On April 19, 1986, Spanish Television broadcast the last episode of the series ‘David the Dwarf’, that historical ‘Mountain of Beyond’, whose title is not so good. Actually, David and his wife Lisa The consoling Swift said goodbye to the fox forever and turned into cherry blossoms, which is a pretty poetic way of saying they’re dead. This tragic moment, viewed on YouTube today, is still heartbreaking, but it was devastating for a generation of sensitive viewers born in 1986, between the early ’70s and the early ’80s. Seas of tears, cries of misunderstanding, and hard-to-manage emotional trauma, from an equivalent—or greater—death Mufasa, mother of Bambi or mother of lionThe show’s creator, producer Claudio Biern Boyd, eventually admitted that perhaps it was “wrong” for David and Lisa to die.
Biern Boyd, who died this Monday in Barcelona at the age of 81, He leaves a legacy not only to the weeping emotional ecologists of ‘Gnome David’, but also to some of the animated series that have shaped the world. emotional memory He is one of the best of that generation who grew up in the 80s: his production company, BRB Internacional, is also ‘In Willy Fog’s World’ and ‘D’Artacán and the Three Muskehounds’. Being of a certain age and not remembering, stamped with fire, not the contagious tunes of their songs, “I’m seven times stronger than you and I’m fasting”, “one two and three…” or perhaps best of all, “80 days 80, 80 nothing more ‘ is sung in the pristine voice of Mocedades.
Born in Palma in 1940, Biern Boyd grew up in Barcelona, the son of a Catalan of French and Scottish descent. “Spanish Walt Disney” Although he freely admitted that he never knew how to draw. He studied Law at Deusto and Barcelona and started professionally in the world of marketing. After marketing dolls to promote North American cartoons, she made a huge splash in 1972 with Tito Basto and José Rodríguez. BRB International company, As a sales and rights management agency for Hanna-Barbera (‘Tom and Jerry’, ‘El Oso Yogi’…) and TV series like ‘Marco’, ‘Maya the Bee’ and ‘Vickie the Viking’. A little joke. There, as they say, it all started: Biern Boyd was a kind of thin nose, and he soon knew how to perceive the boyish pleasures of time.thus, in 1980 he began the production and distribution of his own animated series.
Co-productions with Japan
The pioneer is little remembered today ‘Ruy, little Cid’is about the childhood of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, a co-production with Japanese company Nippon Animation, which was responsible for the technical and artistic development of some of the major projects designed by Biern Boyd and his company. “You had a cartoonist over there in Spain, and there was no industry there. One of them was 13 hours of animation where all the drawing and colors were done by hand. Those who knew and could do it were the Japanese with a strong industry,” explains Biern Boyd in an interview published in the ‘Ara’ newspaper a little over a year ago. A worthwhile feature film by Toni García Updated D’Artacán’s legacy.
Originally Nippon Animation was a company specializing in adapting western scripts and novels into anime, responsible for big hits like ‘Heidi’, ‘Marco’, ‘Tallac Forest’ or ‘Misha the Bear’, so the formula seemed perfect. And this was: Broken animators and great texts inspired by great literary classics. Biern Boyd “Always matters”, assuring that the web “is the script” for “Serielizados”. And are there any better screenwriters than him? Alexandre Dumas, Emilio Salgari or Jules Verne?
Biern Boyd co-produced with Nippon Animation ‘D’Artachan and the Three Musketeers’ and ‘Around the World with Willy Fog’. Both were extremely successful in their broadcasts on Spanish Television in 1982 and 1984 respectively. In 1986 BRB premiered ‘David el gnomo’, a co-production with l.Canadian Sycamore and Taiwanese Wang Film Productionsnot only did this leave a deep uproar (already relevant) in the Spanish audience, but also many countries that buy, including the United States. Meanwhile, BRB had to cut three scenes from the show, especially the ones where Lisa is breastfeeding her twins; Her breasts were obviously very large.
Non-violent values
“I try to have all my series have a message, kids get value. In David’s case it was ecology, respect for nature; Loyalty, friendship in D’Artacán. I always try to make sure there’s something underneath everything,” Biern Boyd told EFE agency on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of ‘David the gnome’ in 2010. In the interview with ‘Ara’, the producer drew attention to another feature of the DNA of the drama: “There is no violence. I’m banned! What would happen if there was action? It’s something you want, but no serious injury or blood.” As he once said, “Two dogs dueling with swords is pure fantasy by definition”. It is difficult, perhaps delightfully naive, to describe better the way we understand the world and audiovisual fiction for children today.
In addition to the world of animation and audiovisual production, Biern Boyd Spanish another of his passions Maybe he was the one who gave her the most trouble. The recognizable ‘gentleman’ of the Sarrià box, smiling and courteous, refined and cultured, always with a calm demeanor, he was director of the blue and white club at different levels, became vice president and even elected president in 2006, the playful charisma of canner Daniel Sánchez Llibre even if he couldn’t. Biern Boyd purposely said, “If you’re a budgie, you were born to suffer, we’re masochists and we carry that in our DNA.” He would have turned 82 in November..