when i looked at this picture more closely there might be chance that it was banned because of papa smurf's.... interesting color scheme, that might be the reason why its lost, i think contacting the voice actors or anyone involved with the series would be our best bet, heres the imdb page if you need some people to contact
when i looked at this picture more closely there might be chance that it was banned because of papa smurf's.... interesting color scheme, that might be the reason why its lost, i think contacting the voice actors or anyone involved with the series would be our best bet, heres the imdb page if you need some people to contact
Not sure if the reason is true, I think the reason Papa Smurf's color scheme looked weird in the screenshots might be due to the age of the drawings. Mainly due to some of the episodes/film was originally painted in color and a few episodes aired in color before sticking with black and white. Then again it could be speculation since I never grew up in Belgium.
Maybe longtime Belgians who grew up in the 1960's might remember the shorts and the 1969 TV Special.
Update: I finally found a good quality video of one of the episodes of "The Smurfs" (1961) from a random German YouTube channel. The video is titled "Aus dem Leben der Schlümpfe von 1960 Folge 02 Das Ei. sehr rar".
I somehow stumbled upon this video randomly and was uploaded in March 12th 2018 by "Battis Nostalgie Channel".
The German dub was broadcasted in West Germany in 1969.
For those that never seen the original comic story. Here's a screenshot from Spirou 1460" which contains the original comic from April 7, 1966. Found from cgccomics.com forum.