudly displaying my love for the show and it’s main character. This video has brought back so many fond memories, thank you!
this is the SINGLE video essay/deep dive ive wanted since it became a thing people on youtube started doing. thank you so so so so SOOOO much for doing this 💜💜💜💜💜💜
as someone who made a book with pop up elements for a thesis project, that book is insane!!! The artists who worked on it are incredibly talented and im glad its getting appreciation, goddamn
So excited for this deep dive! The fond memories I have of going to the public library and checking out Angelina Ballerina books and DVDs - so much nostalgia! 💛
This show had a larger impact on my childhood than I remembered! I watched a lot of the DVDs and VHS tapes from my public library when I was little, had plush dolls of Angelina and Alice, as well as a toy set with plastic figures of all of the mice. This franchise, as well as animated movies like The Rescuers, Rankin/Bass’ ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas, The Secret of NIHM, The Great Mouse Detective, and Ernest and Celestine have made me fall in love with media that feature tiny mice living in their own little tiny, human-like worlds. The episode I have the most memories about is the one where Angelina finds a lucky penny and drops it while watching a performance, as well as the one where Angelina tries to get the tickets for the ballet and keeps failing until her father gives her the press tickets.
The Maggie Bateson pop up books!!! This just lit up major childhood memories. Pop up dollhouses used to be my and my sister's favorite thing, specially for me because sensorily I always liked the touch of cardboard better than the repurposed wood of our actual dollhouse. But I'll say its probably not a good idea to give children something that's as fragile as paper to play dolls with, all my pop ups are all taped up and folded over as well. (Also they were such a statement on children's literature in the 2000s i think you could do a video on them)
I really admired when I read the first threw or four of these to my kid that Angelina's house is very consistent. The floor plan is easy to see from book to book.
Love Angelina Ballerina! I grew up watching the 3D version of Angelina and I love it when they introduce real dancers in shining stars at the end of the show.
I am proud to say that Angelina Ballerina is one of the reasons I wanted to start ballet and still do it to this day as a career! Ty for making this deep dive! 💖💖
OH MY GOD. YES, PLEASE. I was in high school when this started showing on PBS but it was so pretty and charming, I fell in love. I despise the reboot. The music and watercolor backgrounds are untouchable.
I thought I hadn't watched the original Angelina Ballerina TV show but some of those clips definitely awakened some memories in me. I loved the book and had a playset as a kid since I did ballet classes and my mom is a former ballerina
Love your video! Had all the books as a kid and my first magazine subscription was to the Angelina Ballerina Fairytales Magazine! Anyone else remember them? They came with soft toys characters and each edition came with clothes for the toys.
i was 3 or 4, just a little kid from the Philippines watching the Next Steps whenever i caught it on TV. looking back, i believe the show indeed influenced my passion for dance, and i did try out ballet lessons for one summer a few years later heheh. i'm 18 now and my passion for dance kind of died a few years ago, but this show will always have a special place in my heart. i still come back to it sometimes...
I LOVED Angelina Ballerina as a kid. My favourite thing I owned was a book full of letters and it told a story through the different letters and they came out of the envelopes so you could actually read them. I'm sure I still have it at my parents' house. You've really made me want to rewatch the original series again!
Before I forget, there is one thing you didn’t mention in the “other media” section of the original Angelina. There was a series of magazines from Angelina ballerina and each issue came with a dress for the doll. I still have all of my magazines, all of the dresses that came with them and my Angelina and Alice dolls as well as the book about her birthday (I can send pictures if you want). I also used to have 2 vhs tapes 1 was the show must go on (with that irl dance instruction segment you mentioned) the other was about a play they were going to do where Angelina would have to hang from a single wire to play a fairy but she was scared of heights, that vhs also contained the boat race and Henry and Angelina on the fair episodes)
Omg the memories this unlocked... 💚😭💚 I must have been SO young because even with this, I don't remember the specifics. I recognise the characters, but not the show, I recognise the pop-up book, but not the colours and details. I cannot believe this has just been locked in my brain since I was a toddler.
These books and the Disney game toontown is how I got my internet atlas/nickname. How I adore Angelina. Congrats on the bachelors! Currently watching while doing my first year of college.
51:16, Wow it's funny that I have a My Fairy Princess Palace just sitting at my house. I grew up with the version of Angelina where she was 3D called Angelina Ballerina The Next Steps where you did mention it in the video. Watching it again made me realize that the show was a little dull but still sort of had the charm of the "classic". But I got to give them credit, the theme song is so catchy and I love the part with the na-na-na's, fun fact it reminded me of this show and found your channel.
I still have one of my Angelina Ballerina books from when I was little. She shaped my childhood and honestly still impacts me now as an adult. I still love ballet, classical music, British programming, and antique furniture. It’s cool to see how things from your childhood affect your adulthood. Thanks for the wonderful video 💜
I actually have the pop-up dancing school book!! This video was such a blast from the past, and brought back a lot of memories. Like you said, it was a little hard to play with like a doll house, but I remember I would open it up and stare at all the little details from time to time. My favorite room was the dressing room and rehearsal space, there were so many tiny and gorgeous details!
SO nostalgic omg 🥹 me and my siblings had the cottage playset, some pieces for the stage playset, and most of the plush dolls. I think I still have Angelina, Alice, and Polly. I also had a book of Angelina Christmas recipes and crafts. I distinctly remember being unhappy with the 2009 reboot. My sister was pissed because Angelina didn’t dance en pointe.
