History

It was created for television

Television

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 by the Croatia

Croatia

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n animator Zlatko Grgić

Zlatko Grgic

Zlatko Grgić was a Croatian animator who emigrated to Canada in the late 1960s.Born in Zagreb, in the former republic of Yugoslavia, Grgic was nominated for the Academy Award for Animated Short Film at the 52nd Academy Awards for his 1979 film Dream Doll, produced by Bob Godfrey.Grgic created the...

 at the Zagreb Film

Zagreb Film

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 studio, Croatia. 59 episodes of the cartoon were made between 1967 and 1974.

It has been shown in subsequent years in several countries beside the former Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia

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, including Denmark

Denmark

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, Finland

Finland

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, Italy

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, the Netherlands

Netherlands

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, Norway

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, Portugal

Portugal

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, Sweden

Sweden

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, Spain

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, Iran

Iran

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, Greece

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, Canada

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 and Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

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. It was also shown in the United States

United States

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 in the 1980s on Pinwheel as well as on the ABC

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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 in Australia.

A CGI

Computer-generated imagery

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 revival was planned in the late 1990s and was completed in 2007.

Credits

• Production Company: Zagreb / Windrose-Hamburg for WWF-Cologne
• Production Supervisor: Z. Pavičić
• Scripts: Zlatko Grgić, Boris Kolar, Ante Zaninović
• Directors: Zlatko Grgić, Boris Kolar, Ante Zaninović
• Animators: Zlatko Grgić, Boris Kolar, Ante Zaninović, T. Paus, L. Fabiani, N. Petrick, S. Drobnić
• Backgrounds: Zlatko Bourek, Branko Varadin, Srdjan Matić
• Camera: I. Hercigonja
• Music: Tomica Simović
• Music Supervisor: T. Brunšmid
• Sound: M. Presil
• Designers: Zlatko Grgić, Boris Kolar, Ante Zaninović

Season 1

• Inventor of Shoes
• Hannibal's Alps
• The Rise and Fall of Horatio
• Flying Fabian
• Martin at the Top
• On Mouse and Watches
• Birthday Story
• Happiness for Two
• Wicked Aunts
• Victor's Egg-Machine
• Windy Story
• Starry Quartet

Season 2

• Alfred the Night Guard
• Bim-Bum
• Miraculous Cake
• Animal Doctor
• Professor Balthasar's Rainbow
• Figaro Hop
• Silvestar the Tailor
• Icy Hot
• Hairless Dolls
• Cloudy Story
• Clumsiness Issues
• Zvonko from the Belltower
• The Largest Snowman

Season 3

• Amadeus's Ears
• Flower Drama
• The Problem with Piracy
• Lion's Troubles
• Maxol
• Fu-Fu the Monster
• Cloudy with Bickering
• Peppino Cicerone
• Charlie the Penguin
• Miss Chilopoda Barefoot
• Play for Mirko
• Fireman Story
• Happy Bridge

Season 4

• Balthazar's Love
• Balthazar's Watch
• Spiritual Story
• Two Cylinders
• Hik
• Lost Rabbit
• Playing the Hunter
• Daniel the Clown
• Kroko the Cobbler
• Opera Star
• Axel the Penguin
• Work is Work
• Bird
• Sport Life
• Champion
• Street Musicians
• Big Snore
• Violeta and Franc
• Windmill
• Air

External links

• EOFFTV: Production information and list of episodes (episode names in Croatian)
• Detailed list of all series: http://www.zagrebfilm.hr/baltazar_list_e.asp