Half of the people in Sweden see the animation of Donald Duck at Christmas Eve

To Hatsumodei in the New Year and returning to your parents' home in the Bon festival is a natural culture for Japanese people, but in Sweden, from 15 o'clock on December 24th, which is Christmas Eve, Donald Duck animation There is a culture of seeing. Why in Sweden I saw Donald Duck's animation on Christmas Eve, the reason was unexpected.

Sweden's bizarre tradition of watching Donald Duck (Kalle Anka) cartoons on Christmas Eve.
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Even when the average audience rating is 40 to 50%, it is 36% even when it was the lowest, Disneyl's "Christmas Eve" in Sweden as a national program is "From All of Us to All of YouAnimation that. At 15 o'clock when From All of Us to All of You is broadcasting, even cooking, work, even meals are interrupted and people in Sweden are glued to the TV.

"From All of Us to All of You" is known in Sweden as "Kalle Anka och hans vänner önskar God Jul" (Christmas celebrated by Donald Duck and a friend), and with Kalle Anka (Donald Duck) In other words, it refers to this animation, not a character. It is one of Swedish national broadcasting channelsSVT 1Kalle Anka, which began broadcasting for the first time in 1959, was recognized at a level that can be called as one of Swedish traditional national events, and Mr. Lena Kättström Höök, director of the northern ethnic museum, said "December 24 At 15 o'clock of the day the Swedish will do nothing except to see Kalle Anka, because Sweden literally "closed" state.

Some of the explosive popularity of Kalle Anka in Sweden can be confirmed from the following movie.

From All of Us to All of You: The Original Christmas Classic Part 1 - YouTube


I can understand why Kalle Anka gained popularity to become a national event by exploring the history of Swedish television. In 1959 when the broadcast of Kalle Anka began, the year television began to spread to households in Sweden. Sweden's television broadcast at the time had only one channel of "TV 1 (now SVT 1)" by national broadcasting, and the only day when Disney's animation can be seen is Christmas Eve, where TV 1 broadcast Disney's animation at once.

On TV 1, many Disney animations are broadcasted to Christmas Eve, among them popularity gained popularity with Christmas as the theme of Kalle Anka, and while broadcasting every year, "Watching Kalle Anka at Christmas Eve" It seems that it became a standard. Also, it was one of the reason Kalle Anka gained popularity as there were only entertainment on television, as most of the people lived in rural areas at the time.

ByStefan Perneborg

In the 1970s, there was a story to stop broadcasting Kalle Anka for political reasons, but as soon as it was published in the newspaper that it was scheduled to be canceled, complaints letters and telephone calls rushed to the TV station, and it was inevitable A situation occurred that we canceled the cancellation. Besides this, there is an anecdote that shows that Swedish love for Kalle Anka exceeds common sense level, and among themArne WeiseI can not let go of his story.

Weise was a national star of Sweden and served as Presenter of animation program introducing Kalle Anka from 1972 to 2002. Anime programs that introduce Kalle Anka are done in live broadcasting, but with the request of Weise 's "I want private time for Christmas," 1992 was scheduled to correspond with recorded broadcasting. However, about the fact that the program which was live broadcast every year is switched to recorded broadcast, "The presenter should appear on live broadcast on the program" in the newspaper, eventually the story of the recorded broadcast will be gone.

ByFrankie Fouganthin

Weise says, "Because of the stubborn temperament of Kalle Anka and the Swedish, I could not spend Christmas with my family for about 30 years, it is depressing before the start of the program, always exhausted after the end I was revealed later that I could not be a good dad to spend at my Christmas with my family. "

To be loved by Swedish citizens so far for Donald · Duck's animation, it is important that the television that began to spread to ordinary households at the start of broadcasting was one of a few entertainment for the public and that broadcasting channels There are reasons to come from the historical background, such as the concentration of viewers because there is only one, so its popularity will not weaken after taking root as a culture.

Although it is not Christmas, in Japan there is a tendency to watch NHK Kohaku singing fight, and even if it is broadcasted in the same format every year, it will be watching without thinking "This year is a little later". Kalle Anka in Sweden is also the same as Japanese NHK Kohaku Gymnastics fight, it is a program that enjoys style beauty and sees the season with eyes.