As an Aussie, the wave of nostalgia when you pulled up the Australian movie - that pink case with the handle !!! I'd forgotten dvds looked like that for a bit Also I love your videos so much! they are so well researched and engaging, thanks for all the hard work !!!
AAA! I am so glad people are talking about the original show as it was the one i grew up with! I always loved the characters and art style. So, when my cousin showed me the 3d one i was so confused lol.
The memory you brought back of the princess special omg!!! I remember going on a deep dive trying to find it and I couldn't!! I loved Angelina Ballerina!
There’s something so comforting about this show + books. I remember watching it as a little girl and I loved everything about it. Now I found the original shows on TH-cam and show my daughter 🥹
This was my childhood. I loved everything about the show and even got some of the books, either for my birthday or for Christmas, I love that you made a whole deep dive about the characters that I have grown up with.
The only exposure I ever had to Angelina Ballerina was The Next Steps on PBS kids when I was little. I don't remember caring for it very much (I really only watched it bc I liked the shows that were on before & after) but it was alright. I was never really into dance as a kid, so those parts really went over my head, but the storylines outside of that were decent
Angelina Ballerina was such a comfort for me as a child, and I'm revisiting it as an adult :) I love my comfort things so much, I always worry learning more about them might ruin them for me.. So your video was really well done and handled something special to me with a lot of care. Thank you for that
yours are rarely a background video for me !! they are like my comfort videos and make me feel happy and chill 😊 please make another american girl doll video !🩷🩷
i audibly GASPED when i saw this video u dont know how much this means to me. angelina ballerina was my SHIT when i was a kid n i still fall asleep to it to this day bc of the asmr voice acting n the classical music n i've been watching SO many video essays recently so u hit ur target audience. i havent even watched it yet but thank you. thank you for ur service.
ohhhh MAN! i always said my first memory of being definitively gender diverse was when i was a kid was when i told my mom i wanted to be a ballerina astronaut pirate and have a moustache, tutu, eyepatch, and astronaut helmet. i realize now that angelina ballerina was indoctrinating me into the transgender agenda and sending me subliminal messages to take testosterone and be a fuzzy little mouse queen like her. thanks angelina. happy pride
Different author but this brings back memories to the book Chrysanthemum which is really close to my heart as somebody with a last name that nobody can be pronounced and having to constantly deal with people just refusing to try no matter how I correct them
I was crazy about Angelina Ballerina as a little girl in the 90's!! My sisters and I all loved to dance, so it was easy to fall in love with a mouse that loved to dance. I received several of the books as presents and the gorgeous box that housed an Angelina doll, her friend Alice, little Henry and a lot of their costumes! I refused to let my mother get rid of them when I was in high school and later going off to college. I still have that box of toys and many of the books from my childhood. Thank you for this lovely trip into the making my favorite childhood books!
Angelina Ballerina's Sleepover Party was the only Angelina Ballerina thing I'd ever come across before this video. I had it when I was little and it was so fun!! There definitely were more pieces but I don't remember exactly what. Thanks for the video, this brought back really fond memories and it was so interesting to learn more about the production and other products :D
I had the big pop up book and i was OBSESSED with it. I played with it constantly with a bunch of of my toys as the figures. Its absolutely gorgeous and its full of detail in every little corner. We dont seem to have it anywhere and im devistated we might jave given it away
omgggg i love angelina ballerina so much! i rediscovered it on hulu a few years ago and i was so happy. i took ballet for about 5 or 6 years, and i initially started it because of angelina and barbie in the 12 dancing princesses. the music and the art style is so beautiful and nostalgic, thank you for this video!! i loved it
Sarah, you remind me of a nice and funny English teacher that i look forward to having the class to. Im always so happy when u post, it feels like christmas!
Thanks for this video, I remember Angelina from her AG days. Also bc I love to play "spot who I've also got" with doll collections in the background: Abbey, Venus, Zooey, Vanessa, Lila, Josefina, Felicity 💕
something that has always stuck with me about the angelina books is the SMELL! as a little girl, part of the joy of reading them was when I would open the pages and just sniff the pages
I would probably not have known about Angelina Ballerina had it not been for a certain DVD we had which featured two episodes of like 3 or 4 other shows. There was one episode were Angelina is worried that the picture frame she made herself won’t be a good enough Christmas present for Miss Lily, so she tries to earn enough money to buy her a fancy hat instead but by the time she has enough money, someone else already bought the house, so Angelina feels really ashamed at the Christmas party but then Miss Lily opens her gift and is absolutely thrilled at the picture frame. There was also one episode were Angelina is chosen to dance at the castle and most of the episode is her and Miss Lily struggling to get there. They made such a big deal about it, I didn’t realize that there were so many episodes were the royal family came to see them dance.
I grew up on the books and next steps and loved the show, I was a very bossy kid like Angelina and when watching the show would act out everything she did and made my little sister play every other character. I vividly remember having the book Angelina and the royal wedding and an Angelina ballerina annual. I also remember meeting Angelina outside Tesco with my grandma
This show was so enchanting as a lil girl, i absolutely love the art style and those pics of the books made me remember reading them! Thank you for that! It’s a crime that kids nowadays r growing up with these simple and annoyingly dumb cartoons because the original is so calming to look at and u can tell it was made with care. Thank you for this video it really brought me back!
Wow! Thanks for all the hard work put into making this video! As a kid growing up in the naughties I remember watching both versions of the tv show on tv (although I watched the Dutch dub and I was surprised to hear them have a British accent in this video lol). I forgot about a lot of the characters, but this video brought back so many memories!
