Lucy of the Southern Rainbow
Lucy in Australia (Japanese南 の 虹 の ルーシー, Minami no Niji no Rushi, literally: " Lucy from the rainbow of the South" ) is the anime adaptation of the novel Southern Rainbow Australian author Phyllis Piddington. The series was produced in 1982 by Nippon Animation as part of the series World Masterpiece Theater. It tells the story of seven -year-old Lucy May Poppel, who emigrated in the 19th century with her family from England to Australia.
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The Farmer Family Poppel leaves like many other their native England because you were promised farm land on the new continent of Australia. But arrived in South Australia, the Poppels need to realize that life is not as easy there as they are accustomed: The cities are still under construction, the hinterland is largely undeveloped and not presumptuous, which is why most immigrants also no country can be assigned.
Lucy, the protagonist, the concerns of family care first bit. With her older sister Kate and her boyfriend Billy the animal loving girl explores the new home and making not only acquaintance with new animal species, but also with the aborigines of Australia. As there is no hope to get in the foreseeable future own farm, the father brought from England sold the prefab to the wealthy but obnoxious Mr. Pettiwell. Lucy and her family move to a small cottage in the city of Adelaide along with Dr. Dayton, a drunken doctor but is soon brought by the Poppels to reason. There they set up and explore the new land piece by piece.
The Adventures of Lucy have no end, as found, for example, one day an orphaned Dingo puppies, they "Little " affectionately calls and rears. For the Poppels plunges silver lining on the horizon, as the father of a man gets the offer to buy the farm, but a misfortune ensures that it does not come to that.
Three years have passed and not only the lives of Poppels who have moved to a bigger house, but the whole of Australia has changed: from Adelaide a real city has become, on the uninhabited coast at which the immigrants once landed, is a large port created. Arthur Poppel, Lucy's father, it has now given up trying to become a farmer again. He instead works in road and is in the evening when he comes home, the alcohol out. The family gets into more and more money worries, so that she sees herself forced to Lucy's beloved sheep snowflake for sale. From grief over this loss confused, Lucy runs ahead of a runaway carriage and remains lying unconscious on the road, where she picks up the rich Mr. Princeton and takes her home. Although Lucy comes back soon too, but can not remember what it's called or where their family comes from yourself. Sylvia Princeton, whose own daughter died years ago, is soon decided to include the strange girl permanently and gives it even the name of her dead child: Emily. The Poppels looking Meanwhile feverishly for Lucy, but only Little, the faithful dingo, it is able to find them and cause them to remember again. The Princetons are now but very fond of Lucy and they make her father Arthur a farm in view when it is ready, leave them to his daughter up for adoption. However, Lucy's parents want to know anything. When Lucy learns of this offer, she decides with a heavy heart to leave her family and live in Princeton, so that the dream of her father still can come true. Moved by their sacrifice and tormented by remorse, helps Mr. Princeton Lucy's father at the end to his own piece of farmland - without insisting on adoption. So the family Poppel moves to some heavy, exciting years in Australia towards rainbow to finally live as they had intended from the beginning.
Historical Background
Australia was first used by the British Government as a penal colony, to empty the overcrowded prisons. The continent was first colonized by forced laborers, of whom not a few uncomfortable political prisoners who had expressed criticism of the British Crown. 1829 wrote Edward Gibbin Wakefielt while he was in England in detention, several letters on the subject of "free, systematic colonization ", which were published in daily newspapers. In it he described that the land in Australia should not be distributed free to the settlers, but that immigrants should work in the colonies, with the prospect of being able to buy later country. In this case, the money should be used from the sale of the country for a shipping point for more settlers to Australia and that no day laborers and vagrants, but skilled workers that would propel the economy even further. 1834 everything was under way to implement Wakefield's theory into practice. The new colony was named after the wife of William IV: Adelaide. Suitable workers - mostly adult men and women under thirty - were given free ship passages. Even many large companies such as the South Australian Company made in Australia money, because who bought 32 acres of farmland, this was 4000 square meters of land in the city. (Even Mr. Pettiwell and Mr. Princeton will have their assets increasingly so. )
In the story, Lucy, Kate and Billy make a trip to the beach for so-called Flinders Bay which it really is. The bay is named after Captain Matthew Flinders, the 1802 Australian south coast explored and finally ended up where later Adelaide was built.
Even the surveyor Colonel Light is mentioned frequently, the - also the city of Adelaide planned - like Mr. Poppel said his children. All this corresponds to the facts, even as Arthur Poppel learns to his astonishment that Adelaide was built exactly according Lights plans and there were no discrepancies. Light sailed to South Australia in 1835 in order to take care of building the city. Only four years later, on October 6, 1839, he died there of tuberculosis. Even Lucy Mays neighbor who was personally with Colonel Light on an expedition in the backcountry, dies of an unknown illness.
Production and publication
The series was produced in 1982 by Studio Nippon Animation and directed by Hiroshi Saitō as part of the series World Masterpiece Theater. The character design designed Jun'ichi Seki and artistic director was Taisaburō Abe. The series was aired from 10 January 1982 to 26 December 1982 Fuji TV.
The German premiere took place in the summer of 1991 at Tele 5 The anime was also, among others, into Spanish, Italian, French, Arabic and translated Polish.
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Music
The music of the series was composed by Koichi Sakata. Biasing song is Niji ni naritai (虹 に なり たい) by Sumiko Yamagata, the guy was backed by Mori ni Oide (森 へ おいで) of Sumiko Yamagata.