Albert Barillé in 2007, photo: Michal Maňas, fr.wikipedia.org (accessed: October 26, 2020), CC BY 3.0.
Albert Barillé
, 1920 - 2009
Albert Barillé (Warsaw, 1920 – Neuilly-sur-Seine, 2009) was a French director, television creator and producer, screenwriter and cartoonist. In the early 1960s, he was in the United States, where he noticed the huge impact television had on children. After his return to France, he realised that French TV offered a rather indigestible content to children viewers. He decided to create entertainment for children that at the same time conveyed knowledge and opened young minds to further search for knowledge. In 1962 he founded Procidis, a company whose first creation was a puppet animated series aimed at children: Les Aventures de l’Ours Colargol [Colargol’s Adventures], the story of a little bear who wants to sing and travel the world but lacks the natural ability. In 1978, Procidis produced his most famous series Il était une fois... l’Homme [Once Upon a Time... Man] and then its six sequels (Space, Life, The Americas, The Discoverers, The Explorers, Planet Earth). He was also the creator of Shadoks and Aglaé et Sidonie. In addition, several projects were unsuccessful: in the 2000s, Albert Barillé designed a series on Greek mythology, as well as another part of the Once upon a time saga which would have been titled: Il était une fois... le progrès. He was also the author of medical documentaries, theater plays, and popularized philosophy.
Sources:
Wikipedia (accessed: October 26, 2020).
hellomaestro.fr (accessed: October 26, 2020).
Michel Doussot, "Il était une fois… Albert Barillé", blogpasblog.wordpress.com, published August 14, 2012 (accessed: October 26, 2020).
Bio prepared by Marta Pszczolińska, University of Warsaw, m.pszczolinska@al.uw.edu.pl
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