I’m so happy someone is talking about this show😭😭 I grew up watching it and having a little book but no one I know knows about it and it felt like I was just imagining it
omg, I loved Angelina Ballerina growing up. Angelina's star performance was the first live show I saw and I still have the DVD today. Thank you for making this, such a great watch.
Just seeing these images gives me so much nostlagia. Hearing you talk about the episodes bring up so many memories I didn't know I had, *especially* that beat episode.
Angelina at the Fair (the book version especially) was one of my go to's as a kid. Funnily enough, I think I relate to Henry the most in the sense that I'm not really the type to go on rides. I recently rewatched some of the episodes to relive my childhood and I actually really enjoyed it! For some reason I'm now kind of drawing similarities between the OG show and the animated series of Anne of Green Gables. Great video!
My mom got me so many of these movies and books when I was a little girl and took ballet for like 4 years. It’s a stark memory and a pretty good one, honestly.
I only ever watched Angelina Ballerina in french due to living in Quebec, it was always just on tv in french so I never quite understood what was going on but I have such a vivid memory of the bag/market storyline that it's burned into my brain years later.
Didn't expect this video on angelina ballerina to inform me that I'm not the only person who watched all of NBC's hannibal in 3 days. 10/10 video, loved the tangents on distribution companies.
Multiple dubs for different dialects in the same language happens more often then you might think. I live in the Dutch speaking part of Belgium and before 2015 we used to have our own dubs for various international cartoons while the Dutch had their own dubs (since 2015 they are trying cast people from both countries to make 1 dub but it doesn’t always sound right), this also happens to French a lot (European French dub vs Canadian French dub vs African French dub), Portugese (European Portuguese vs Brazilian Portugese), Spanish (European Spanish vs Latin American Spanish), Russian (mainland Russian vs Ukrainian Russian vs broader former Yugoslavian Russian), German (mainland german vs Austrian German vs Swiss German) and yes even English. Winx club is the most notorious example but in that case it wasn’t dialect related but distribution rights related so in English you had the 4kids dub, the Nickelodeon dub, the Cinelume or RAI English dub (Singapore English) and then there was an Australian dub as well I think? This has even happened to documentaries, walking with dinosaurs and walking with beasts for example had the original British dub narrated by Keneth Branagh but for the USA (and I assume Canada as well) they had a different narrator and after that yet an other version was made with a different narrator. These kinds of dubs happen because often one dialect has words that people who speak the other dialect cant understand or don’t have in their dialect or because a word that is innocent in one dialect can be a profanity or slang term in the other (for example in Dutch the word “poepen” means “to poop” but in Flemish it’s slang for “having s3x”, there is also a word in one dialect of Portuguese that is completely generic but in the other dialect it’s slang for gay men. For an other example in European Portuguese the word “tarado” means “crazy man” but in Brazilian Portuguese it means “a man who views women as s3x objects and can’t keep his hands to himself”)
While both original books are true staples in my childhood, Angelina and The Princess was truly one of my FAVORITE books ever as a child. The girly/princess/ballet aesthetic was everything Baby Me loved. Those illustrations you showed are so ingrained in my brain and memories. It was so amazing to see them again
I grew up with the original Angelina in the early 2000s, this video brought back so many memories! As someone who is currently finishing a BFA myself (late, I started college in my mid-twenties lol), I never appreciated how beautiful the illustrations and OG animation were. I I had at least one doll as well, they were equally well crafted and I loved the creator talking about her knickers, I remember them being such a struggle for me to take on and off lol. I was always a tomboy and never aspired to be a ballerina, but I really loved the show. It was just so cozy and warm and peaceful, like Anne of Green Gables. I think I caught the PBS version later on when my younger siblings were watching it but I just wasn't interested. 3D animation can be gorgeous, but with kids shows they tend to use the medium more for ease than artistic value. I hope the series gets a proper reboot one day. This video reminded me that I have to get the books for my nieces, they'd love them.
I've really come to appreciate OG Angelina as I've gotten older because I like when main protagonists are allowed to be flawed characters expressing a variety of emotions as opposed to being the "child idol", Angelina in her original incarnation feels like a real person, she can be feisty, overbearing, and even selfish, but her heart is usually in the right place and all she wants to put on a good show.
Plus, she's a queen, a literal queen, I stan this ballerina.
This is wild to watch because as an American, you don't get the cultural subtext around the Britishness or history implied in it (which is fine! Why would you, I would miss loads of US references!). So Ms Lily is heavily implied to be a refugee from newly-communist Russia after the Tsarist regime: many top prima ballerinas came here to teach ballet in the 1920s and 30s, and were forced to live in relative poverty and isolation. So she's not just someone who randomly 'really likes kids'. Angelina isn't 'really posh': she lives in a little rural cottage with her lower-middle class dad (local reporter) and mum, and attends what is clearly a rural state (not private) school. And a lot of what you could read as annoying or arrogant about her is really her anxiety around her class and ability to 'keep up' with what she considers 'elite' people in the industry she loves (the right clothes, the right food, the right activities). So yeah: it's a dumb little mouse show superficially to Americans. But it has some deeper themes for us about belonging and what really matters!x
Oh interesting! The show has multiple mentions of charity for “poor Dacovian orphans” that felt like it was alluding to Russian history. And I thought Angelina’s accent sounded posh compared to Alice and Sammy Watts and Mrs Hodgepodge. But I am very American and wasn’t thinking about class aspect (except for the pinkpaw twins being obviously rich). Fascinating, thank you, I love og Angelina it’s so well done and detailed
@@sarah_serif the reason angelina sounds “posh” is because she has a generic southern english accent which many typically associate with poshness. this is due to the north-south class divide that england had during the industrial era (poorer in the north & richer in the south). nowadays we have all kinds of people everywhere so even if you’re poor you may have a “posh” accent because of the area you grew up in.
the other angelina ballerina characters, although they all live in the same area, have accents from all over england. mrs hodgepodge has a west country accent (western england), sammy watts has a cockney accent (east london), and alice has a generic northern accent. i think the idea for this was more about having representation for different accents in england rather than any class connotations. of course if you’re not english it’s harder to pick up on that and not associate certain accents with poshness/class which is understandable!
