Chapter 101 little house on the prairie

Remember "Little House on the Prairie"?Among the TV series in the 1980s, it is the one I am most willing to revisit. "Little House on the Prairie" is adapted from a series of novels by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Laura Ingalls Wilder). Unlike other writers, she first trained her daughter to be a writer before she started writing. the road. It was 1922, she was fifty-five years old, and her daughter Rose won the "O. Henry Award" in this year, and she also had the idea of ​​writing.As a pioneer in the western United States, she has too many stories to write, such as her father, mother, hunting life in the forest, forest fires, Indians, long winter, sister's blindness, and she started working for the pioneers at the age of fifteen. A teaching career in a school run by posterity... Ten years later, "The Cabin in the Big Woods" was published, followed by "The Farm Boy" in 1933, "The Cabin on the Prairie" in 1935, "The Banks of Plum Creek" in 1937 ", "By the Silver Lake" in 1939... By 1949, she stopped writing because of the death of her husband Amanzo. She wrote a total of nine books - including "The First Four Years" which was found in her relics in 1971 .This set of books is called "The Cabin" series and is illustrated by Garth Williams (who also illustrated E.B. White's "The Little Mouse").

NBC (National Broadcasting Corporation) began planning to video this series in the early 1970s, and Michelle Langdon, who became famous for starring in western dramas, became the director and starring role of this series.Ten-year-old Melissa Gilbert was chosen from five hundred applicants to play Laura Ingalls Wilder. "Little House on the Prairie" premiered on September 11, 1974. Since then, it has been continuously filmed and broadcast for nine years, with a total of ten seasons and 207 episodes. "Little House on the Prairie" became the only TV series on NBC to squeeze into the top 30 ratings throughout the 1970s.

In the second year after the premiere of the NBC TV series, Japan's NHK produced a cartoon "Laura of the Prairie". day, very popular.Among the artists who participated in the production of "Laura of the Prairie", there is a name that will shine brightly in the future: Hayao Miyazaki. NBC's "Little House on the Grassland" was introduced to China in the 1980s and began broadcasting on CCTV in 1986. It later won the Best Translation Award at the 8th "Flying Awards" in 1988. On the back cover of "Popular Cinema" in December 1986, there is a jade photo of Melissa Gilbert.

The filmization of "Little House on the Prairie" has not stopped. In 2005, Disney released a 255-minute "Little House on the Prairie", which featured Laura Ingalls. The part of Wilder's original book about life on the Kansas prairie aired five times on Disney's ABC channel.And the newly established global Broadway production company, among the musicals launched in 2009, the first musical is "Little House on the Prairie" composed by Rachel Portman. But it's still the NBC version that I miss. In 1986, every weekend afternoon, "The Cabin on the Prairie" would come as scheduled. With a burst of exciting music, Laura ran to the wooden house on the top of the mountain among the wild flowers all over the mountain.It is still memorable.