Kampung Boy is a Malaysian animated television series first broadcast in 1997. It is about the adventures of a young boy, Mat, and his life in a kampung. A main theme of the series is the contrast between the traditional rural way of life and the modern urban lifestyle. The series is adapted from the graphic novel The Kampung Boy, an autobiography of local cartoonist Lat.
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Kampung Boy is a Malaysian animated television series first broadcast in 1997. It is about the adventures of a young boy, Mat, and his life in a kampung. The series is adapted from the best-selling graphical novel The Kampung Boy, an autobiography of local cartoonist Lat. Comprising two seasons and 26 episodes, the series was first shown on Malaysian satellite television network Astro before being distributed to 60 other countries such as Canada and Germany. A main theme of the series is the contrast between the traditional rural way of life and the modern urban lifestyle. It raises the issue of modernization, proposing that new values and technologies should be carefully examined by a society before being accepted. It has won praises for its technical work and refreshing content, although questions have been raised by Southeast Asian audiences over its similarities with Western animation and its deviations from the local style of spoken English. Malaysian animation critics held up Kampung boy as the standard to which their country’s animators should aspire. One of the episodes won an Annecy Award, and academics in cultural studies regarded the series as a method of using modern technologies and cultural practices to preserve Malaysian history. The entire project took four years to complete; each episode cost approximately 350,000 United States dollars, partly funded by Measat Broadcast Network Systems, and four months to record in English and Bahasa Malaysia. The first 12 episodes were filmed in four months, and the first 12episodes were recorded in four to five months, with the final 12 episodes filmed in six to seven months, for a total of 26 episodes.
The episodes were produced by Matinee Entertainment in Los Angeles and World Sports and Entertainment in Kuala Lumpur, with a budget of around $100,000. The final episode was produced by Lacewood Studio in Ottawa, Canada, and aired on September 14, 1999 and ended on September 12, 2000. It was directed by Frank Saperstein and written by Norman Singer and Gerald Tripp, and produced by Bobdog Production in Malaysia and Bobdog Productions in the Philippines. The episode that won the Annecy award was the 12th and final episode of the season, which aired in September 2000. The last episode was aired on October 14, 2000, and it was the last episode to be broadcast in Malaysia before the series moved to Germany and the United States, where it was shown for two years. The show has been described as a “must-see” series for children of Malaysian parents and grandparents. The story is based on the graphic novel by Lat, which proved to be a commercial and critical success, establishing its author—Lat—as the \”most renowned cartoonist in Malaysia\”. The series promotes the village lifestyle as an environment that is fun and conducive to the development of a healthy and intelligent child. Lat was keen for a local animated series to promote local values among Malaysian children. It took two years of work to produce the first episode, which had taken two years to produce. Lat and Ananda Krishman, founder of Measet Broadcast Network systems, offered Lat financial support to start an animation project.
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