You’re so arrogant to think no American got that. American and I knew about all of this not all of us are uneducated about other countries histories. This woman not knowing that stuff is her problem but don’t stereotype us as if we’re all too stupid and uneducated to know about the Russian history with ballet and yes we get Angelina isn’t posh by how she lives. Maybe OP didn’t but that’s her problem don’t stereotype us all I’m sick of being talked down to like this because I’m American. “To you Americans it may just be a silly little mouse show” like f**** off
A dumb little mouse show for Americans? What an ignorant generalization.
@@alexisfreeze yeah I’m not going to get into a fight with you about Angelina Ballerina.
THE MEMORIES!!! i've been randomly thinking of this show off and on for the past few years because i kept being confused that i just so happened to watch TWO ballerina mice shows as a kid; turns out one of them was just the 3d show lmao
Same I love it
Saaaamme😊
Same! I wasn’t able to pursue ballet due to how expensive it was but it’s so dear to me
Me too!! I loved Angelina Ballerina as a kid 🥹
Same!! I’ve been thinking about it every few days for the past month and this video just appeared on my recommended!
I think this show is responsible for why I love bows and “coquette” aesthetics so much.
Also, the episode where Angelina gets her paw kissed by the celebrity man dancer and she says she will never wash it again lives rent free in my head TO THIS DAY.
Me too! Literally had someone kiss my hand one time and that scene came straight into my head 😂
I forgot all about that episode with the hand kiss !! What a wonderful flashback
yikes
I will never wash this paw ✨agayn✨
@@faeriesorceress what isn't Angelina a kid who cares
In preschool, I dressed up for Halloween as “Angelina Ballerina, Fairy Princess on Stage” and had a mouse tail and ears, a ballerina outfit, a princess tiara, and a magic wand.
That's sooo cuteeee❤
Honestly ✨iconic✨
I grew up with the original show, and it’s probably the reason as to why I simply ADORE the vintage storybook art style!
Right? It’s such a beautifully animated show
I still have the Christmas special on VHS ❤
We only had one kids channel when I was young and I can 100% confirm that my parents *despised* this show. They were so annoyed that the main character was crying in almost every episode, "Angelina Bawlerina" is still a family meme to this day.
Not gonna lie, she was a big pushover lol
I was waiting for her to stand up to the Pinkpaws twins.
I mean kids cry.
As a little boy, one of my favorite stuffed animals was an Angelina doll! I'm so unbelievably lucky that my parents and especially grandmother encouraged my love of the books and the original cartoon. I think I still have her somewhere, actually. The dress was removable, so I'd dress her up in other large doll clothes and just do that for hours.
That's so cute
Awe that's so cute
god i wish that were me
How sweet!
All power to you. Why does nobody notice that series like these have no boy characters?
Alice and Henry eating candy unlocked a deep seeded memory that I didn't know existed. I can remember like really wanting to eat the candy or being hyper focused on the candy as a child
i distinctly remember being in a commercial for the angelina reboot with my old dance studio when i was in kindergarten and it was such a core memory for me. 😭 i still have the mouse ear headband and the little tutu i wore. i remember turning on the tv to watch Angelina Ballerina and that ad would almost always be right before the episode 😭
edit: i gotta get through more than half the video before commenting... i'm literally in this video omfg
wow that’s so cool!!
THATS SO COOL WTF awww 🥹
Wow ! I rarely view Angelina Ballerina when I was a kid but despite that is serene and unique :)
와! 나는 어렸을 때 안젤리나 발레리나를 거의 보지 못했지만, 그럼에도 불구하고 조용하고 독특해 :)
Can I have your autograph?
can i also have your autograph?
the illustrators respect for children is so nice to see, it's rare for someone to really care about every detail of their art this way
1:05:30 fun fact about this actually- this is pretty much only a thing with childrens media! its so that they dont pick up the "wrong" accent, which does happen since thats when accents are still being solidified (ex- some american kids adopt a british accent if they watch a lot of peppa pig)
My sister and i (australian) would put on american accents to play pretend since so many of our shows and movies were American and our mum would hate it and tell us off. I don't think dubbing things to the Australian accent was ever a thing 😂
Half of the media I consumed as a kid was british so I have a very odd accent. Sometimes I'll rewatch something and not notice that they were british this whole time.
I don’t see it as being worth the cost of paying for extra dubbing geez
@@georgecooper9766 Same here. I think to a lot of Australian kids, American becomes the "fiction" accent. Actually resulted in a really weird feeling the first time I visited the US.
