Red Caps (TV series)

Red Caps
GenreFantasy, animation
Country of originItaly, Finland
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes26
Production
Production companyCartoon-One
Original release
NetworkRai Gulp
Release11 December 2011 (2011-12-11)
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Red Caps is an Italian-Finnish animated television series produced by Cartoon-One in 2011. The series focuses on the adventures of a group of elves, and it is characterized by educational and moral purposes which gained to it the support of a number of institutions, including UNICEF and the Finnish Ministry of Environment.[1][2]

A film based on the series, titled Santa's Magic Crystal, was distributed in 2011 in 3D.[1][3] In the English-language version, Joe Carey played Santa Claus, Kyle E. Christensen as Yotan and David Dreisen as Grouch.[4]

  1. ^ a b Pietari Kääpä (24 April 2014). Ecology and Contemporary Nordic Cinemas: From Nation-building to Ecocosmopolitanism. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. pp. 101–3. ISBN 978-1-4411-4321-1.
  2. ^ Ryan Ball (August 22, 2008). "Cartoon One's Vampires, Buttercup, Caps Headed to MIP Jr". Animation Magazine. Retrieved February 2, 2016.
  3. ^ Hopewell, John; Keslassy, Elsa (February 11, 2011). "TF1 takes a shine to 'Santa's Magic Crystal'". Variety. Retrieved February 2, 2016.
  4. ^ Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. pp. 272–273. ISBN 978-1-4766-7293-9.