I love that the original books/ tv show feel respectful to their audience. they're a product of love and effort and don't try to dumb themselves down to be palatable
All I've ever known from this franchise was the 2009 cartoon, and I KNEW I was missing out on context but it was always so confusing because they never *really* explained what the deal was, the feeling you described with Legally Blondes is exactly how I felt with this show
I used to watch the 2009 cartoon since I was a kid
Yes!! I even had the ballet game
When I was a kid, because I was named Angelina, I for some reason thought I also HAD to become a ballerina. I thought I had to be exactly like her, and I saw how annoying she could be and felt personally offended and thought it was not an accurate portrayal of Angelina (me, I thought me and this mouse were one and the same, as if those with the people name have the same life/personality. I had yet to meet anyone with my name) anyways, I signed up for dance class and unfortunately I was not gifted and clearly NOT destined to be a famous dancer, and did not fulfill the ballerina prophecy … anyways, since then my life has been pointless. who is Angelina if not ballerina?
don't let a cartoon mouse in a tutu dictate your life. you carve your own destiny and you forge your path in life. there are so many other girls named Angelina and they too probably dream of becoming ballerinas because of this show.
be original.
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Yo I'm weak💀
"Who is Angelina if not ballerina" has me dying 😂
I wasn't a Ballerina but I liked to dance and spin like Angelina Mouseling when I was little!
My parents let my siblings do basketball, martial arts, and ballet, but I wasn't allowed to do them. I wasn't even allowed to stay after school for club activities, so I'd sit and watch Angelina Ballernia for hours and hours. I love this little mouse show.
Why wouldn’t they let you do anything? That’s bad parenting if you ask me!
I had this Angelina ballerina magazine subscription when I was a kid. I remember the first two weeks you got an Angelina and an Alice (i always preferred Alice because of her colour combo), and then every week there would be a different fairytale story, and you got a costume, and i used to make them dance the ballet of the story. One of the best toys I had as a kid because i wanted to be a “prima ballerina” 😅
I also had the foldout stage with the figurines so that was so nostalgic to see in this video ❤ love what you do xx
I got that magazine too!
Yess!! I loved the magazine!
Yep, I even still have some of the outfits.
I did not take ballet BECAUSE of Angelina, but I did train in dance for 18 years and Angelina was a great comfort and support to me during my early years. The old style drawing is still so close and dear to my heart, making me feel safe. Thank you for this great deep dive, i enjoyed listening to it!
I grew up with the 3D show and all I can remember other than Angelina being a villain was that as a kid I'd try to immitate the way Angelina ran (toe to heel) and it HURT so bad since I ended up just putting all my weight on my toes.
Same
I also grew up with the 3D series and as a kid becouse of that the orignal series was*t my thing(the 2D series)
I did that too as a child, but because of the way kangaroos move. Turns out I'm a neurodivergent mfer so it may have just been that.
Me who walk all day around the house on tipi toes so they are now very strong 😈
@@rainpooper7088 same!
Angelina Ballerina and Olivia are my two favorite childhood Ballerina shows! Such a random genre but i can truly appreciate the shows looking back on them
Omg I forgot about Olivia. I loved the theme song (I think the only lyrics were her name over and over but I liked the tune hahaha)
Olivia's creator passed away relatively recently
As someone who owned a wiggles DVD and has only ever seen Angelina Ballerina in the context of the friends forever trailer, I clicked on this video immediately and was SO EXCITED when you actually brought up the trailers 😁
My two year old loves Angelina Ballerina! I just happened to find a DVD set at my local grocery store for $5, bought it for her and she wants to watch it all the time. It's a very cozy, calm show.
i’m from the uk and i watched the original angelina ballerina stage performance by the english national ballet! it was the first production i’d ever seen as a child so it was very memorable. i had quite a few of the books, including the stage pop-up book you showed (i wish i still had it!), and watched both of the tv series. i was super into angelina ballerina because i started ballet at age 3, which was about the time when the first tv series aired, and am still doing it as a hobby to this day at age 22. i really appreciated this video!
I remember I also saw the Angelina ballerina performance at the Sydney opera house when I was 4 or 5 it was amazing!
1:05:19 One thing that she didn't mention is that in the original show, Polly was a brown mouse like her mother, but in the 2009 show, she is a grey mouse.
Heck yeah, new comfort video for sleeping and drawing just dropped ❤😂
Also, Helen’s reasons for drawing mice are so cute 🥹
I loved this show as a kid! I was five years old when I first watched Angelina Ballerina. Because of the show I went through a ballerina phase; and I even begged my parents for ballet lessons. Sadly, my family couldn't afford ballet lessons.
A few years ago I got my little cousin a copy of the first Angelina Ballerina book along with an Angelina plushy for Christmas one year. My little cousin loved the book and the doll.
When I was little, and attending ballet classes, I had this light-up Angelina Ballerina conjoined top and tutu set which would play the theme to the original show and had Angelina’s face (in the old art style) on it. I used to go into my classes and show everyone what it could do, proudly displaying my love for the show and it’s main character. This video has brought back so many fond memories, thank you!
this is the SINGLE video essay/deep dive ive wanted since it became a thing people on youtube started doing. thank you so so so so SOOOO much for doing this 💜💜💜💜💜💜
"i hope your chores or art or video game are going well" you know us so well lmao
this is literally why i subscribed btw so thanks!!
as someone who made a book with pop up elements for a thesis project, that book is insane!!! The artists who worked on it are incredibly talented and im glad its getting appreciation, goddamn
So excited for this deep dive! The fond memories I have of going to the public library and checking out Angelina Ballerina books and DVDs - so much nostalgia! 💛
This show had a larger impact on my childhood than I remembered! I watched a lot of the DVDs and VHS tapes from my public library when I was little, had plush dolls of Angelina and Alice, as well as a toy set with plastic figures of all of the mice. This franchise, as well as animated movies like The Rescuers, Rankin/Bass’ ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas, The Secret of NIHM, The Great Mouse Detective, and Ernest and Celestine have made me fall in love with media that feature tiny mice living in their own little tiny, human-like worlds.
The episode I have the most memories about is the one where Angelina finds a lucky penny and drops it while watching a performance, as well as the one where Angelina tries to get the tickets for the ballet and keeps failing until her father gives her the press tickets.
ily sm you make working on all my ridiculous projects so much fun
The Maggie Bateson pop up books!!! This just lit up major childhood memories. Pop up dollhouses used to be my and my sister's favorite thing, specially for me because sensorily I always liked the touch of cardboard better than the repurposed wood of our actual dollhouse. But I'll say its probably not a good idea to give children something that's as fragile as paper to play dolls with, all my pop ups are all taped up and folded over as well. (Also they were such a statement on children's literature in the 2000s i think you could do a video on them)
I really admired when I read the first threw or four of these to my kid that Angelina's house is very consistent. The floor plan is easy to see from book to book.
Love Angelina Ballerina! I grew up watching the 3D version of Angelina and I love it when they introduce real dancers in shining stars at the end of the show.
I am proud to say that Angelina Ballerina is one of the reasons I wanted to start ballet and still do it to this day as a career! Ty for making this deep dive! 💖💖
OH MY GOD. YES, PLEASE. I was in high school when this started showing on PBS but it was so pretty and charming, I fell in love. I despise the reboot. The music and watercolor backgrounds are untouchable.
oh my gosh perfect timing, i just named a pokemon after this and never saw much of this show. time to get educated on it!
uhh, there's a blank spot in the video at 11:44?? and you continue as if you were in the middle fo a sentence :(
uh oh thank you, I clipped out the blank spot now
I thought I hadn't watched the original Angelina Ballerina TV show but some of those clips definitely awakened some memories in me. I loved the book and had a playset as a kid since I did ballet classes and my mom is a former ballerina
LOVED this video! Angelina Ballerina is one of those shows that I didn't remember much about beyond the art style. Thank you for making this!! 💖
Love your video! Had all the books as a kid and my first magazine subscription was to the Angelina Ballerina Fairytales Magazine! Anyone else remember them? They came with soft toys characters and each edition came with clothes for the toys.
omg yes!!
i was 3 or 4, just a little kid from the Philippines watching the Next Steps whenever i caught it on TV. looking back, i believe the show indeed influenced my passion for dance, and i did try out ballet lessons for one summer a few years later heheh. i'm 18 now and my passion for dance kind of died a few years ago, but this show will always have a special place in my heart. i still come back to it sometimes...
I LOVED Angelina Ballerina as a kid. My favourite thing I owned was a book full of letters and it told a story through the different letters and they came out of the envelopes so you could actually read them. I'm sure I still have it at my parents' house. You've really made me want to rewatch the original series again!
Before I forget, there is one thing you didn’t mention in the “other media” section of the original Angelina. There was a series of magazines from Angelina ballerina and each issue came with a dress for the doll. I still have all of my magazines, all of the dresses that came with them and my Angelina and Alice dolls as well as the book about her birthday (I can send pictures if you want). I also used to have 2 vhs tapes 1 was the show must go on (with that irl dance instruction segment you mentioned) the other was about a play they were going to do where Angelina would have to hang from a single wire to play a fairy but she was scared of heights, that vhs also contained the boat race and Henry and Angelina on the fair episodes)
Omg the memories this unlocked... 💚😭💚
I must have been SO young because even with this, I don't remember the specifics.
I recognise the characters, but not the show, I recognise the pop-up book, but not the colours and details.
I cannot believe this has just been locked in my brain since I was a toddler.
These books and the Disney game toontown is how I got my internet atlas/nickname. How I adore Angelina. Congrats on the bachelors! Currently watching while doing my first year of college.
51:16, Wow it's funny that I have a My Fairy Princess Palace just sitting at my house. I grew up with the version of Angelina where she was 3D called Angelina Ballerina The Next Steps where you did mention it in the video. Watching it again made me realize that the show was a little dull but still sort of had the charm of the "classic". But I got to give them credit, the theme song is so catchy and I love the part with the na-na-na's, fun fact it reminded me of this show and found your channel.
I still have one of my Angelina Ballerina books from when I was little. She shaped my childhood and honestly still impacts me now as an adult. I still love ballet, classical music, British programming, and antique furniture. It’s cool to see how things from your childhood affect your adulthood. Thanks for the wonderful video 💜
Oh my god, that candy scene is burned into my memory! I'm glad I'm not the only one!
HOLY CRAP!!!
I was not expecting such a deep dive into a nostalgic tv show I remember watching so vividly!!!
P.S: Alice was always my fav-
I actually have the pop-up dancing school book!! This video was such a blast from the past, and brought back a lot of memories. Like you said, it was a little hard to play with like a doll house, but I remember I would open it up and stare at all the little details from time to time. My favorite room was the dressing room and rehearsal space, there were so many tiny and gorgeous details!
omg you just unlocked new memories. i finally realized why i drew so many ballerinas as a kid
SO nostalgic omg 🥹 me and my siblings had the cottage playset, some pieces for the stage playset, and most of the plush dolls. I think I still have Angelina, Alice, and Polly. I also had a book of Angelina Christmas recipes and crafts. I distinctly remember being unhappy with the 2009 reboot. My sister was pissed because Angelina didn’t dance en pointe.
As an Aussie, the wave of nostalgia when you pulled up the Australian movie - that pink case with the handle !!! I'd forgotten dvds looked like that for a bit
Also I love your videos so much! they are so well researched and engaging, thanks for all the hard work !!!
Wow Helen’s art is amazing 🤩 I didn’t grow up with this character but it’s so cozy! Ah, to draw for children’s books, the dream ❤
30 seconds in and I know this is gonna explode in views, subscribedd!!
AAA! I am so glad people are talking about the original show as it was the one i grew up with! I always loved the characters and art style. So, when my cousin showed me the 3d one i was so confused lol.
I remember watch this show so much as a kid that Not only did I own a Angelina doll but I also tried Ballet ONCE
The memory you brought back of the princess special omg!!! I remember going on a deep dive trying to find it and I couldn't!! I loved Angelina Ballerina!
There’s something so comforting about this show + books. I remember watching it as a little girl and I loved everything about it. Now I found the original shows on TH-cam and show my daughter 🥹
This was my childhood. I loved everything about the show and even got some of the books, either for my birthday or for Christmas, I love that you made a whole deep dive about the characters that I have grown up with.
The only exposure I ever had to Angelina Ballerina was The Next Steps on PBS kids when I was little. I don't remember caring for it very much (I really only watched it bc I liked the shows that were on before & after) but it was alright. I was never really into dance as a kid, so those parts really went over my head, but the storylines outside of that were decent
Angelina Ballerina was such a comfort for me as a child, and I'm revisiting it as an adult :) I love my comfort things so much, I always worry learning more about them might ruin them for me.. So your video was really well done and handled something special to me with a lot of care. Thank you for that
Angelina's iconic ballet bag was a huge reason why my shoulders suffered through school as i insisted on carrying all my books in a satchel like her.
yours are rarely a background video for me !! they are like my comfort videos and make me feel happy and chill 😊 please make another american girl doll video !🩷🩷
i audibly GASPED when i saw this video u dont know how much this means to me. angelina ballerina was my SHIT when i was a kid n i still fall asleep to it to this day bc of the asmr voice acting n the classical music n i've been watching SO many video essays recently so u hit ur target audience. i havent even watched it yet but thank you. thank you for ur service.
ohhhh MAN! i always said my first memory of being definitively gender diverse was when i was a kid was when i told my mom i wanted to be a ballerina astronaut pirate and have a moustache, tutu, eyepatch, and astronaut helmet. i realize now that angelina ballerina was indoctrinating me into the transgender agenda and sending me subliminal messages to take testosterone and be a fuzzy little mouse queen like her. thanks angelina. happy pride
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Wtf is this comment 😂😂
@@helmaschine1885 oh sorry.
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59:23 my art is going lovely~! thank you for keeping me company by talking about my favorite childhood book series
Different author but this brings back memories to the book Chrysanthemum which is really close to my heart as somebody with a last name that nobody can be pronounced and having to constantly deal with people just refusing to try no matter how I correct them
Please do Fancy Nancy next !! 🙏🏼😭 I love this !!
I was crazy about Angelina Ballerina as a little girl in the 90's!! My sisters and I all loved to dance, so it was easy to fall in love with a mouse that loved to dance. I received several of the books as presents and the gorgeous box that housed an Angelina doll, her friend Alice, little Henry and a lot of their costumes! I refused to let my mother get rid of them when I was in high school and later going off to college. I still have that box of toys and many of the books from my childhood.
Thank you for this lovely trip into the making my favorite childhood books!
The way I audibly just said Oh HELL yes when I saw this video
Angelina Ballerina's Sleepover Party was the only Angelina Ballerina thing I'd ever come across before this video. I had it when I was little and it was so fun!! There definitely were more pieces but I don't remember exactly what. Thanks for the video, this brought back really fond memories and it was so interesting to learn more about the production and other products :D
I had the big pop up book and i was OBSESSED with it. I played with it constantly with a bunch of of my toys as the figures. Its absolutely gorgeous and its full of detail in every little corner. We dont seem to have it anywhere and im devistated we might jave given it away
I got introduced to this series but the reboot they would do a lot of rerun on pbs kids and honestly I enjoyed it and I didn’t know it was a reboot
omgggg i love angelina ballerina so much! i rediscovered it on hulu a few years ago and i was so happy. i took ballet for about 5 or 6 years, and i initially started it because of angelina and barbie in the 12 dancing princesses. the music and the art style is so beautiful and nostalgic, thank you for this video!! i loved it
Sarah, you remind me of a nice and funny English teacher that i look forward to having the class to. Im always so happy when u post, it feels like christmas!
Thanks for this video, I remember Angelina from her AG days.
Also bc I love to play "spot who I've also got" with doll collections in the background: Abbey, Venus, Zooey, Vanessa, Lila, Josefina, Felicity 💕
something that has always stuck with me about the angelina books is the SMELL! as a little girl, part of the joy of reading them was when I would open the pages and just sniff the pages
as a ballet lover, I was obsessed with it as a kid and I still absolutely adore it 💕🩰
I would probably not have known about Angelina Ballerina had it not been for a certain DVD we had which featured two episodes of like 3 or 4 other shows.
There was one episode were Angelina is worried that the picture frame she made herself won’t be a good enough Christmas present for Miss Lily, so she tries to earn enough money to buy her a fancy hat instead but by the time she has enough money, someone else already bought the house, so Angelina feels really ashamed at the Christmas party but then Miss Lily opens her gift and is absolutely thrilled at the picture frame.
There was also one episode were Angelina is chosen to dance at the castle and most of the episode is her and Miss Lily struggling to get there. They made such a big deal about it, I didn’t realize that there were so many episodes were the royal family came to see them dance.
I still have my old Angelina vhs, this was shuch a nostalgia trip, I remember loving the boat episode!
I grew up on the books and next steps and loved the show, I was a very bossy kid like Angelina and when watching the show would act out everything she did and made my little sister play every other character. I vividly remember having the book Angelina and the royal wedding and an Angelina ballerina annual. I also remember meeting Angelina outside Tesco with my grandma
This show was so enchanting as a lil girl, i absolutely love the art style and those pics of the books made me remember reading them! Thank you for that! It’s a crime that kids nowadays r growing up with these simple and annoyingly dumb cartoons because the original is so calming to look at and u can tell it was made with care. Thank you for this video it really brought me back!
Wow! Thanks for all the hard work put into making this video! As a kid growing up in the naughties I remember watching both versions of the tv show on tv (although I watched the Dutch dub and I was surprised to hear them have a British accent in this video lol). I forgot about a lot of the characters, but this video brought back so many memories!
I’m so happy someone is talking about this show😭😭 I grew up watching it and having a little book but no one I know knows about it and it felt like I was just imagining it
omg, I loved Angelina Ballerina growing up. Angelina's star performance was the first live show I saw and I still have the DVD today. Thank you for making this, such a great watch.
Omg I grew up with The Next Steps and LOVED the theme song 😭 Its so good 🤗
Just seeing these images gives me so much nostlagia.
Hearing you talk about the episodes bring up so many memories I didn't know I had, *especially* that beat episode.
Angelina at the Fair (the book version especially) was one of my go to's as a kid. Funnily enough, I think I relate to Henry the most in the sense that I'm not really the type to go on rides. I recently rewatched some of the episodes to relive my childhood and I actually really enjoyed it! For some reason I'm now kind of drawing similarities between the OG show and the animated series of Anne of Green Gables. Great video!
I’m so glad I’m not the only one who vividly remembers these shows from their childhood. Such a good video too🩷
My mom got me so many of these movies and books when I was a little girl and took ballet for like 4 years. It’s a stark memory and a pretty good one, honestly.
Angelina ballerina the original show is the reason I was a ballerina for eight years 😭
I only ever watched Angelina Ballerina in french due to living in Quebec, it was always just on tv in french so I never quite understood what was going on but I have such a vivid memory of the bag/market storyline that it's burned into my brain years later.
Didn't expect this video on angelina ballerina to inform me that I'm not the only person who watched all of NBC's hannibal in 3 days. 10/10 video, loved the tangents on distribution companies.
Multiple dubs for different dialects in the same language happens more often then you might think. I live in the Dutch speaking part of Belgium and before 2015 we used to have our own dubs for various international cartoons while the Dutch had their own dubs (since 2015 they are trying cast people from both countries to make 1 dub but it doesn’t always sound right), this also happens to French a lot (European French dub vs Canadian French dub vs African French dub), Portugese (European Portuguese vs Brazilian Portugese), Spanish (European Spanish vs Latin American Spanish), Russian (mainland Russian vs Ukrainian Russian vs broader former Yugoslavian Russian), German (mainland german vs Austrian German vs Swiss German) and yes even English. Winx club is the most notorious example but in that case it wasn’t dialect related but distribution rights related so in English you had the 4kids dub, the Nickelodeon dub, the Cinelume or RAI English dub (Singapore English) and then there was an Australian dub as well I think? This has even happened to documentaries, walking with dinosaurs and walking with beasts for example had the original British dub narrated by Keneth Branagh but for the USA (and I assume Canada as well) they had a different narrator and after that yet an other version was made with a different narrator. These kinds of dubs happen because often one dialect has words that people who speak the other dialect cant understand or don’t have in their dialect or because a word that is innocent in one dialect can be a profanity or slang term in the other (for example in Dutch the word “poepen” means “to poop” but in Flemish it’s slang for “having s3x”, there is also a word in one dialect of Portuguese that is completely generic but in the other dialect it’s slang for gay men. For an other example in European Portuguese the word “tarado” means “crazy man” but in Brazilian Portuguese it means “a man who views women as s3x objects and can’t keep his hands to himself”)
I have a collection of Angelina Ballerina toys and I also collect pop-up paper doll houses. Those two books are on my list. This was great, thank you!
While both original books are true staples in my childhood, Angelina and The Princess was truly one of my FAVORITE books ever as a child. The girly/princess/ballet aesthetic was everything Baby Me loved. Those illustrations you showed are so ingrained in my brain and memories. It was so amazing to see them again
I grew up with the original Angelina in the early 2000s, this video brought back so many memories! As someone who is currently finishing a BFA myself (late, I started college in my mid-twenties lol), I never appreciated how beautiful the illustrations and OG animation were. I I had at least one doll as well, they were equally well crafted and I loved the creator talking about her knickers, I remember them being such a struggle for me to take on and off lol. I was always a tomboy and never aspired to be a ballerina, but I really loved the show. It was just so cozy and warm and peaceful, like Anne of Green Gables. I think I caught the PBS version later on when my younger siblings were watching it but I just wasn't interested. 3D animation can be gorgeous, but with kids shows they tend to use the medium more for ease than artistic value. I hope the series gets a proper reboot one day. This video reminded me that I have to get the books for my nieces, they'd love them.